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A Certified GenealogistSM and Certified Genealogical LecturerSM with a law degree, The Legal Genealogist Judy G. Russell is a lecturer, educator and writer who enjoys helping others understand a wide variety of genealogical issues, including the interplay between genealogy and the law. [More]
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A question of place
Whence Opal?
If you accept the record evidence, she was born on the same day to the same parents in two different towns, in two different counties, a little more than 42 miles apart as the crow fli ...
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Thank you, FXGS!
Great night with Fairfax Genealogical Society
Today is the officially unofficial start to the Memorial Day Weekened, with folks fleeing to beaches (if the weather allows) and family get-togethers a ...
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A relational tale
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing.
In the year 1840, in the state of South Carolina, a man named E.B. Bronson claimed to have been properly elected an Ordinary in ...
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Liberty reopens July Fourth!
Lady Liberty to shine
The Legal Genealogist usually leaves general genealogy-related news to the sites and blogs that tend to do that far better, but there is awfully good news today for all us -- ...
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Reprise: the storms of spring
The storms of spring
Note: The Legal Genealogist doesn't make a practice of reprinting earlier posts. But the horror of yesterday's news out of Moore, Oklahoma, has my cousin Thelma so front-and-ce ...
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