Upcoming presentations
The Legal Genealogist has been slacking.
Well, if you consider traveling overseas and prepping roughly a kazillion lecture handouts slacking at least…
In any event, it’s the first of another month, there’s stuff to do, and it’s already underway! At the moment, I’m here at the Ohio Genealogical Society’s 2025 Conference where I just finished the keynote, session After the Courthouse Burns: Rekindling Family History through DNA. I’ll also be presenting Picture This! Images We Can Freely Use; Artificial Tears: The Pains and Joys of AI for Genealogy; Follow the Money! Records of the Record Makers; Martha Benschura – Enemy Alien; “Deemed a Runaway” – Black Laws of the North; and Margaret’s Mother: Using DNA to Solve a Mystery.
If you’re not here too, well, there’s more to come, and you’re invited along as much as possible.
So… what’s coming up next?
May 2025
• Monday-Wednesday, 5-7 May: The Genealogical Research Institute of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, will be held at the NSDAR facility in Washington, D.C. I’ll be joining other speakers including AI expert Steve Little and others in this set of classes. I’m presenting (1) Linking the Generations with Court and Land Records; (2) No, No, Nanette! What negative evidence is … and isn’t; and (3) the workshop Order in the Court – Hands on with Court Records.
• Saturday, 10 May, starting at 10:15 a.m. EDT: The Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore is hosting the 2025 Annual SLRC Genealogy Lecture, a set of four presentations I’ll give during the day both in-person and online: (1) That First Trip to the Courthouse; (2) Courting America: Using Court Records for Genealogy; (3) Where there Is — or Isn’t — a Will; and (4) Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions: The Family Black Sheep. For more information and to register, see the Events page.
• Friday, 16 May, 10:00 a.m. PDT, 1:00 p.m. EDT: The Bainbridge Island Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation Landing the Ancestors: Federal and State Land Records. For more information and to register, see the Society’s Events page.
• Saturday, 17 May, 10:45 a.m. CDT, 11:45 a.m. EDT: The Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries is hosting the virtual presentation Linking Generations with Court and Land Records. For more information, see the Saturday Seminars page.
• Friday-Monday, 23-26 May: The National Genealogical Society is hosting its hybrid in-person and virtual 2025 conference in Louisville, Kentucky. I’ll be joining a whole host of terrific speakers for this multi-day conference, presenting (1) Courting Kentucky: The Courts of the Bluegrass State; and (2) Making Mo(O)Re of the Evidence: A Mother for G.B. Robertson. For more information, see the Conference page.
• Saturday, 31 May, starting at 10 a.m. PDT: The Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogical Society International is hosting its all-day in-person spring seminar at the Maidu Community Center in Roseville, California. I’ll be presenting four topics: (1) Dower and Dowry: Women, Property, & Legal Records; (2) Follow the Money! Records of the Record Makers; (3) NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives; and (4) DNA and the Hidden Half of the Family. For more information and to register, see the Society’s homepage.
June 2025
• Monday-Friday, 16-20 June: The Texas State Genealogical Society is hosting its virtual institute, the Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR). I’ll be coordinating the course Legally Texas: Advanced Legal Research in the Lone Star State, joined by Teri Flack and LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson. And I’ll swing in for a couple of lectures to Kelvin Meyers’ course, Research in the Lone Star State. There are also courses in Building Communities Across the South, coordinated by J. Mark Lowe; Integrating AI into Genealogical Research and Writing, coordinated by Nicole Elder Dyer; and Beyond the Battlefield: Advanced Military Research Analysis and Methodology, coordinated by Michael L. Strauss. For more information and to register, see the TIGR web pages.
• Monday-Friday, 23-27 June: The all-virtual first week of the National Genealogical Society’s GRIP Genealogy Institute for 2025 includes some great courses, and there are some seats still available. I’m teaching in the now-closed AI & Genealogy: Innovations in Family History course, coordinated by Stephen J. Little & Mark D. Thompson, and in The Spirit of the Inland Seas: Research in the Great Lakes Region, coordinated by Cari A. Taplin, which does have a few seats left. For more information and to register for available classes , see the June courses page (and go on to look at the July in-person classes if June doesn’t work for you).
• Saturday, 28 June, 1:00 p.m. EDT: The Capital District Genealogical Society in Albany, NY, is hosting the hybrid virtual presentation Tracing Your Story: The First Steps in Adoptee Research. For more information and to register, see the Society’s Meetings page.
And, for the record (and with apologies for missing the April upcoming post), big thanks to the following hosts for April:
• Clayton Library-Family History Research Center of the Houston Public Library;
• Colorado Genealogical Society; and
• Irish Genealogical Society International.
Come on out and join us, if you can, for one or more of the upcoming 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: May-June 2025,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/ : posted 1 May 2025).
