Reprise: Of that Thanksgiving past
Pass the gravy, please… Sometime around 5 o’clock this afternoon, in a dining room in northern Virginia, members of The Legal Genealogist‘s family will sit down for what promises to be a fabulous Thanksgiving feast. My brother Fred and his lovely wife Nicole are...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...Memorial Day 2024
Remembering the fallen It is Memorial Day here in the United States–the official holiday and the end of the three-day weekend during which we honor those who gave all for the cause of American freedom. It was added to the federal holiday calendar in 1888 as Decoration...The passing of time
Marking the mortal milestones It happened for the first time on the 12th of January 2005. On that day, The Legal Genealogist had lived more days, more months, more years than an immediate forebear. My father’s father — the German grandfather I had never...Milestones, 2024
Looking back to 2023, forward to 2024 The very best part of falling headlong into family history research is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories...Resolved — and resolved!
A win in 2023, and on to 2024 It was just a year ago when The Legal Genealogist resolved to solve, once and for all, the mystery of the marriage of the New Year’s Eve baby. The baby was my father’s aunt, born, the church records say, at 9:30 a.m. on 31...Thank you, David!
Where there’s a will… It was 185 years ago yesterday that David Baker died near what was to become Bakersville, the county seat of what is now Mitchell County, North Carolina. It wasn’t even Mitchell County then; it had originally been Rowan County,1...More to the story
There just has to be… It’s not possible for a genealogist to come across a key date in a family history and not want to know more. So too for The Legal Genealogist, looking at a birth 227 years ago tomorrow in a place far across the ocean. Maria Margarethe...Zufferin’ Zebulons!
Yep, there are at least two of them, too… So The Legal Genealogist was dismayed to learn that the John Baird of Wilson County, Tennessee, who is her 5th great grandfather isn’t the one who left all the cool probate records. Sigh… I mean, I’ve...Subscribe by Email
