2021 top posts: all time
Atop the all-time leaderboard The Legal Genealogist is wrapping up a tenth year of blogging here as December winds to a close, and in that time has written more than 2,900 posts that have been viewed, in the aggregate, by millions of visitors who’ve left more...2021 top posts
The Legal Genealogist’s top posts for 2021 If anyone had posed the question even an hour ago — what were the top 10 posts at The Legal Genealogist in 2021? — the answer would have been exactly what it was one year ago. The answer would’ve been:...The returns of the 2021 season
What to do with the returns cash Okay. Let’s all admit it. Come on. Say it out loud and get it over with. Here… The Legal Genealogist will go first: Not everything we got for a holiday gift was a hit. Yep, folks, that soap-on-a-rope just isn’t quite...The Legal Genealogist’s Christmas & Holiday Wish 2021
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! From The Legal Genealogist to all those who have so enriched my life in 2021… I wish you the merriest of Christmases and happiest of Holidays! DisclaimerTerms and conditions may apply. Timely delivery of wishes from this server...The laws of Christmas: 2021 reprise
It wasn’t always a holiday Here in the holiday season or 2021 — another crazy pandemic-impacted year, The Legal Genealogist is trying again to hang on to as many holiday traditions as possible. Which, given the latest surge in the latest two variants,...The return of the light: 2021
Making it through another tough year Yesterday was the last 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century. And it was, of course, the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of this crazy mixed-up pivot-on-a-dime pandemic-ridden year here in the northern hemisphere: “On the...A change of plans
Tonight’s BCG webinar “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” So said Robert Burns in his poem “To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785.” And so echoes The Legal Genealogist here at the close of...Eighty years ago today
The attack on Pearl Harbor There is no-one alive today in The Legal Genealogist’s family who personally remembers that day, eighty years ago today. My grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles old enough to have a personal recollection of that day have all passed...Sluby Scholarship for 2023
Application deadline announced It’s no secret that the methodology for African American research has its own twists and turns on top of all the usual methodological complications of any genealogical research. That’s part of the reason why the African...Subscribe by Email
