O my country…
Our children keep paying the price... This was written and posted on Facebook in February 2016. Six years ago. Think about how many we have lost to this sickness since then. How many more of our little innocents have to pay with their lives until the rest of us force...
It’s a crime
Maintenance as an offense There is -- ulp!! -- just one week to go before the 44th annual conference of the National Genealogical Society begins in Sacramento, California. Themed Our American Mosaic, this conference will draw speakers, exhibitors and attendees from...
Two’s not the charm…
About that "closest" match... It was one of The Legal Genealogist's goals for 2022: to identify the nearest as-yet-unidentified autosomal DNA match at each of the major testing companies. Solving the first one, at MyHeritage DNA, was easy, thanks to some very big...
The tidbits of May
Love the local papers... One of the great joys of being a 21st century genealogist is sitting there, at 3 a.m., in your bunny slippers, and finding out little bits and pieces about your ancestors that you never would have known any other way. For The Legal...
NGS registration closing
Register online TODAY This is it. Today's the day. Online registration for the 2022 National Genealogical Society Conference closes at 7:59 p.m. Eastern time today, Friday, 13 May 2022. Whether your plans now allow you to travel in person and join The Legal...
A matter of local law
Remember the mantra! Okay, fans of The Legal Genealogist, here's your pop quiz for today. What's the mantra around these parts? Yep, you know it. You can probably recite it in your sleep: If we want to understand the records, we have to understand the law -- at the...
About that mama’s age
Was she really that young? A reader wasn't quite convinced it wasn't a typo. He'd read the post about The Legal Genealogist's maternal line, and was struck by one fact. “I see your 2nd great grandmother gave birth to your great grandmother when she was only 13 or 14...
Mother’s Day 2022
And five generations... It's Mother's Day here in the United States. It's DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist. So what else could I possibly do? Yep. Five generations of mitochondrial DNA, haplogroup H3g. Me. My mother Hazel (Cottrell) Geissler, 1926-1999. My...
Stories cut short
Musings on a Mother's Day weekend... There is such a difference between the two sides of The Legal Genealogist's family. On my mother's side, going up that maternal line, sure, I know the names of my mother, grandmother, great grandmother, second great grandmother,...
Ancestry releases 1950 index
The whole thing, AI-created It was already a game-changer when, on the first of April, the 1950 U.S. census images were released by the U.S. National Archives (NARA): using handwriting recognition software, NARA had produced a basic down-and-dirty index of that census...
Subscribe by Email
