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IGHR 2022 registration opens Saturday!

by | Mar 15, 2022 | General | 0 comments

You snooze, you lose There are just four days to go. Four days to get ready. Four days until Saturday rolls around. Which is The Day not to sleep in if you’re hoping to get in on an unparalleled opportunity for genealogical education and fun — otherwise...

NGS and its grand SLAM

by | Mar 11, 2022 | General | 0 comments

Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, March 15 It’s one of the lead-off events of the 2022 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference, Our American Mosaic. It’s going to be fun. It’s going to be free. And the deadline for being part of it is coming...

RootsTech Day 1 snippets

by | Mar 4, 2022 | General | 2 comments

Talking heads and phone scans In case there’s a genealogist anywhere in the world who’s been under a rock for the past few months, yes, RootsTech 2022 did kick off yesterday as a totally virtual — and totally free — online conference. As it is...

Coming up: March-April

by | Mar 1, 2022 | General | 1 comment

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist has a busy schedule coming up. And I absolutely want to invite you along, to the extent possible, on the trip… Here’s an overview of what’s coming up in March, and we’ll go ahead and take a peek at...

Taking a stand

by | Feb 24, 2022 | General | 11 comments

… at this moment in history No words are needed. Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Taking a stand,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 24 Feb 2022). (Image: Nicholas Raymond, Ukraine Grunge Flag, CC BY...

Gen-Fed 2022 goes virtual

by | Feb 23, 2022 | General | 3 comments

COVID uncertainty spurs shift The Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed, for short) announced late Monday that its 2022 session will be held virtually rather than in-person at the U.S. National Archives during the week of 8-13 August 2022. The...

A Valentine’s Day rabbit hole

by | Feb 14, 2022 | General | 3 comments

A court case for the day The Legal Genealogist freely confesses to being an unrepentant law geek. So what else was I to do on Valentine’s Day but see what kinds of court cases might mention Valentine’s Day? And boy… did I ever end up down the rabbit...

Snow day!

by | Feb 13, 2022 | General | 5 comments

… can’t make me … For some technical reason that The Legal Genealogist is trying to figure out, yesterday’s post didn’t post. Which means today’s post didn’t get written. Which also means … sigh … I don’t...

Get a GRIP for 2022

by | Feb 9, 2022 | General | 3 comments

Registration opens Wednesday, February 16 Mark your calendar. Sharpen up your mouse skills. Get your fingers limber and ready. Because one week from today — Wednesday, February 16th — registration opens for both sessions of the first of this year’s...