In just six months…
… how life can change… It’s hard to imagine how things could be any more different than they were just six months ago. It was almost exactly six months ago that The Legal Genealogist finally pulled the trigger. And started writing a totally new...Not through with ThruLines
… even when they’re frustrating The Legal Genealogist owes readers an apology. Between the June week of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) and a hard-to-diagnose technical issue with the website, the blog has been really quiet this...The man holes
The missing fathers on Father’s Day Like every family history researcher, The Legal Genealogist has them. Those “man holes” in the family tree. The places in the branches where a father should be. And on this Father’s Day here in the United States, taking...DNA favor
I neeeeeed this one The Legal Genealogist has determined that Francis Marion Robertson appears in dozens of family trees on Ancestry. And I Do Need A favor on this one. List him with the right parents and grandparents, wouldja? His mama, Samantha (Battles) Robertson,...Memorial Day 2022
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...The tidbits of May
Love the local papers… One of the great joys of being a 21st century genealogist is sitting there, at 3 a.m., in your bunny slippers, and finding out little bits and pieces about your ancestors that you never would have known any other way. For The Legal...About that mama’s age
Was she really that young? A reader wasn’t quite convinced it wasn’t a typo. He’d read the post about The Legal Genealogist’s maternal line, and was struck by one fact. “I see your 2nd great grandmother gave birth to your great grandmother when...Mother’s Day 2022
And five generations… It’s Mother’s Day here in the United States. It’s DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist. So what else could I possibly do? Yep. Five generations of mitochondrial DNA, haplogroup H3g. Me. My mother Hazel (Cottrell)...Stories cut short
Musings on a Mother’s Day weekend… There is such a difference between the two sides of The Legal Genealogist’s family. On my mother’s side, going up that maternal line, sure, I know the names of my mother, grandmother, great grandmother, second...Subscribe by Email
