Coming up: January-February 2026
Upcoming presentations And here we are again, at the beginning of another year. Which, of course, means that things are ramping up for 2026 here at The Legal Genealogist. Here's a look at what's coming up on the schedule, and as always I'd love to have you come along,...
Rules of my road: 2026
Not legal advice! So many reader questions come in that are beyond what The Legal Genealogist can answer in this blog, because they're asking for legal advice. Um... that's not what this blog is all about. Not what this blog can do. It's necessary, or at least...
Welcome to 1930!
The copyright clock keeps ticking For most folks in the United States, this is the second day of January 2026. For The Legal Genealogist, it's the second day of 1930. No, that's not a typo. I really do mean 1930. The year that books like Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese...
Happy New Year 2026!
Fourteen years and counting… Fourteen years ago today, on the first of January 2012, the very first post appeared here at The Legal Genealogist. It explained that: My purpose in writing The Legal Genealogist is, in part, to help folks understand the often arcane and...
The Official TLG 2025 Thank You List
To the hosts and more of 2025 Wait just a minute here. Hold on. It isn’t really already…? How can it be…? Seriously…? Can it really be the end of 2025? Yep. Here we are again, coming up fast on the end of another busy year, and a time to step up and acknowledge all...
The returns of the 2025 season
What to do with the returns cash Okay. Let's all admit it. Come on. Say it out loud and get it over with. Here... The Legal Genealogist will go first: Not everything we got for a holiday gift was a hit. Yep, folks, that soap-on-a-rope just isn't quite the same after...
The Legal Genealogist’s Christmas & Holiday Wish 2025
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! From The Legal Genealogist to all those who have so enriched my life in 2025... I wish you the merriest of Christmases and happiest of Holidays! DisclaimerTerms and conditions may apply. Tariffs may also now apply. (Sigh.) Timely...
A promise kept
Over all those years It was Christmas Eve 2003. And in what -- I realize in retrospect -- was an astonishing lack of understanding of the town where I'd arrived mid-afternoon, I drove into Staunton, Virginia, to take my older sister Diana to a holiday dinner. I hadn't...
Coming up: December 2025-January 2026
Upcoming presentations It's beginning to look a lot like ... the end of another year. Yep, things are finally winding down for 2025 here at The Legal Genealogist -- and ramping up for 2026. So here's a look at what's coming up on the schedule, and you're invited to...
In the final analysis…
What really matters In the nearly 13 years that The Legal Genealogist has been writing, death has come to visit far too many times. It's taken three of my mother's siblings in those years: my Aunt Carol in 2012.[1. See Judy G. Russell, “The pain of another goodbye,”...
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