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... what's on the...
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 posts. With some...
TL;DR: Ancestry’s TOS update
Nothing to see here! So Ancestry yesterday released yet another set of amendments to the rules of its road. Yawn. Really. There's literally nothing in the changes to raise so much as an eyelash, much less an eyebrow. The changes as outlined by Ancestry itself are...
NARA NYC closing
Records moving to Philadelphia and Kansas City The Legal Genealogist candidly admits to having been really distracted from genealogy news in the past few months. Between the summer institute season and family gatherings and the ordinary affairs of life, I've not paid...
Coming up: August-September 2024
Upcoming presentations Oh, man, is this summer speeding by fast. The last of the summer genealogy institutes (summer camp for family historians!) is already underway this week as the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) is enthralling lucky students at...
July 4, 2024
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the...
For Juneteenth, the articles of enslavement
Ancestry’s free news article collection Ancestry is often the company genealogists love to hate. Along with every other subscriber, The Legal Genealogist would note that — sigh — it’s expensive. It’s often unresponsive to concerns. It makes changes to things that...
Today’s the day!
Registration to close for GRIP Virtual Dozens and dozens of genealogists are getting ready to be happy campers. In this year's first virtual summer-camp-for-genealogists, that is. The virtual week of the GRIP Genealogy Institute opens in just 10 days -- it runs June...
Coming up: June-July 2024
Upcoming presentations As June gets off to a start, it marks as always the start of the summer institute season. GRIP's virtual session, then MAAGI's hybrid courses, then GRIP's in-person session, then... Not to mention the individual talks for societies and libraries...
Memorial Day 2024
Remembering the fallen It is Memorial Day here in the United States–the official holiday and the end of the three-day weekend during which we honor those who gave all for the cause of American freedom. It was added to the federal holiday calendar in 1888 as Decoration...
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