Looking back at Michigan lands
Primary School Lands: reprise In anticipation of this weekend’s seminar of the Western Michigan Genealogical Society in Grand Rapids, The Legal Genealogist was looking back on research done on Michigan issues in the past. (You are coming to the seminar, right?...Finding the Feds
Sources for federal laws Since this appears to be Resource Week here at The Legal Genealogist, it’s time to review one particular type of resource that comes up time and again: How do we find federal statutes? This came up just recently in a reader question...Treaty-ing the law
Great online resource Our ancestors certainly were concerned about weights and measures. They used them in their daily lives, and cared deeply if the millers and merchants weighed things properly. So… Did you ever wonder how it came to be that everyone around...The missing pages
Nope, it’s NOT all online There’s a really interesting statute that was passed by the Mississippi legislature in 1819, dealing with the licensing of physicians and surgeons. None of us, The Legal Genealogist included, tend to think of medical licensing...A matter of materiality
Locking up the witness It’s a natural human phenomenon: we all tend to root for the underdog. That was driven home this week after Monday’s blog post about a rather gruesome murder in Arkansas Territory that came to The Legal Genealogist’s attention...Harvard’s digitization project
Kudos to Harvard Law! Forty thousand law books. Forty million pages, give or take a few. Court decisions that begin with cases that were decided before the Constitution of the United States was even written. And — coming soon to the Internet near you —...Law in the Empire State
Finding New York statutes Tomorrow will see the start of three days of genealogy in upstate New York — Syracuse, to be precise. It’s the 2015 New York State Family History Conference, co-sponsored by the Central New York Genealogical Society and the New...The exceptional elector
One unexpected exception We all know what it took for an ancestor to be eligible to vote. It doesn’t matter if it’s The Legal Genealogist’s southern ancestors, or the ancestors of folks who are here in the Pacific Northwest attending the opening...A Michigan mystery
Primary School Lands In June of 1883, the administrator of the estate of George Arlt, deceased, reported to the Probate Court for the County of Presque Isle, Michigan, that he had been successful in selling a piece of property belonging to the deceased. The land...Subscribe by Email
