For luck
Looking to the New Year As long as it isn’t fatal, and it’s supposed to bring good luck for the New Year, The Legal Genealogist is gonna try it. After a year like this one, even if I hate it, I’ll do it or eat it or wear it. Anything for luck. Which...The Legal Genealogist’s Christmas Wish 2020
Merry Christmas! From The Legal Genealogist to all those who have so enriched my life in 2020… I wish you the merriest of Christmases! DisclaimerTerms and conditions may apply. Timely delivery of wishes from this server through the Internet is not guaranteed....The laws of Christmas: 2020 reprise
It wasn’t always a holiday Here in the holiday season of this crazy year of 2020, The Legal Genealogist is trying to hang on to as many holiday traditions as possible. Which, given the pandemic and travel limits and the like, isn’t all that much. But at...The return of the light
Every day from here on It is, officially, the shortest day of the year 2020. Today, December 21, is the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. As NASA’s “What’s Up – December 2020” podcast explains, “On the December solstice, the Sun reaches its...Ancestry sued for yearbooks
Case filed in California Where’s the line between making material available for genealogical research, and using private data for commercial gain? A lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco on Monday may help define the answer to that question. The case,...Giving Tuesday from NYG&B
Four free lectures tomorrow It’s been a tough year for everybody, and that includes the societies that The Legal Genealogist and the entire genealogical community all depend on to help preserve access to records, produce quality journals, and more. What’s...Giving thanks, 2020 style
From one to 76 It is Thanksgiving Day here in the United States. A special day of thanks has been part of the national tradition here since the first President, George Washington, responded to a call by Congress and designated Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “day of...Seven score and 17 years ago
Words echoing down the years The date was November 19, 1863. The place, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. And the speaker, Abraham Lincoln. Words that have echoed down the years and echo still today… as powerful and necessary today as they were seven score and 17 years...2020’s hardest decision
Hunkering down for the holidays It’s not quite two weeks to Thanksgiving here in the United States (November 26 this year). And just six weeks — exactly — to Christmas Day. Times when The Legal Genealogist traditionally gets together in joy with as...Subscribe by Email
