Milestones 2026
Looking back to 2025, forward to 2026 There’s no doubt about it. The very best part of genealogy is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories that...A promise kept
Over all those years It was Christmas Eve 2003. And in what — I realize in retrospect — was an astonishing lack of understanding of the town where I’d arrived mid-afternoon, I drove into Staunton, Virginia, to take my older sister Diana to a holiday...In the final analysis…
What really matters In the nearly 13 years that The Legal Genealogist has been writing, death has come to visit far too many times. It’s taken three of my mother’s siblings in those years: my Aunt Carol in 2012.1 My Uncle Jerry in 2016.2 My Uncle David in...Veteran’s Day 2025
Honoring the forgotten veteran So many of The Legal Genealogist’s family members are being honored today in the United States. Today. November 11. Veterans Day. First proclaimed in November 1919 by President Wilson,1 Armistice Day became a national holiday by...Memorial Day 2025
Once again remembering the fallen and those who remembered them It is Memorial Day here in the United States–the official holiday and the end of the three-day weekend during which we honor those who gave all for the cause of American freedom. It was added to the...About this getting older bit…
Seventy years ago today The Legal Genealogist is simply astonished by this photograph. Oh, it’s a truly sweet image, no doubt about that. I mean, what’s not to like about an incredibly smug older sister getting to hold her newborn brother for the very...Milestones 2025
Looking back to 2024, forward to 2025 There’s no doubt about it. The very best part of genealogy is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories that...They called him Ernst
The end of the story His full name was Benjamin Franklin Ernest Schreiner, that little boy born in 1895. The first and only child of German immigrants, he was born on the fourth of July in Chicago, Illinois,1 and that birthdate is undoubtedly the explanation for the...Reprise: Of that Thanksgiving past
Pass the gravy, please… Sometime around 5 o’clock this afternoon, in a dining room in northern Virginia, members of The Legal Genealogist‘s family will sit down for what promises to be a fabulous Thanksgiving feast. My brother Fred and his lovely wife Nicole are...Subscribe by Email
