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Get a GRIP for 2024

Registration opens Tuesday, February 20 So you didn’t make it to the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January. And you sat there the whole time watching people who share your interests learning new things and having fun… without you. And you’re starting to feel...

Coming up: February-March 2024

Upcoming presentations Hard to believe January 2024 is already in the bag and February is here! The Legal Genealogist has already had a busy year and there’s more — much more — coming up fast. And, as always, I want to invite you to come along, to...

Coming up: January-February 2024

Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist is getting back into the swing of things here in 2024, and as always the year is getting off to a fast start. And, as before, I want to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip… Here’s an overview of...

Rules of my road: 2024

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 2024!

Twelve years and counting… Twelve 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 2023 Thank You List

To the hosts and more of 2023 Wait just a minute here. Hold on. It isn’t really already…? How can it be…? Seriously…? Can it really be the next to the last day of 2023? Yep. Here we are again, at the end of another busy year, and a time to step up and acknowledge all...

That RootsTech keynote…

By special demand… Recently, on Facebook, friend and genealogical colleague Pat Richley-Erickson recalled hearing a keynote given at the RootsTech conference in 2014. It was by The Legal Genealogist, and entitled Just Three Generations, and Pat and a few others...

The returns of the 2023 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...

Sixty years ago today

Childhood’s end It was sixty years ago today when childhood ended. At least The Legal Genealogist’s childhood. There may not have been all that much remaining, that bleak day in November 1963. I was, after all, a child who learned to curl up in a ball in...