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...PTP finally!!!
GREAT news about 1812 pensions Yeah, The Legal Genealogist is late with the news, but this news is so good, it’s worth repeating even if you’ve already heard it. The project is back. Back on track. Back digitizing records. And not just plain old ordinary...Attention NY researchers!
Free from the NY State Archives It may be the single best guide to a single state’s court records that’s ever been produced. Authored and compiled by Dr. James D. Folts of the New York State Archives, it bears the unwieldy title: “Duely & Constantly...Kudos to NCHRO!
Land grants digitization complete! So many times, The Legal Genealogist has to remind a reader: it’s not all online. Except… Thanks to the untiring personal effort and commitment of one North Carolina researcher and his team, there is one set of critically...Say their names…
Fan and Ana and Mary and … It’s Black History Month here in the United States, a time for all of us to benefit from learning more about the history, role and contributions of African Americans in this country. A time when “The Library of Congress, National...For Juneteenth, the letters
Powerful history Ancestry is often the company genealogists love to hate. Along with every other subscriber, The Legal Genealogist would note that — sigh — it’s expensive. It’s often unresponsive to concerns. It makes changes to things that...Ancestry releases 1950 index
The whole thing, AI-created It was already a game-changer when, on the first of April, the 1950 U.S. census images were released by the U.S. National Archives (NARA): using handwriting recognition software, NARA had produced a basic down-and-dirty index of that census...Judging the records
Find the judge, find the court It was a fairly typical post that landed in The Legal Genealogist’s Facebook feed, a day or two or three ago. A genealogist had found a newspaper article about a rascal of an ancestor but wasn’t able to find the court record...New source for UK court records
Just launched: Find Case Law Americans looking for copies of court opinions have it easy. No, really. The Legal Genealogist wouldn’t kid you about that.1 With the digitization of thousands of volumes of published court opinions dating back to the start of the...Subscribe by Email
