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Upcoming presentations We are right in the Dog Days of summer in the United States these days, aren't we? Long hot sultry days, flashy afternoon thunderstorms, humidity enough to curl straight hair and straighten curly hair. Hard to believe it's already August, the...

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...

Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit! Believe it or not, it's July already yet! We're in the midst of the summer institute season, having finished GRIP’s virtual session and looking towards MAAGI’s virtual courses, then GRIP’s in-person session, then IGHR's...

A cause for celebration It's only been a federal holiday for four years. But it isn't new... not at all. It all started back 160 years ago today, on the 19th of June 1865. Juneteenth. That's the day on which, it's believed, the very last persons held in bondage in...

About that calendar of upcoming events... The Legal Genealogist really can read a calendar. Really. And in reading a calendar really does understand that something that ends in August can still begin in July and should be included in July events. Sigh... So let's try...