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Genealogy education in person So… just how much did it hurt last week, sitting there at home and watching all those posts — photos, videos and more — of genealogists getting together in person at RootsTech in Salt Lake City? To The Legal Genealogist,...Coming up: March-April 2026
Upcoming presentations Rabbit rabbit rabbit! It’s the first of March (even if this email doesn’t go out until the 2nd because of a tech glitch!), a day on which The Legal Genealogist expected to be explaining gleefully that, no, she wasn’t going to...Coming up: February-March 2026
Upcoming presentations Ordinarily, about this time of the year, The Legal Genealogist would be joking about how it could possibly be February already and moaning about where the time has gone. But The Legal Genealogist lives in Virginia. In the part of Virginia that...On this day, remember
Make remembering matter more Today, the 27th of January, is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.1 And today The Legal Genealogist received an email from Jennifer Mendelsohn and Dr. Adina Newman, Co-Founders and Lead Genealogists of the Holocaust Reunion Project. A...An apology worth repeating
To the families of the victims… Here, in 2026, on this federal holiday marking the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., there is an apology worth repeating. It begins with a story from some years ago. The Legal Genealogist’s first cousin once removed just...Coming up: January-February 2026
Upcoming presentations And here we are again, at the beginning of another year. Which, of course, means that things are ramping up for 2026 here at The Legal Genealogist. Here’s a look at what’s coming up on the schedule, and as always I’d love to...Rules of my road: 2026
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...Happy New Year 2026!
Fourteen years and counting… Fourteen years ago today, on the first of January 2012, the very first post appeared here at The Legal Genealogist. It explained that: My purpose in writing The Legal Genealogist is, in part, to help folks understand the often arcane and...The Official TLG 2025 Thank You List
To the hosts and more of 2025 Wait just a minute here. Hold on. It isn’t really already…? How can it be…? Seriously…? Can it really be the end of 2025? Yep. Here we are again, coming up fast on the end of another busy year, and a time to step up and acknowledge all...Subscribe by Email
