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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Pitching in It is almost beyond belief that in the not-quite-three months since the 1940 census was released, on April 2, 2012, the cooperative crowdsourced indexing project called the 1940 U.S. Census Community Project — in which FamilySearch.org, Archives.com and … Continue reading
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Upcoming speaking events There are two upcoming events where I’m going to be speaking that require a little bit of advance planning. Well, a little bit in one case and maybe a little bit more advance planning in the other … Continue reading
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What the law was and is: federal One thing The Legal Genealogist preaches (to the point where some people are tired of it for pete’s sake already yet) is this: We need to understand the law at the time and … Continue reading
Little known federal land court It only existed for 13 years, from 1891 to 1904. It had five judges, who were called justices, each paid the princely sum of $5,000 a year, plus traveling and personal expenses while on the … Continue reading
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Wyoming’s Constitution So yesterday The Legal Genealogist launched what will be a very lengthy process of working with readers to catalog as many solid sources of American primary law as we can, to put together a resource that will help … Continue reading
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Primary Law: an introduction to a resource series One comment heard around The Legal Genealogist each and every day is this: finding sources to help explain the law as it was at a particular time in a particular place isn’t … Continue reading
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Was he or wasn’t he? It started out as a typical American story. Mom, Dad, three sons and finally a daughter. But when Mom and Dad threw in the towel on their marriage two years after the daughter’s birth, Dad … Continue reading
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Remembering Dr. Pepper Scientists say that memory and the sense of smell are intimately intertwined,1 and it’s a sure bet The Legal Genealogist isn’t going to disagree one bit. That link of memory and smell was driven home again yesterday … Continue reading
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Who’s on first? Reader Jill M. has an ancestor who was embroiled in a lawsuit in New York State in 1865. But oh boy… what a lawsuit! She was fortunate to find both the reported decision of case in the … Continue reading
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Thanks for the boondoggle Yeah, it probably was a boondoggle, one that would have a portion of today’s population howling about government waste and deficit spending. But here at The Legal Genealogist, all there is — all there could be … Continue reading
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