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The Legal Genealogist usually tries, hard, to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events.

This month The Legal Genealogist is very late with this post.

I do however have a really good excuse. I finally got to take that trip to my paternal ancestral lands that I had scheduled… for September 2020.

So I’m in Germany. Visiting tiny churches, being treated to cake and coffee by the folks who maintain those tiny churches, and walking in the footsteps of generations of my German ancestors in towns with names like Rüdersdorf, and Bad Köstritz, and Ossig and…

But I’ll be home soon, and there’s some fun stuff on the schedule coming up. As always, I want to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip.

October-November 2024

October 2024

Friday, 18 October, 9:50 a.m. EDT: The Virginia Genealogical Society begins its two-day virtual Fall Conference. I’m presenting twice on Friday, with the virtual talks Finding Virginia Law and Crows Heads and Squirrel Scalps: Early Virginia Laws . Later that day and on Saturday, 19 October, other speakers include Julia Anderson, Debra Dudek, Michael Strauss, John Beatty, Claire Kluskens and J. Mark Lowe. For more information and to register, see the event page.

Saturday, 19 October, 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT): The Ventura County (CA) Genealogical Society is hosting its 2024 Annual Seminar, From Murder to Methods: Using Genealogical Records. The four lectures for the day are Death by Undue Means – Coroner’s Records; NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives; Putting Those Records to Work; and When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records. For more information and to register, see the event page.

Monday, 21 October, 7 p.m. EDT: The Greater Cleveland Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation DNA and the Golden Rule: Ethics of Genetic Genealogy in a hybrid format (Zoom to members only and in person at the Fairview Park Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library). For more information, see the society website.

Wednesday, 23 October, 2 p.m. EDT: The Legacy Family Tree Webinars is hosting the webinar presentation Which Johann Christoph is Mine?. For more information, see the webinar page.

Friday-Saturday, 25-26 October: The Minnesota Genealogical Society is holding its 17th annual North Star Conference at the Eagan Community Center, 1501 Central Parkway, Eagan, MN. There’s a pre-conference set of DNA workshops on October 24, and I am proud to be kicking off the conference itself with a look at Roadblocks, Red Lights and Detours: Record Access for Genealogists. After that, I join a whole host of terrific speakers such as Blaine Bettinger (another keynoter), and Paula Stuart-Warren, and Jay Fonkert and… and… and… Other talks I’m giving are NARA Mythbusters: Your Family is in the Archives, No Vitals, No Problem: Building a Family Through Circumstantial Evidence, Revelers, Hogkillers, and Disobedient Children: Early State Law, and the banquet talk, Just Three Generations. For more information, see the North Star Conference page.

November 2024

Saturday, 2 November, 10 a.m. EDT: The Bucks County (PA) Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation Building a Family through Circumstantial Evidence: A Family for Isabella. For more information and links to register, see the Calendar of Events page.

Saturday, 2 November, 10 a.m. Arizona time (1 p.m. EDT): The Family History Society of Arizona (FHSA) is hosting its 2024 annual Virtual Genealogy Seminar. I’ll be presenting twice: Don’t Forget the Ladies- A Genealogist’s Guide to Women and the Law; and Margaret’s Mother: Using DNA to Solve a Mystery. Then Gena Philibert-Ortega takes over for two more great presentations. For more information and to register, see the 2024 annual seminar page.

Tuesday, 5 November, 2 p.m. CST/3 p.m. EST: The Northern Waters Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation “No Person Shall … Gallop Horses In the Streets” – Using Court Records to tell the Story of our Ancestors’ Lives. For more information, see the event page and contact information there.

Wednesday, 6 November, 6 p.m. EST: The Boston Public Library is hosting the presentation Landing The Ancestors: Federal and State Land Records. For more information and to register, see the Event Page.

Saturday, 9 November, 9:15 a.m. PST/12:15 p.m. EST: The Clallam County Genealogical Society is holding its hybrid 2024 annual seminar at the Research Center (and via Zoom) 403 E. 8th, Port Angeles, Washington. I’ll be presenting A Legal Perspective for Genealogists, with the three presentations Revelers, Hogkillers and Disobedient Children: Early State Laws; Landing The Ancestors: Federal and State Land Records; and Landing the Fourths: Proving a Case with Court, Land, and DNA Evidence. For more information and to register, see the Events Page.

Wednesday, 13 November, 7 p.m. MST/9 p.m. EST: The Pikes Peak Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation Who, What, Why, When, Where and How of American Divorce. For more information, see the Upcoming PPGS Programs page.

Friday, 15 November, 2 p.m. EST: The Legacy Family Tree Webinars is hosting the webinar presentation Laws of the Indies: Spanish Colonial laws and the records they produced. For more information, see the webinar page.

Saturday, 16 November, noon CST/1 p.m. EST: The Colonial Special Interest Group of the Computer Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois is hosting the presentation Occupants, Owners or Nations: Native Rights to Land. For more information, see the Event Page.

Wednesday, 20 November, 8 p.m. EST: The APG Writers SIG is hosting the members-only presentation Beyond copyright: the law and ethics for writers. For information about the SIG, the email is apgwriters@gmail.com.

Thursday, 21 November, 7:30 p.m. EST: The Fairfax Genealogical Society is hosting the presentation Terms and Conditions May Apply. For more information, see the Event Calendar.

Come on out and join us, if you can, for one or more of these events and note, in some cases, that registration will be free or at a reduced cost to members of the host society — and some are limited to members only… There are some reaaaaaaally good reasons for joining genealogical societies… Just sayin’…


Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Coming up: October-November 2024,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 9 October 2024).