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Snippet: marking your Germans

by | Jan 10, 2022 | General | 4 comments

Adding umlauts and the like This is definitely going to be snippet week around The Legal Genealogist. I are a student!! With the last-last minute decision of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy to go virtual, I was able to snag a seat in Warren Bittner’s Gothic...

Coming up: January-February

by | Jan 5, 2022 | General | 0 comments

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist has done a credible job, these past few weeks, of looking backward. But … sigh… I’ve been a bit remiss in the other direction. So it’s time, and past time, now, to look forward. To invite you along,...

Rules of my road: 2022

by | Jan 4, 2022 | General | 2 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 2022!

by | Jan 1, 2022 | General | 26 comments

And a BIG anniversary here at TLG Ten 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...

The Official TLG 2021 Thank You List

by | Dec 31, 2021 | General | 0 comments

To the hosts and more of 2021 It’s hard to know just how to feel as this crazy crazy year of 2021 draws finally to a close. On one hand, The Legal Genealogist can’t help but glance at the calendar with the usual reaction: It isn’t really already…? How can...

2021 top posts: all time

by | Dec 29, 2021 | General | 0 comments

Atop the all-time leaderboard The Legal Genealogist is wrapping up a tenth year of blogging here as December winds to a close, and in that time has written more than 2,900 posts that have been viewed, in the aggregate, by millions of visitors who’ve left more...

2021 top posts

by | Dec 28, 2021 | General | 0 comments

The Legal Genealogist’s top posts for 2021 If anyone had posed the question even an hour ago — what were the top 10 posts at The Legal Genealogist in 2021? — the answer would have been exactly what it was one year ago. The answer would’ve been:...

The returns of the 2021 season

by | Dec 27, 2021 | General | 1 comment

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...