2017 alphabet soup: A is for…
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. No, A isn’t for Antipodes, although that is the part of the world where The Legal Genealogist is today. And it isn’t for Auckland, where I’m to be one of the speakers at this...Soliciting the law
The difference in lawyers So… it happened again yesterday. The Legal Genealogist had some fun describing the training for a barrister in the English system, and its history, and its records.1 The Inns of Court system isn’t something we use in the United...The temples of England
Educating the lawyers Reader Leighton Symonds was perplexed. “In reviewing documentation on a William Marbury (1524-1581), Anne Hutchinson’s paternal grandfather, he was said to have been admitted to the ‘Middle Temple’ in 1551,” he wrote. “The definition of...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...On the frontlines of the law
The office of the constable So The Legal Genealogist is still poking around in Ohio legal resources this week, preparing for this weekend’s spring seminar at the Hamilton County Genealogical Society — and was confronted with a challenge. One of the...More Virginia lingo
Not just in Virginia… It’s a Virginia day! It’s actually an entire Virginia weekend!! The Legal Genealogist is off to the Old Dominion today for the Fairfax Genealogical Society 2017 Spring Conference in Falls Church, which gets underway at the...Virginia is for sharing
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. So The Legal Genealogist is getting ready to pack it up. Not permanently, no. Just for the weekend. To the Fairfax Genealogical Society 2017 Spring Conference in Falls Church, Virginia, which gets...… And sealing-wax
The place of the seal “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax– Of cabbages–and kings– And why the sea is boiling hot– And whether pigs have wings.” — Lewis Carroll,...A grand sight
And a grand new site At a Special Court of Oyer and Terminer and Jail Delivery held at Corydon in the County of Harrison on Monday, the seventh of March, 1814, 18 men found themselves cast into a role they would not likely have held, at least not often, before that...Subscribe
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