Not so fast!
Read those terms before you click It's been a few months since The Legal Genealogist focused on terms of use, or terms of service, which means a whole host of user questions have come in with the usual plaint. “But nobody told me that!” Sigh. Yes. They really did. And...
Cautious good news
About that USCIS fee hike It's called EO 14012. EO for Executive Order. Signed on 2 February 2021. Published on 5 February 2021. With an official citation of 86 FR 8277 and the fancy title: “Restoring Faith in Our Legal Immigration Systems and Strengthening...
Persistence and the dates
Keep checking back One of The Legal Genealogist's favorite ancestors is Isabella (Gentry) Robertson. A favorite because she's such a challenge -- married before the 1850 census and without a single surviving vital record (no birth, marriage or death record at all) --...
A matter of genearosity
No, that's not a mistake A matter of genearosity, huh? The Legal Genealogist assures you, that's not a typo. It's not misspelled. It's the title of a new quarterly webinar series offered by the Virtual Genealogical Association, and it's one I'm delighted to be the...
NGS 2021 goes virtual
Richmond conference pivots to online The National Genealogical Society announced yesterday that its May 2021 conference will be all-virtual, including five days of live events and presentations and a wide variety of on-demand talks. The...
On beyond great and grand
More on the great versus grand issue Nearly six years ago, The Legal Genealogist definitively resolved the question of whether the child of a niece of nephew would be a grandniece or grandnephew or a great niece or great nephew. Definitively. Snort. Because the...
Finding Margaret’s mother: the end
And, of course, the beginning... It began as one of The Legal Genealogist's earliest DNA-can-help-with-this mysteries. The post ran on the first of July 2012 -- that's eight-and-a-half years ago -- and I was “Looking for an Alabama relative”: someone willing to take a...
Falling off the edge
Figuratively speaking The Legal Genealogist has not fallen off the edge of the world. Well... Maybe... In a way... Figuratively speaking, anyway. January is SLIG season. For those who aren't familiar with the acronym, it stands for Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. A...
Chalk and cheese
And reasons for loving libraries Nothing about the divorce has ever surprised The Legal Genealogist. My parents -- who were married 73 years ago tomorrow -- were as different as chalk and cheese. He was formal German immigrant. She was folksy U.S. southern -- of the...
From the Roots of a Tree: 2021
The genealogy of a national hero This year, perhaps more than ever, we need to remember. This year -- on the 15th of January, 2021 -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have turned 92 years old. He was born 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. And those of us old...
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