Reprise: California’s sole traders
Affirmative action 1850s style (Note: In honor of, and to get ready for, The Legal Genealogist’s trip to the San Mateo Genealogical Society, this weekend, here’s a reprise of this post about San Mateo’s sole traders!) On the 29th of December 1856,...Copyright and the volunteer author
Next in an occasional series on copyright October of every year is designated as Archives Month, and archives around the country try to do something special in recognition of Archives Month. Today and tomorrow, for example, the National Archives is continuing its...The aging of Oregon
How old was he…? So many times, in genealogy, our ability to construct an argument that this person is related to that person in just this way depends on figuring out just how old somebody was at the time of a specific event. And we often don’t have direct...DNA and the GPS
Sometimes we just have to The Legal Genealogist’s light reading just before setting off for this trip to Oregon for the Genealogical Forum of Oregon’s fall seminar was the current issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ). It’s one...The legacy
The infant terrorist There is a special reason why The Legal Genealogist is so very happy to be in Portland for today’s seminar of the Genealogical Forum of Oregon. Two special reasons, as a matter of fact. One of them is named Beatrix, and she was born in July....What the early bird gets
Discounts on registration! It’s really a bummer, not being independently wealthy, isn’t it? Sigh. Somehow there’s always more genealogy we want to do than we have time or money for. Life just isn’t fair! But being an early bird can pay off,...Reprise: Crime and punishment in Oregon Territory
Benefit of clergy, wager of “battle,” and petit treason (Note: In honor of, and to get ready for, The Legal Genealogist’s trip to the Genealogical Forum of Oregon this weekend, here’s a reprise of this 2012 post about Oregon’s criminal...Reprise: Oregon Constitution
The Beaver State (Note: In honor of, and to get ready for, The Legal Genealogist’s trip to the Genealogical Forum of Oregon, this weekend, here’s a reprise of this 2012 post about Oregon’s constitution!) It was 1848 when it became a territory; nearly...MyHeritage partners with 23andMe
Linking trees and DNA Big news on the genetic genealogy front today — an announcement from MyHeritage that it has partnered with 23andMe to provide a tie-in between the DNA information of 23andMe and the family trees and matching technology of MyHeritage...Subscribe by Email
