The Official TLG 2025 Thank You List
To the hosts and more of 2025 Wait just a minute here. Hold on. It isn’t really already…? How can it be…? Seriously…? Can it really be the end of 2025? Yep. Here we are again, coming up fast on the end of another busy year, and a time to step up and acknowledge all...
The returns of the 2025 season
What to do with the returns cash Okay. Let's all admit it. Come on. Say it out loud and get it over with. Here... The Legal Genealogist will go first: Not everything we got for a holiday gift was a hit. Yep, folks, that soap-on-a-rope just isn't quite the same after...
The Legal Genealogist’s Christmas & Holiday Wish 2025
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! From The Legal Genealogist to all those who have so enriched my life in 2025... I wish you the merriest of Christmases and happiest of Holidays! DisclaimerTerms and conditions may apply. Tariffs may also now apply. (Sigh.) Timely...
A promise kept
Over all those years It was Christmas Eve 2003. And in what -- I realize in retrospect -- was an astonishing lack of understanding of the town where I'd arrived mid-afternoon, I drove into Staunton, Virginia, to take my older sister Diana to a holiday dinner. I hadn't...
Coming up: December 2025-January 2026
Upcoming presentations It's beginning to look a lot like ... the end of another year. Yep, things are finally winding down for 2025 here at The Legal Genealogist -- and ramping up for 2026. So here's a look at what's coming up on the schedule, and you're invited to...
In the final analysis…
What really matters In the nearly 13 years that The Legal Genealogist has been writing, death has come to visit far too many times. It's taken three of my mother's siblings in those years: my Aunt Carol in 2012.[1. See Judy G. Russell, “The pain of another goodbye,”...
Veteran’s Day 2025
Honoring the forgotten veteran So many of The Legal Genealogist's family members are being honored today in the United States. Today. November 11. Veterans Day. First proclaimed in November 1919 by President Wilson,[1. “Veterans Day,” WWPL Blog, posted 22 March 2019,...
Coming up: November-December 2025
Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit. It's the first of November. Yeah, really, already. The clocks roll back tomorrow, everything everywhere is pumpkin spice, and ... sigh ... Christmas displays have been in stores for weeks already yet. So... what's up next?...
A raw apology
There was a little girl Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good, She was very very good, And when she was bad, she was horrid. Yep. That pretty much sums up The Legal Genealogist's view of auto-mailer technology. So... about...
Coming up: October-November 2025
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...
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