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Getting ready for Friday

Ancestry launches ED finder tool It’s an impressive piece of work — and it’s going to save the bacon of a lot of otherwise frustrated genealogists (including The Legal Genealogist, for sure) in just a few days. Ancestry has launched an enumeration...

Catching up

History for Ukraine videos online The History for Ukraine event this past weekend was simply amazing, and The Legal Genealogist is so proud to have been able to contribute a small part to its success. In all, 48 talks on topics ranging from why we do family history to...

Today. Now. For Ukraine.

History for Ukraine underway online It’s today. It’s now. It’s for the relief of the people of Ukraine. It’s History for Ukraine, and it’s going on now, online. You can join in via the History for Ukraine YouTube channel (the image below...

History for Ukraine

Speaking out to raise relief funds It’s one of the greatest frustrations of modern times: knowing so much about what’s going on in the world… and being able to do so little about it. And, like much of the world, The Legal Genealogist has been feeling...

On St. Patrick’s Day…

Did ads for workers really say that? It’s March 17 here in the United States. It is, of course, St. Patrick’s Day. When, according to the memes at least, everybody is Irish… Except the Scots. They stay Scots. No arguments there. So… despite the...

IGHR 2022 registration opens Saturday!

You snooze, you lose There are just four days to go. Four days to get ready. Four days until Saturday rolls around. Which is The Day not to sleep in if you’re hoping to get in on an unparalleled opportunity for genealogical education and fun — otherwise...

NGS and its grand SLAM

Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, March 15 It’s one of the lead-off events of the 2022 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, Our American Mosaic. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be free. And the deadline for being part of it is coming...

RootsTech Day 1 snippets

Talking heads and phone scans In case there’s a genealogist anywhere in the world who’s been under a rock for the past few months, yes, RootsTech 2022 did kick off yesterday as a totally virtual — and totally free — online conference. As it is...

Coming up: March-April

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist has a busy schedule coming up. And I absolutely want to invite you along, to the extent possible, on the trip… Here’s an overview of what’s coming up in March, and we’ll go ahead and take a peek at...

Taking a stand

… at this moment in history No words are needed. Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Taking a stand,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 24 Feb 2022). (Image: Nicholas Raymond, Ukraine Grunge Flag, CC BY...