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Of money and chances

New terms of use at GEDmatch In the wake of two class-action lawsuits alleging violations of user privacy, the DNA website GEDmatch has announced changes to its terms of use, effective today, that work to address and excuse the specific violations set out in the court...

Veteran’s Day 2024

Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 — one hundred and six years ago today — the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, and throughout the world, those...

Coming up: November-December 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist tries to get a post out right around the first of each month with upcoming events. But The Legal Genealogist was still late this month — and owes thanks to both the Bucks County Genealogical Society and the Family...

Coming up: October-November 2024

Upcoming presentations 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...

Year 23… never forget…

23 years ago today. It has been 23 years. That’s 276 months. 8,401 days. 201,624 hours. 12,097,440 minutes. 725,846,400 seconds. Enough for a lifetime of memories. Memories that some of us can never forget. Memories that others never got the chance to make....

Internet Archive loses copyright appeal

Federal court says digital copying is not fair use In a case testing the outer limits of digitization of copyrighted works, a federal appeals in New York has affirmed a trial judge’s ruling that Internet Archive infringed the copyright of four publishing houses...

And so it began…

250 years ago today They met in Philadelphia, at Carpenters’ Hall, on a hot September day. Fifty-six men from as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as South Carolina. Lawyers. Farmers. Millers. Merchants. And revolutionaries. Perhaps not at first. Not...

The order of things…

A correction Sigh… even proofreading isn’t always enough. The words may be right, but the order has to be right too. So let’s try one more time for these upcoming events in October: • CORRECTION: Friday, 18 October, 9:50 a.m. EDT: The Virginia...
Coming up: September-October 2024

Coming up: September-October 2024

Upcoming presentations How is it possible that it’s already Labor Day here in the United States? It seems like yesterday it was the Fourth of July and the day before yesterday was New Year’s Day and… Tempus fugit, for sure. And then some! So…...
The inevitability of change

The inevitability of change

New email system Sigh… The Legal Genealogist doesn’t like change any more than anyone else does. However… change is inevitable, especially when an email service decides to stop serving, and so there’s a change today in the email system for blog...