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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,...
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