2018 alphabet soup: L is for…
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. If this is Friday it must be… Um… What day is it again? The Legal Genealogist is home from the 2018 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, hosted by the Georgia...2018 alphabet soup: K is for…
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. It’s IGHR week this week — the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research enters its third day this morning in Athens, Georgia, with nearly 300 avid genealogists studying...Reprise: the commonwealths
The difference The question came up again yesterday from a reader — the same one that had reader Mary Simons puzzled by a few years back. “I used to live in Pennsylvania,” Mary wrote back in 2012, “and now I live in Tennessee. Some of my ancestors are from...Reprise: as the river flows
Iowa in Nebraska There is something distinctly disconcerting about driving down a perfectly straight road between Eppley Airfield — the Omaha, Nebraska, airport — and the City of Omaha. As The Legal Genealogist discovered this past weekend, while going to...Those damn dams
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. Did you ever stop and think about the situation our ancestors faced when they wanted to build a mill and needed to dam a watercourse to provide the water power...2018 alphabet soup: J is for…
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. Once again, The Legal Genealogist has absolutely no idea what time it is. Or even what day it is. Once again, I’m Down Under, in Australia, for the 15th Australasian Congress on...Preemption and land law
A fancy name for squatter’s rights When an ancestor benefited from federal preemption laws, just what exactly was he getting — and why? The Legal Genealogist is off deep into the federal land laws as the result of a reader question — and there will...A matter of relation
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. The story that reader Charles William Meiser found in the newspaper article was a wonderful one for a genealogist. Under the headline “Mary’s little lamb”...Term of the day: assignee and more
The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines. There are always so many deadlines. And February 1 is no exception, so The Legal Genealogist is still hip- (or neck-)deep in...Subscribe by Email
