Coming up: October-November 2023
Upcoming presentations Wait a minute. Wait just a darned minute here. Wasn’t it yesterday that the summer was starting? Now the calendar has already flipped into October? The Legal Genealogist thinks time is running by awfully fast… Sigh… So now that...Year 22… never forget…
22 years ago today. In some ways, it’s impossible to believe it’s been so many years since that day. In other ways, it seems even more impossible to believe that day wasn’t just yesterday. That day. That day, 22 years ago today. That day none of us...Coming up: September-October 2023
Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist can hardly believe it. September. Already. What happened to summer??? Sigh… So we look to the fall, and a busy fall it will be! As always I want to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip… Here’s...Saying their names
Recovering their identities The first arrived in North America most likely in 1539, brought to Florida as part of the expedition in which Hernando DeSoto attempted to establish a colony for Spain.1 The first arrivals in British North America came in the ships The...Coming up: August-September 2023
Upcoming presentations It’s a busy summer for The Legal Genealogist, and that’s not changing any time soon. Between individual presentations, institute courses and — sigh — settling in as much as possible with two feline toddlers (new...A time of grace
Thanks to you The Legal Genealogist has been taking a deep breath. A very very deep breath. A regroup — refresh — recharge type of deep breath. Moving from a home where I’d lived for more than 30 years took more out of me than I’d expected....July 4, 2023
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...Just three days
IGHR registration ends Saturday There are just three days left. Three days in which to register for one of the few open seats at the 2023 all-virtual Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) — summer camp for genealogists. Three days of an open...Happy Juneteenth!
In Galveston… It was 158 years ago today that General Gordon Granger of the United States Army read it to the people of Galveston, Texas. General Orders No. 3 from the Headquarters District of Texas began: The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with...Subscribe by Email
