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Year 20… never forget…

20 years later For 20 years, it has sat close at hand. It’s not much to look at. An old plastic film canister, the kind that 35mm film used to come in, back in the day. Film of the kind I had in my pocket that day in September 2011 when my friend Toni asked me...

NARA invites comments

FY2022-26 Strategic Plan open for comments So… The Legal Genealogist just finished sitting in on the one-hour virtual Town Hall of the U.S. National Archives as its staff sought to explain and seek input on its strategic plan for the fiscal years 2022 through...

Forensic ooops!

About those SLIG courses… An oops in the post about the SLIG courses. The Forensic Genealogy course being taught in the 2022 SLIG Academy in two sections is an all-new Beyond Fundamentals: Hands-on Forensic Genealogy, and not the Fundamentals course. Take note,...

SLIG 2022 registration now open

Genealogy’s winter camp for genealogists Somehow, the opening bell didn’t ring for The Legal Genealogist. Probably because I’m still up to my eyebrows in other institute classes this summer, but I managed to miss the opening of registration for the...

Snippets 2021 v.6

Planned downtime at MyHeritage Our new virtual reality has had its up sides and its down sides. On the up side few events have been cancelled. On the down side even more events have been scheduled. Which means it’s a busy time around The Legal Genealogist, with...

Snippets 2021 v.4

A don’t-miss webinar… It’s institute season here at The Legal Genealogist — a busy time, indeed. When I’m not teaching genealogy courses in one institute, I’m taking a course at another (this will be a full week of advanced DNA with...

Snippets 2021 v.3

About those guardians… It’s institute season here at The Legal Genealogist — which means busy times! When I’m not teaching genealogy courses in one institute, I’m doing it at another, or at a conference, like today and tomorrow in...

Snippets 2021 v.2

RootsTech 2022 stays virtual The Legal Genealogist is now fully into institute season — teaching at genealogical institutes all over. Today, it’s one of my favorites — the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI). On tough topics like...

Snippets 2021 v.1

When time is short The Legal Genealogist loves institute season. Teaching at genealogical institutes is rewarding and challenging and exhilarating… and exhausting. And as we ramp up in this institute season, it leaves much less time for other things like writing...