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Monthly Archives: June 2012
A grave question of terms of use Next in the occasional series on terms of service are the two big websites set up for crowdsourcing1 of tombstones and other death information: Find A Grave; and BillionGraves. Both are free services, … Continue reading
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Busted as an officer Reader Karen Matheson writes: “I am looking at the Compiled Service Records for a CSA officer (2nd Lt). On several cards, it mentions that he was “cashiered” followed by a date. It appears that after being … Continue reading
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Eyes on the prizes Today, we will all be told many times, is the 200th anniversary of the declaration of war that officially began the conflict that became known as the War of 1812. The President sent a message to … Continue reading
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Paternal DNA It’s Father’s Day and DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist … so how better to celebrate the day than to give the men in my direct paternal line the gift of a little more information on their … Continue reading
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Home again Sir Walter Scott wrote a poem many years ago that describes well how most people feel after any kind of travelling: Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my … Continue reading
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Cool court record database Today is the last day of the weeklong Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University in Birmingham. It’s a short day, for wrapups and student presentations and handing out “you survived!” certificates. It’s always … Continue reading
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GovDocs for the non-GovDocs class They’re called GovDocs here at the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research — those wonderful, magical, marvelous windows to our collective past known as Government Documents. They’re so amazing in what they offer a researcher … Continue reading
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The storyteller Larry H. Spruill doesn’t do genealogy. He grabs it, embraces it, adopts it. He wraps his arms and a silver tongue around it, and he makes it sing. And the song it sang yesterday here at the Institute … Continue reading
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Records, and when there are no records Day One of the African-American Research track at the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research is “in the bag,” and already there’s enough information to pack away that it’s impossible to think anything … Continue reading
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The institute experience There is literally nothing in the genealogical world to compare to an institute: a week-long intensive immersive experience that is exhilarating, exhausting, entertaining and educational — often all at the same time. And so it is, once … Continue reading
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