The drafty Ohioan
When Johnny didn’t go for a soldier In genealogy, as in law, it’s awfully hard to prove a negative. It’s even harder when you’re trying to figure out why someone didn’t do something you think perhaps he should have done. But that’s...BCG blog launches!
The official word from BCG Washington, D.C. — The 49-year-old Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG), the group that wrote the book on genealogical standards, recently joined the blogosphere with its blog, SpringBoard: News and Notes. According to BCG...To speak the truth
“Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs.”1 So The Legal Genealogist heads off again this morning, at yet another oh-dark-thirty, to fulfill her civic duty as a prospective juror. Use of the word “prospective” is, of course, deliberate, since there...Unembraceable me
Embrace me, My sweet embraceable you.1 So The Legal Genealogist is off this morning — at the obscenely early hour of oh-dark-thirty — to perform her civic duty. In my case, that’s going to consist of sitting around for hours in a cold, drafty room on...AncestryDNA: interface improvements
Two down, a bunch to go There’s still an awful lot of room for improvement at AncestryDNA … but things are improving. Progress is s-l-o-w … but at least in two very concrete ways, the interface for autosomal DNA test results is better now than when...Twists and turns of the family tree
Finding the links You just have to love it when a family history keeps unfolding before your eyes, and the roots keep twisting and twining and tying folks together. Here’s a case in point. One hundred and thirty years ago yesterday, Mr. John H. Green married...State Constitutions: Utah
The Beehive State One hundred and seventeen years ago today, a 45th star was added to the United States flag when President Grover Cleveland signed the legislation that admitted Utah to the Union as the 45th state.1 It wasn’t the State that had been originally...The curious case of the curator
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. The orders both appear on the very first page of Letters of Administration Book A of Volusia County, Florida. Both are captioned “In the Matter of the Estate of Philemon Wilhite deceased.” And they...Copyright and the pen name
Next in an occasional series on copyright — the nom de plume She writes as Lisa / Smallest Leaf. She always has. But when the time came to branch out beyond her well-known genealogy blogs to a QuickGuide on Croatian Genealogy, she stopped to think. How, she wondered,...Subscribe by Email
