And an anniversary here at TLG
Eight years ago today, on the first of January 2012, the very first post appeared here at The Legal Genealogist.
It explained that:
My purpose in writing The Legal Genealogist is, in part, to help folks understand the often arcane and even impenetrable legal concepts and terminology that are so very important to those of us studying family history. Without understanding the context in which events took place and records were created, we miss so much of both the significance and the flavor of what happened.1
It didn’t stop there. That first post went on to say:
But this blog won’t just be about the law. As the title goes, it’s “genealogy, the law, and so much more.” With your help, it ought to be a lot of fun to see just what “so much more” will be (and how much trouble we can get into finding out!).2
I hope you’re still having as much fun as I am — here at the start of a ninth year of this blog — in figuring out just what “so much more” will be (and how much more trouble we can get into this coming year…).
Happy New Year!!!
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Happy New Year 2020,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 1 Jan 2020).
- Judy G. Russell, “The Legal Genealogist takes flight!,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 1 Jan 2012 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 1 Jan 2020). ↩
- Ibid. ↩
Judy and a happy New Year to you. Thank you for the work you do and for sharing it with me. I hope you have a great and healthy year.
Happy new year, and congratulations on keeping the blog going for eight years!
Happy New Year to you, my friend and mentor. I am so grateful that you started this blog and have been willing for so many years to share your incredible skills with so many of us. Wishing you all the best and looking forward to learning more from you in 2020.
Happy New Year Judy. I think I can say you have taught me more about my ancestral family than any other cousin. The info you fed to me went straight to my other cousins, aunts and uncles. I know we will still have mistakes in our trees here and there, but we are more aware, we do better searches, we try to get it right. Thank you from the Baker, Burns, Wallace, Jarrett and many more. Blog on “Crusader of the Ages” we love you!