Entering its 25th year
Happy anniversary, Cyndi’s List! It began on March 4, 1996, as 1,025 links on a single web page. It is, today, one of the most remarkable, durable, and valuable genealogical resources anywhere on the internet, one The Legal Genealogist uses — and treasures...RootsTech from home
LiveStreaming sessions starting tomorrow So you’re watching all the blog posts and social media action about RootsTech 2020 getting underway in Salt Lake City. And you’re feeling left out. No reason for that — you can join in from home, with all day...2020 alphabet soup: C is for…
It’s not about being nice… You know what next week is, right? It’s RootsTech. One of the biggest genealogical block parties in the world. Thousands of people all converging on the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, and none of them — not one...Dating history
When we get it wrong It is a stunning piece of American history. The first known written protest against slavery in what was to become the United States. Just about every website that reports on things that happened on this day, February 18th, in history will tell you...A lesson in why…
Organizing our genealogy files is a good thing The Legal Genealogist’s files are a mess. I keep telling myself that I need to really go through and organize the records I have, record them properly and get them entered into the database. And I keep saying that...A touch of color
Reasonably accurate too If you’ve ever wondered what that old black-and-white or sepia photo might look like professionally colorized, wonder no more. With a new tool from MyHeritage called MyHeritage In Color™, you can quickly and easily colorize any...Lost no more
The story of one man’s fight for freedom There are stories being told again now, during February, Black History Month, that The Legal Genealogist has heard before. Stories about people like Harriet Tubman who escaped slavery and then helped other enslaved people...About those spots…
The Find A Grave leopard hasn’t changed … Ancestry, what are you waiting for? It’s long past time to impose a permanent humane solution to the long-term, persistent, growing problem at Find A Grave: that people utterly unassociated with a...Finding the hidden half
Join us at GRIP in June How many times have we struggled, mightily, to find even a single piece of information about a woman in our ancestry whose very identity is hidden in the records of her husband? How many times have we found ourselves, years later, discovering...Subscribe by Email
