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The returns of the 2024 season

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...

About those Holidays and Christmases…

Getting into the spirit Where does a genealogist look for the holiday spirit — the Christmas spirit — in these last frantic days before we all rush off to try to make more family memories? How about … in genealogical records? Really. Okay, okay, so...

Choosing number 40

Nominations due for National Genealogy Hall of Fame Thirty nine times, the genealogical community has honored one of our best, one that we’ve lost. Thirty nine times, the focus has been on someone who has made contributions to the field of genealogy that were of...

The best deal in genealogy

Legacy Family Tree Webinars sale ends tomorrow It’s one of the best deals in genealogy. A total of 2,312 webinars (as of this morning). From 449 speakers. With handouts covering 9,040 pages. Including — ahem — 40 from The Legal Genealogist, covering...

Coming up: December 2024-January 2025

Upcoming presentations It’s beginning to look a lot like … the end of the year. Yep, things are winding down a bit for 2024 here at The Legal Genealogist — and ramping up for 2025. So here’s a look at fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and...

Veteran’s Day 2024

Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 — one hundred and six years ago today — the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, and throughout the world, those...

Coming up: November-December 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist tries to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events. But The Legal Genealogist was still late this month — and owes thanks to both the Bucks County Genealogical Society and the Family...

Coming up: October-November 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist usually tries, hard, to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events. This month The Legal Genealogist is very late with this post. I do however have a really good excuse. I finally got to take...