Upcoming presentations
It’s what?
February already???
Yes it sure is, and The Legal Genealogist is sprinting into the new month with lots of upcoming events.
As always, there’s fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you’re invited to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip. (Hey, you know you really want to come to Connections 2025, right?)
So… what’s coming up next?
February 2025
• Saturday, 1 February, 11 a.m. CST / noon EST: The Dallas Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives. For more information, see the DGS General Meeting page.
• Tuesday, 4 February, 7 p.m. EST: The Morris Area Genealogy Society in New Jersey is hosting the virtual presentation No Vitals? No Problem! Bringing Josias Home. For more information, see the society’s Meeting Schedule page.
• Friday-Sunday, 7-9 February: The North Carolina Genealogical Society is offering free public access to my recorded webinar Courting North Carolina: The Courts of the Tarheel State – Part 1. For more information, see the society’s events page.
• Saturday, 15 February, starting at 9 a.m. CST / 10 a.m. EST: The Wisconsin Historical Society is hosting an all-day virtual workshop, The Hidden Half of the Family: Finding Women and Children in Legal Records. The four presentations for the day are: Putting Those Records to Work; From Sealed Records to Open Histories: Adoption Laws and Genealogy; Dower and Dowry: Women, Property, & Legal Records; and DNA and the Hidden Half of the Family. For more information and to register, see the Events page.
• Saturday, 22 February, 9 a.m. EST: The Pinellas Genealogy Society in Florida is hosting its all-day annual seminar in hybrid format (in-person and via Zoom) with four presentations: NARA MythBusters: Your Family IS in the Archives; Putting Those Records to Work; Property Rights and Wrongs – African Americans at the Courthouse; and “Don’t Forget the Ladies” – A Genealogist’s Guide to Women and the Law. Additional breakout speakers are Lori Coffey with Technology Tips for Genealogy and Susan Luce and Denise Manning with Follow the Yellow Brick Road Through the Forest of Documentary Research and DNA. For more information, see the PGS Seminar 2025 Information page.
• Wednesday, 26 February, 3 p.m. EST: Legacy Family Tree Webinars is hosting the webinar presentation Shootout at the Rhododendron Lodge: Reconstructing Life-Changing Events. For more information and to register, see the webinar page.
March 2025
• Thursday-Saturday, 6-8 March: RootsTech 2025 the combination in-person and virtual conference, will take place in Salt Lake City and around the world. I’ll be there in person, presenting four sessions. On 6 March at 9:30 a.m. MT, it’s In That Case: Using Published Court Cases, and at 1:30 p.m. MT, a session that will also be live online, A Matter of Standards: DNA and the Genealogical Proof Standard. Then on 7 March, I’ll be presenting at 9:30 a.m. MT, The Ties that Bond, and at 3 p.m. MT, Twenty-eight Volumes of Gold: U.S. Territorial Papers. For more information and to register, see the RootsTech website page.
• Thursday-Saturday, 21-24 March: Connections 2025, the 17th Australasian Congress on Genealogy and Heraldry, is being hosted in Brisbane, Australia, under the guidance of the Genealogical Society of Queensland, the Australasian Federation of Family History Organisations, and History Queensland Inc., at the Brisbane Technology Park Conference & Exhibition Centre. I’m one of a stellar lineup of international speakers, and will be presenting two featured talks — the keynote A Sentence of Transportation on Friday, 21 March, at 9:30 a.m., and The Robot Genealogist: Separating Fact from Fiction in AI-Assisted Research at noon on Saturday, 22 March — and two master classes: on Saturday, 22 March at 8 a.m., You Be The Judge: Ethics in Action, and on Sunday, 23 March at 8 a.m., Digging Deeper: Extracting Every Clue. For more information, see the conference website and to register, see the registration page.
• Friday-Saturday, 28-29 March: The North Carolina Genealogical Society is hosting its 2025 NCGS Virtual Conference. A wide variety of speakers will cover topics ranging from methodology to DNA and lots in-between. I’m up on Saturday, 29 March at 11:15 a.m. ET for the presentation From 1619 to Juneteenth – Slavery and the Law Before the Civil War. For more information, see the society’s annual conference page.
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: February-March 2025,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/ : posted 1 Feb 2025).
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