Veteran’s Day 2020
Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 — one hundred and two years ago today — the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, and throughout the...Vote 2020!
Get out and vote! It’s election day 2020 in the United States. And here’s The Legal Genealogist’s #1 Election Day rule: It’s not over until ALL votes are counted. Seriously… if you didn’t vote, I’m not going to listen for one...Tarheel thanks
NCGS Member Appreciation Day We sometimes forget, as genealogists, just what goodies we get when we join the genealogical societies in the areas where we live or where our ancestors came from. Things like — in one case in particular — a subscription to a...Choosing number 36
Nominations sought for NGS Hall of Fame Thirty five times, the genealogical community has honored one of our best, one that we’ve lost. Thirty five times, the focus has been on someone who has made contributions to the field of genealogy that were of lasting...Coming up soon…
Zoom along with TLG A long time faithful reader of The Legal Genealogist was Not Happy. This past weekend, I was off spending some fun time with the Minnesota Genealogical Society and the attendees of their 2020 North Star Genealogy Conference — all virtually of...Please…
Just do it The Legal Genealogist doesn’t care what your affiliation is. Or even who you’re rooting for in the baseball playoffs — even though my team is playing. I just want us all to make it through this pandemic and come out the other side healthy...RIP RBG
The loss of a legal champion From a Rutgers Law alum to a Rutgers Law prof, thank you for your tireless efforts on behalf of the rule of law. To quote Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.: “Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court...Permissions and the tombstone photo
Things to consider before publishing Reader Robert is writing a book on his family history that will be self-published. “I seriously doubt if I will sell more than 100 copies – there’s only so many family, friends and neighbors,” he writes. But he has a...Year 19… never forget…
19 years later… There was a moment when it appeared that it wouldn’t happen. That, for the first time in all these years, the lights wouldn’t shine. In mid-August, it sure looked like the COVID-19 crisis would cancel the Tribute of Lights: the twin...Subscribe by Email
