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Text searching on maps!

DavidRumsey.com adds text searching It's here it's here it's here it's here. So maybe The Legal Genealogist is a little excited. But it's here! Text searching on DavidRumsey maps! Now, there isn't a genealogist alive who doesn't love maps. And not a genealogist who's...

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Ancestry’s annual rules update 2023

Neither sturm nor drang Yes, it's that time again. Time for Ancestry to update rules of the road -- the terms of use that govern its interaction with its customers and its privacy statement that goes both ways: what users are supposed to do and what Ancestry is...

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Truth

... but no consequences The hits keep coming for that part of the genealogical community called investigative genetic genealogy — IGG for short — the use of DNA to identify human remains and solve crimes. A statement posted this past week, on the website of...

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Thank you, David!

Where there's a will... It was 185 years ago yesterday that David Baker died near what was to become Bakersville, the county seat of what is now Mitchell County, North Carolina. It wasn't even Mitchell County then; it had originally been Rowan County,[1. North...

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Year 22… never forget…

22 years ago today. In some ways, it's impossible to believe it's been so many years since that day. In other ways, it seems even more impossible to believe that day wasn't just yesterday. That day. That day, 22 years ago today. That day none of us can forget....

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A genealogist with a law degree, The Legal Genealogist Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL , is a lecturer, educator and writer. [More]

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