Upcoming presentations

October 1.

Already.

Sheesh. Three fourths of the year gone, and it doesn’t seem possible that we’re already — what — 10 days or so officially into the fall season in the Northern Hemisphere — and spring Down Under.

So… what’s up next? A lot! As always, The Legal Genealogist wants to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip. But in particular, I want to invite you to join me in a two-part course being offered by the Family History Academy. If you’ve ever wanted to dig deeper into coroner’s records, come on along for “When Death Demands Answers: Understanding Historical Coroner’s Records.” It starts in just one week, and there are still a few spots available — and, as you may have gathered — I’m excited to help folks learn how to integrate these underused records into their family histories. There’s more info below.

And of course there’s more…

October 2025

• Saturday, 4 October, 1 p.m. PDT (4 p.m. EDT): The Linn Genealogical Society in Albany, Oregon, is hosting the members-only virtual presentation When Enough is Enough..

• Wednesdays, October 8 and October 15, 7 p.m. EDT: The Family History Academy is hosting When Death Demands Answers: Understanding Historical Coroner’s Records — this virtual two-part course that I’m so excited about. Think about it: there’s a wealth of genealogical information tucked away in coroners’ records: officials charged by law with determining the cause and circumstances of deaths not clearly resulting from natural causes. We’re going to look at records from all over — not just the US, but Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom too. For more information and to register, see the FHA course website.

• Saturday, 18 September, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT: The York County Library in South Carolina is hosting its Annual Genealogy & Family History Expo at the Courtyard by Marriott in Fort Mill, SC. I’m keynoting with From Blackstone to the Statutes at Large: How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists and will also be presenting Putting Those Records to Work, The Discriminating Genealogist: Telling Good Evidence from Bad, and “Don’t Forget the Ladies”: A Genealogist’s Guide to Women and the Law. I’m delighted to be presenting alongside Rebecca Whitman Koford (How I Built My Own Brick Wall and the Sledgehammer of Experience and Military Pension Records: Revolution to the Civil War), Ari Wilkins (Finding the Last Slave Owner and Unique African American Records), Kelli Bergheimer (How to Clear the Mess on Your Desk and DNA Success: Understanding Genetic Networks), Cheri Hudson Passey (Collateral Research: The Secret Sauce to Finding Family Records and From Name Collection to Name Confirmation: Adding Leaves to the Right Branch) and Lisa T. Lisson (“Don’t Miss a Beat!”: Unlocking Ancestral Clues in Newspapers) throughout the day. For more information and to register, see the library’s event page.

• Wednesday-Saturday, 29 October-1 November: The New England Regional Genealogical Consortium (NERGC) is hosting its in-person 2025 Conference at the DoubleTree hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire. The actual NERGC conference is Thursday-Saturday, but I’m counting Wednesday because of the terrific early events, including my day-long workshop on researching women and children. The presentations for this special workshop are School Days: Children In and Out of the Classroom, On the Dole: Poor Relief, Mother’s Pensions and Welfare, Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Women and Children in the Newspapers and Keeping the Home fires Burning: Women and Children in Manuscripts. Since these are drawn from Women and Children First! Research Methods for the Hidden Members of the Family–the GRIP Genealogy Institute course I coordinate–attendees can get a taste for what an immersive institute course can be like. My conference presentations will be The Law from Common to Uncommon and The Robot Genealogist: Separating Fact from Fiction. For more information and to register, see the NERGC website.

November 2025

• Saturday, 1 November, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. CDT (9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. EDT): The Tennessee Genealogical Society is hosting its virtual all day Fall Seminar. I’m delighted to be doing some of my favorite presentations: Mr. Blackstone’s Common Law, NARA Mythbusters: Your Family IS in the Archives, Follow the Money! Records of the Record Makers, and Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions: The Family Black Sheep. For more information and to register, see the Event page.

• Wednesday, 5 November, 2:00 p.m. EST: Legacy Family Tree Webinars is hosting the virtual presentation DNA Informed Consent: DNA’s Essential Ethical Underpinning. For more information and to register, see the webinar page.

• Thursday, 6 November, 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 p.m. EST): The Napierville Public Library in Illinois is hosting the virtual presentation Share and Share Alike: The Rules of Genealogical Privacy. For more information and to register, see the library’s calendar page.

• Saturday, 8 November, 7:00 p.m. CST (8:00 p.m. EST): The BCG Education Fund is hosting its all-day 2025 Fall Virtual Putting Skills to Work workshop. Carolyn Ladd and I are co-presenting Paper Trails and Legal Tales: Analyzing History One Record at a Time and will guide folks through the skills of source citation, transcribing handwritten records, abstracting key details from those records, and analyzing the meaning of the records through the prism of the law with the aim of reconstructing a family’s history. For more information and to register, see the workshop page.

• Wednesday, 12 November, 7:00 p.m. MST (9:00 p.m. EST): The Pikes Peak Genealogical Society in Colorado Springs is hosting the virtual presentation Revelers, Hogkillers, and Disobedient Children: Early State Laws. For more information and to receive an invitation as a non-member, see the society’s Upcoming Programs page.

• Saturday, 15 November, 10:00 a.m. MST (noon EST): The Colorado Genealogical Society is hosting the virtual presentation From Sealed Records to Open Histories: Adoption Laws and Genealogy. For more information and to register, keep an eye on the society’s Events page.

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: October-November 2025,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/ : posted 1 Oct 2025).