The return of the light: 2021
Making it through another tough year Yesterday was the last 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century. And it was, of course, the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of this crazy mixed-up pivot-on-a-dime pandemic-ridden year here in the northern hemisphere: “On the...A change of plans
Tonight’s BCG webinar “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” So said Robert Burns in his poem “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785.” And so echoes The Legal Genealogist here at the close of...Eighty years ago today
The attack on Pearl Harbor There is no-one alive today in The Legal Genealogist’s family who personally remembers that day, eighty years ago today. My grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles old enough to have a personal recollection of that day have all passed...Sluby Scholarship for 2023
Application deadline announced It’s no secret that the methodology for African American research has its own twists and turns on top of all the usual methodological complications of any genealogical research. That’s part of the reason why the African...On GivingTuesday…
… consider your genealogical society… The Legal Genealogist has no idea where the whole GivingTuesday thing began. Yes, even Wikipedia says it got its start in 2012 as “the brainchild of Henry Timms at the 92nd Street Y in New York” with a “co-founding...Veterans Day 2021
Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 — one hundred and three years ago today — the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, and throughout the...Choosing number 37
Nominations sought for NGS Hall of Fame Thirty six times, the genealogical community has honored one of our best, one that we’ve lost. Thirty six times, the focus has been on someone who has made contributions to the field of genealogy that were of lasting...Recharging batteries
Yep… ran away from home Yes, the pages of The Legal Genealogist blog have been dark for days. No, The Legal Genealogist hasn’t been sleeping on the job. Sometimes ya just gotta recharge the batteries. And with due precautions, fully-vaccinated sisters, and...His and hers
A matter of time It’s no secret that, during much of history, women — and particularly married women — have been disadvantaged by the law. The British common law system followed in most of the English colonies around the world and incorporated into...Subscribe by Email
