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Honoring the dreamer

by | Jan 20, 2025 | General | 0 comments

Continuing the dream Today, in the United States, it is a federal holiday to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we remember the dreamer. And we continue to work towards the dream. “I have a dream,” he said, on August 28, 1963, a...

That ticking clock…

by | Jan 15, 2025 | General | 1 comment

One last chance for SLIG 2025 classes The clock is ticking fast for one last chance to take advantage of one of the best educational opportunities genealogy has to offer. It’s what The Legal Genealogist calls winter camp for genealogists1 — otherwise known...

Coming up: January-February 2025

by | Jan 4, 2025 | General | 1 comment

Upcoming presentations And we’re off! Yes, off to a fast start to this new year here at The Legal Genealogist — ramping up for 2025. As always, there’s fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you’re invited to come along, to the extent...

Rules of my road: 2025

by | Jan 3, 2025 | General | 3 comments

Not legal advice! So many reader questions come in that are beyond what The Legal Genealogist can answer in this blog, because they’re asking for legal advice. Um… that’s not what this blog is all about. Not what this blog can do. It’s...

Happy New Year 2025

by | Jan 1, 2025 | General | 7 comments

Thirteen years and counting… Thirteen years ago today, on the first of January 2012, the very first post appeared here at The Legal Genealogist. It explained that: My purpose in writing The Legal Genealogist is, in part, to help folks understand the often arcane and...

Resolved and resolved 2024!

by | Dec 31, 2024 | General | 7 comments

A win in 2024, and on to 2025 It was just a year ago when The Legal Genealogist resolved to take that trip. To go to Germany in 2024 and walk in the footsteps of my German ancestors. It’s a trip that was supposed to have taken place a while back. I’d...

The Official TLG 2024 Thank You List

by | Dec 29, 2024 | General | 1 comment

To the hosts and more of 2024 Wait just a minute here. Hold on. It isn’t really already…? How can it be…? Seriously…? Can it really be the last weekend of 2024? Yep. Here we are again, coming up fast on the end of another busy year, and a time to step up and...

The returns of the 2024 season

by | Dec 27, 2024 | General | 3 comments

What to do with the returns cash Okay. Let’s all admit it. Come on. Say it out loud and get it over with. Here… The Legal Genealogist will go first: Not everything we got for a holiday gift was a hit. Yep, folks, that soap-on-a-rope just isn’t quite...

About those Holidays and Christmases…

by | Dec 23, 2024 | General | 2 comments

Getting into the spirit Where does a genealogist look for the holiday spirit — the Christmas spirit — in these last frantic days before we all rush off to try to make more family memories? How about … in genealogical records? Really. Okay, okay, so...