CORRECTION: GRIP 2025
GRIP in person and virtual Yeah, right, oops. The Legal Genealogist goofed. The email that went out about GRIP registration was correct except... The in-person week is at the University of Pittsburgh, not at LaRoche University. So here's the scoop, stated correctly...
Get a GRIP for 2025
Registration opens Tuesday, February 4 An awful lot of folks in the genealogical community had long sad faces last week. Watching online all week along as people who shared their interests in learning new things were doing just that at the 2025 Salt Lake Institute of...
Coming up: February-March 2025
Upcoming presentations It's what? February already??? Yes it sure is, and The Legal Genealogist is sprinting into the new month with lots of upcoming events. As always, there's fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you're invited to come along, to the extent...
Call to action: New York!
Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family history -- including medical family history -- is being threatened...
Honoring the dreamer
Continuing the dream Today, in the United States, it is a federal holiday to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we remember the dreamer. And we continue to work towards the dream. “I have a dream,” he said, on August 28, 1963, a...
That ticking clock…
One last chance for SLIG 2025 classes The clock is ticking fast for one last chance to take advantage of one of the best educational opportunities genealogy has to offer. It's what The Legal Genealogist calls winter camp for genealogists[1. Hey, it's January, so it...
New public domain images!
The Public Domain Image Archive launches It's always a good day when The Legal Genealogist comes across a new source of public domain images. These are, after all, by definition, images that are free for us to use, without restriction and without concern of any kind...
Milestones 2025
Looking back to 2024, forward to 2025 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 begin,...
Coming up: January-February 2025
Upcoming presentations And we're off! Yes, off to a fast start to this new year here at The Legal Genealogist -- ramping up for 2025. As always, there's fun stuff coming up on the schedule, and you're invited to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip. So......
Rules of my road: 2025
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 necessary, or at least...
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