The waters of Pennsylvania
Early laws for early days Here’s a news flash for you: Early Pennsylvania cared an awful lot about the waterways and seas. Yes, in case you’re wondering, The Legal Genealogist is poking around in colonial Pennsylvania laws in looking forward to...The case of Mrs. Endicott
Chinese Exclusion Act cases in Pennsylvania In December 1906, the case of Mrs. Endicott came before the Commissioner-General of Immigration, Department of Commerce and Labor, in Washington, D.C. It seemed that this widowed mother was en route to the United States from...Reprise: as the river flows
Iowa in Nebraska There is something distinctly disconcerting about driving down a perfectly straight road between Eppley Airfield — the Omaha, Nebraska, airport — and the City of Omaha. As The Legal Genealogist discovered this past weekend, while going to...No girls allowed
Women on juries in NY and elsewhere So The Legal Genealogist did her civic duty on Monday and sat around for most of a day waiting to be excused from jury service. It isn’t that I wouldn’t like to serve on a jury. It’s the fact that I’m not the...The price of citizenship
Being (sigh) a good citizen So The Legal Genealogist is off this morning — at the obscenely early hour of oh-dark-thirty — to perform her civic duty. In my case, that’s going to consist of sitting around for hours in a cold, drafty room on barely-cushioned chairs, for...The marshals’ returns
Great records from the War of 1812 Reader Pam McDonald sent in a great question to The Legal Genealogist: While researching a family line on ancestry.com, I came across an entry for one ancestor in the Marshals’ Returns of Enemy Aliens and POWs 1812-1815. I...Those damn dams
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. Did you ever stop and think about the situation our ancestors faced when they wanted to build a mill and needed to dam a watercourse to provide the water power...Hiring a navy
And-a privateering we shall go… It was 242 years ago today when the Continental Congress first took the critical action needed to try to balance out the enormous naval power of the British empire. It had to do it. After all, the colonies were at war. The other...The women of Orange County
Those wonderful California records It was the eighth of August 1889, and Alice Wright, wife of Silas Wright, a resident of the County of Orange, State of California, came into the office of the County Recorder at three minutes past 11 a.m. There and then, to the...Subscribe by Email
