The rules of guardianship
20th century Maryland style Reader Katie Garner is facing a very typical issue for genealogical research: the issue of guardianship for the child of a person who has died. Her specific question is how to find out when a guardianship was required, and how long —...Hats off to another amendment
It was the 13th Amendment It really wasn’t the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the enslaved. Really. The Legal Genealogist doesn’t want to take anything away from the majesty of that document or the man –President Abraham Lincoln — who...Once again, thank you, Utah!
Eight-five years ago today This day is so wonderful to The Legal Genealogist that a blog post recognizing it should be automagically scheduled to run every year on the fifth of December without fail. As it is, this is the fourth time I’ve taken the time —...Veteran’s Day 2018
Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 — one hundred years ago today — the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, the survivors breathed a...Tennessee from A to Z
The names in the petitions There are very few record sets The Legal Genealogist loves more than legislative petitions. The right to petition for redress of grievances has been part of Anglo-American history since the Magna Carta in 1215.1 A resolution of the House of...Virginia’s waste lands
The Fairfax grants Reader Kathi Jacobs discovered that an ancestor received two land grants in early Virginia that had some language in the documents she wasn’t quite sure of. “My 6x great grandfather George Edgington obtained land grants from Thomas Lord...Columbus Day quiz answer
… not as expected! So The Legal Genealogist threw out a question to readers yesterday, Columbus Day, 2018. When did Columbus Day first become an official federal holiday? Quite honestly, in getting ready to write a quick blog post about the holiday,1 I...“To the entire exclusion of the said Lorenzo”
Desertion and divorce in the law books You can never tell what stories you might stumble across in the law books. Yeah, yeah, The Legal Genealogist knows you’ve heard this before, but it really is amazing what you might run into just poking around in the law...Empire State laws
Republishing the Manhattan Past list Once upon a time, there was a website called Manhattan Past. It had a lot of goodies on that site, but the one The Legal Genealogist used most often was its list of the laws of New York, from its earliest colonial times through to...Subscribe by Email
