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Coming up: October-November 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist usually tries, hard, to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events. This month The Legal Genealogist is very late with this post. I do however have a really good excuse. I finally got to take...

Year 23… never forget…

23 years ago today. It has been 23 years. That’s 276 months. 8,401 days. 201,624 hours. 12,097,440 minutes. 725,846,400 seconds. Enough for a lifetime of memories. Memories that some of us can never forget. Memories that others never got the chance to make....

The order of things…

A correction Sigh… even proofreading isn’t always enough. The words may be right, but the order has to be right too. So let’s try one more time for these upcoming events in October: • CORRECTION: Friday, 18 October, 9:50 a.m. EDT: The Virginia...
Coming up: September-October 2024

Coming up: September-October 2024

Upcoming presentations How is it possible that it’s already Labor Day here in the United States? It seems like yesterday it was the Fourth of July and the day before yesterday was New Year’s Day and… Tempus fugit, for sure. And then some! So…...
The inevitability of change

The inevitability of change

New email system Sigh… The Legal Genealogist doesn’t like change any more than anyone else does. However… change is inevitable, especially when an email service decides to stop serving, and so there’s a change today in the email system for blog...

NARA NYC closing

Records moving to Philadelphia and Kansas City The Legal Genealogist candidly admits to having been really distracted from genealogy news in the past few months. Between the summer institute season and family gatherings and the ordinary affairs of life, I’ve not...

Coming up: August-September 2024

Upcoming presentations Oh, man, is this summer speeding by fast. The last of the summer genealogy institutes (summer camp for family historians!) is already underway this week as the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) is enthralling lucky students at...

July 4, 2024

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...

Today’s the day!

Registration to close for GRIP Virtual Dozens and dozens of genealogists are getting ready to be happy campers. In this year’s first virtual summer-camp-for-genealogists, that is. The virtual week of the GRIP Genealogy Institute opens in just 10 days — it...

Coming up: June-July 2024

Upcoming presentations As June gets off to a start, it marks as always the start of the summer institute season. GRIP’s virtual session, then MAAGI’s hybrid courses, then GRIP’s in-person session, then… Not to mention the individual talks for...