For that personal touch
Genealogy education in person So... just how much did it hurt last week, sitting there at home and watching all those posts -- photos, videos and more -- of genealogists getting together in person at RootsTech in Salt Lake City? To The Legal Genealogist, seriously, it...
Coming up: March-April 2026
Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It's the first of March (even if this email doesn't go out until the 2nd because of a tech glitch!), a day on which The Legal Genealogist expected to be explaining gleefully that, no, she wasn't going to be at RootsTech...
Coming up: February-March 2026
Upcoming presentations Ordinarily, about this time of the year, The Legal Genealogist would be joking about how it could possibly be February already and moaning about where the time has gone. But The Legal Genealogist lives in Virginia. In the part of Virginia that...
On this day, remember
Make remembering matter more Today, the 27th of January, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.[1. See “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust,” UNESCO (https://www.unesco.org/ : accessed 26 Jan 2026).] And today The Legal...
An apology worth repeating
To the families of the victims... Here, in 2026, on this federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., there is an apology worth repeating. It begins with a story from some years ago. The Legal Genealogist's first cousin once removed just couldn't...
Milestones 2026
Looking back to 2025, forward to 2026 There's no doubt about it. The very best part of genealogy is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories that begin,...
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...
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