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AI meets TOS

MyHeritage adds and Ancestry clarifies AI limits Yep, it's terms-of-service season at the genealogy websites, and this year -- not surprisingly -- there's a clear showdown going on between major content providers on one side and the agents of artificial intelligence...

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A Mother’s Day caution

Happy Mother’s Day 2026 It is Mother’s Day here in the United States, and The Legal Genealogist is thinking once more about the pluses and minuses of testing every available older member of the family if we want to incorporate DNA -- and particularly mtDNA -- into our...

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Coming up: May-June 2026

Upcoming presentations Mayday! Well, at least May Day. The first of May 2026 already. And lots of things coming up that, as always, The Legal Genealogist invites you to come along on. First and foremost, we headed towards the start of the summer institute season....

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Coming up: April-May 2026

Upcoming presentations Hard to believe we're already into April of 2026, Easter is just around the corner, and The Legal Genealogist is hard at work catching up from a milestone-birthday-trip that shoulda been a Nile cruise but -- given world events -- turned into a...

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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...

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