by Judy G. Russell | Feb 4, 2025 | General |
GRIP in person and virtual Yeah, right, oops. The Legal Genealogist goofed. The email that went out about GRIP registration was correct except… The in-person week is at the University of Pittsburgh, not at LaRoche University. So here’s the scoop, stated...
by Judy G. Russell | Feb 4, 2025 | General |
Registration opens Tuesday, February 4 An awful lot of folks in the genealogical community had long sad faces last week. Watching online all week along as people who shared their interests in learning new things were doing just that at the 2025 Salt Lake Institute of...
by Judy G. Russell | Feb 1, 2025 | General |
Upcoming presentations It’s what? February already??? Yes it sure is, and The Legal Genealogist is sprinting into the new month with lots of upcoming events. As always, there’s fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you’re invited to come along, to...
by Judy G. Russell | Jan 20, 2025 | General |
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...
by Judy G. Russell | Jan 15, 2025 | General |
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...
by Judy G. Russell | Jan 4, 2025 | General |
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...
by Judy G. Russell | Jan 3, 2025 | General |
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...
by Judy G. Russell | Jan 1, 2025 | General |
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...
by Judy G. Russell | Dec 31, 2024 | General |
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...
by Judy G. Russell | Dec 29, 2024 | General |
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...