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Australia Fair!

Sydney and Melbourne The 10th Unlock the Past Cruise sails into Adelaide, Australia, today — which is Sunday, February 28th, here in Australia (that’s when this was written, no matter when it gets posted!). We spent yesterday at sea in a non-stop set of...

Gen-Fed Registration Saturday!

One of genealogy’s best offerings Mark your calendars. Tomorrow, Saturday, February 27, 2016, is the date, and 11 a.m. is the time — and that’s US Eastern standard time, folks, no matter where The Legal Genealogist happens to be right now — and...

Farewell to New Zealand

Heading to Australia The Legal Genealogist has been crossing the Tasman Sea the past two days, en route to Sydney, Australia. We’re due to arrive there today (Wednesday the 24th, Australia time), and have a morning of speaking to Sydney genealogists waiting for...

Oh New Zealand… again…

Part 2… There’s never enough time to do everything The Legal Genealogist wants to do on a trip like this one: speak, learn, blog… everything is a scramble. And I’m always behind even in posting a few pictures, like these, from the area of...

Oh, New Zealand…

Part 1… The Legal Genealogist will spent part of this fine Saturday morning (well, it’s Saturday here in New Zealand!) with the folks at the Dunedin Public Library, talking about the women of our families — why they’re so hard to trace, and...

Hobbiton!

In real life, even! The Legal Genealogist is a Lord of the Rings fan. Big time Lord of the Rings fan. As in “seen all the movies, more than once, and can practically recite dialogue from the book” Lord of the Rings fan. So it’s hardly a surprise...

Down the coast

Cruising NZ So The Legal Genealogist is cruising along down the New Zealand coast right now with the 10th Unlock Your Past Cruise. And loving every minute of it. What’s not to love? This is my home for the next two-plus weeks — with someone to make my bed,...

Falling in love

Valentine’s Day Down Under It’s already Sunday, February 14, here in Auckland, New Zealand, where The Legal Genealogist is getting ready to set sail with the good folks from the Unlock Your Past Cruises for the next 18 days in New Zealand and Australia....

Get a GRIP for 2016

Registration opens tomorrow So you didn’t make it to the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January. And you didn’t register for the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research for its June offerings. Are you starting to feel distinctly left out on...

Being transported

What that meant, what it means By the time you read these words of The Legal Genealogist, it will be sometime Monday, February 8th, in my home country of the United States. But it will already be Tuesday, February 9th, in Australia. Which is where The Legal...