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2019 alphabet soup: B is for…
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. So it's almost the halfway mark for the first week of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy for The Legal Genealogist. The main focus for me this first week is the Family History Law Library class...
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The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. Yep, The Legal Genealogist is back on the road. (I’m sure that will come as a shock… not…) It’s the start of the 2019 institutes as the 2019 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy gets underway, and Rick...
read moreA long overdue apology
To the families of the victims... The Legal Genealogist's first cousin once removed just couldn't understand the whole notion of genealogy when it came up in a conversation years ago. He could not for the life of him wrap his head around the idea of wanting to get to...
read moreHappy birthday, Mr. Hamilton!
Here's to 230 years of Treasury records The text for the post Today's Document, posted each day by the U.S. National Archives, is short and sweet: Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757, the illegitimate son of a poor itinerant merchant. He would go on to...
read moreA different question
A special guardian for what child? Reader Bridget Wanderer was baffled. The court record she'd come across just didn't make sense. She knew that her grandmother Gladys was enumerated living with her father, stepmother and grandfather Forrest H. Mitchell in Manhattan,...
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