Reprise: what’s in a name?
When the name’s not what you wanted The Legal Genealogist is headed to Indiana this weekend, for a two-day bash at the Indiana Historical Society. Tomorrow evening, we’ll explore Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law, and then on...Dividing things up in California
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. This is going to be a very busy week here at The Legal Genealogist, as the spring conference season is in full swing and there’s a lot of preparation going on. So in honor of this...A guide to the laws of war
Digitized 1919 source book In case you hadn’t noticed, The Legal Genealogist is a law geek. I mean, seriously. As in perfectly willing to stay up until all hours reading geeky stuff like, oh, the Mutiny Act of 1689.1 Or the Articles of War from 1775.2 Or the...That Dred-ed decision
Not even on Page One It wasn’t even front page news, one hundred and sixty years ago yesterday. It was only on page 4 of the New York Herald.1 In the Richmond (Virginia) Daily Dispatch, page 2.2 Most newspapers didn’t carry the news until March 9th, when...Paying the fees… or else
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. On the 12th of September 1890, the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, entered an order in the case of Mary Lee Boyle et al. vs. Helen Winn et al. The decision, in Chancery, provided in...Learning from the law
Not the politics of the day A toughening of immigration and naturalization laws sending a clear signal to immigrants that they are, in general, not welcome here. Even legal immigrants under threat of removal from the United States whenever the President deems them...Born today
Two not-so-dissimilar men Today, the 19th of January, marks the anniversaries of the births of two remarkable American men. On this day in 1807, in Stratford Hall, Virginia, a son was born to the aristocratic Lee family. The child was named Robert Edward Lee.1 And on...The friendly intervenor
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. In November of 1860, the Indiana Supreme Court was called on to review a case from the Morgan County Court of Common Pleas. (You’d never guess, of course, that The Legal Genealogist is heading...Oh yes… Tennessee goodies…
Supreme Court cases! Ancestors from Tennessee, anyone? If so, oh boy, is there a neat new resource you have got to check out. It’s an online index and ordering system for Tennessee Supreme Court case files. And while we can’t sit there in our bunny...Subscribe
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