Indiana bound
Indiana resources So The Legal Genealogist is winging her way westward this morning, to Indianapolis and the two-day event at the Indiana Historical Society that gets underway tonight. It’s a fun evening that awaits folks tonight, when we look at Blackguards and...Reprise: what’s in a name?
When the name’s not what you wanted The Legal Genealogist is headed to Indiana this weekend, for a two-day bash at the Indiana Historical Society. Tomorrow evening, we’ll explore Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law, and then on...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...California’s original state charter
Setting the stage for statehood It is an extraordinary document, this record of early California. One of only two such documents in the history of that western state. And extraordinary in its own right. It is the Constitution of 1849.1 Yes, The Legal Genealogist is...Counting California
That one state census The first time the population of California was ever recorded in a United States census was 1850. At that time, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of that western territory-and-soon-to-be-state was 92,597 men, women and...The women of Sacramento County
Going it on their own They weren’t at all rare. It happened all the time. The Legal Genealogist found that the court records and even the newspapers of the day are full of the reports: • On the 23rd of February 1880, the application of Eliza J. Limbaugh was...Be it resolved…
Read the resolutions The question is one of the “Frequently Asked Questions” on the National Park Service website for the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.: “What is inside the Washington Monument?” The answer, in part, is that: “The interior walls are lined...A private matter
Recorded forever in the laws The Legal Genealogist believes it 100%: there isn’t very much in genealogy that’s quite as much fun as a good juicy divorce. Divorce records often disclose details we can’t find elsewhere: things like the maiden names of...Subscribe
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