2019 alphabet soup: A is for…
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. Yep, The Legal Genealogist is back on the road. (I’m sure that will come as a shock… not…) It’s the start of the 2019 institutes as the 2019 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy gets underway, and Rick...A different question
A special guardian for what child? Reader Bridget Wanderer was baffled. The court record she’d come across just didn’t make sense. She knew that her grandmother Gladys was enumerated living with her father, stepmother and grandfather Forrest H. Mitchell in...Sourcing the lingo
Law dictionaries online It was a particularly timely question that came in from reader Kellye Hawkins. Just after The Legal Genealogist had given a virtual presentation this past Saturday to the Florida Genealogical Society – Tampa about legal lingo and how to...About that religious term…
“To the Worshippful County Court” Reader Michael Lee Stills had a “stop and think” moment looking at court records from Greene County, Tennessee, filed in 1877. He was looking at probate records involving a widow’s claim for the set-off of dower and a homestead...The rules of guardianship
20th century Maryland style Reader Katie Garner is facing a very typical issue for genealogical research: the issue of guardianship for the child of a person who has died. Her specific question is how to find out when a guardianship was required, and how long —...It’s a fine mess
Or a post-fine mess… It’s truly a fine mess that reader Perry Streeter landed The Legal Genealogist in with a question that hit the blog this week. In an abstract at the National Archives of the United Kingdom, he came across a reference to a transaction...That landed estate
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. Reader Debbie Hadley wasn’t having any luck. “I’ve spent the evening leafing through all kinds of texts on real property,” she said, but they...Virginia’s waste lands
The Fairfax grants Reader Kathi Jacobs discovered that an ancestor received two land grants in early Virginia that had some language in the documents she wasn’t quite sure of. “My 6x great grandfather George Edgington obtained land grants from Thomas Lord...Those other kinds of rents
The modern version of a quitrent So… Earlier this week, The Legal Genealogist explored the practice of quitrents in colonial America. Specifically in colonial Maryland1 and in colonial Virginia.2 Quitrents, of course, were a kind of land tax, payable to the...Subscribe by Email
