Coming up: April-May 2026
Upcoming presentations Hard to believe we’re already into April of 2026, Easter is just around the corner, and The Legal Genealogist is hard at work catching up from a milestone-birthday-trip that shoulda been a Nile cruise but — given world events —...For that personal touch
Genealogy education in person So… just how much did it hurt last week, sitting there at home and watching all those posts — photos, videos and more — of genealogists getting together in person at RootsTech in Salt Lake City? To The Legal Genealogist,...Coming up: March-April 2026
Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It’s the first of March (even if this email doesn’t go out until the 2nd because of a tech glitch!), a day on which The Legal Genealogist expected to be explaining gleefully that, no, she wasn’t going to...Coming up: February-March 2026
Upcoming presentations Ordinarily, about this time of the year, The Legal Genealogist would be joking about how it could possibly be February already and moaning about where the time has gone. But The Legal Genealogist lives in Virginia. In the part of Virginia that...On this day, remember
Make remembering matter more Today, the 27th of January, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.1 And today The Legal Genealogist received an email from Jennifer Mendelsohn and Dr. Adina Newman, Co-Founders and Lead Genealogists of the Holocaust Reunion Project. A...An apology worth repeating
To the families of the victims… Here, in 2026, on this federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., there is an apology worth repeating. It begins with a story from some years ago. The Legal Genealogist’s first cousin once removed just...Milestones 2026
Looking back to 2025, forward to 2026 There’s no doubt about it. The very best part of genealogy is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories that...Coming up: January-February 2026
Upcoming presentations And here we are again, at the beginning of another year. Which, of course, means that things are ramping up for 2026 here at The Legal Genealogist. Here’s a look at what’s coming up on the schedule, and as always I’d love to...Rules of my road: 2026
Not legal advice! So many reader questions come in that are beyond what The Legal Genealogist can answer in this blog, because they’re asking for legal advice. Um… that’s not what this blog is all about. Not what this blog can do. It’s...Subscribe by Email
