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CORRECTION: GRIP 2025
GRIP in person and virtual Yeah, right, oops. The Legal Genealogist goofed. The email that went out about GRIP registration was correct except... The in-person week is at the University of Pittsburgh, not at LaRoche University. So here's the scoop, stated correctly...
Get a GRIP for 2025
Registration opens Tuesday, February 4 An awful lot of folks in the genealogical community had long sad faces last week. Watching online all week along as people who shared their interests in learning new things were doing just that at the 2025 Salt Lake Institute of...
Coming up: February-March 2025
Upcoming presentations It's what? February already??? Yes it sure is, and The Legal Genealogist is sprinting into the new month with lots of upcoming events. As always, there's fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you're invited to come along, to the extent...
Call to action: New York!
Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family history -- including medical family history -- is being threatened...
Honoring the dreamer
Continuing the dream Today, in the United States, it is a federal holiday to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we remember the dreamer. And we continue to work towards the dream. “I have a dream,” he said, on August 28, 1963, a...