The laws Down East
Look elsewhere for the answer Reader Noel Ferre found himself perplexed. “I found a court record, Maine 1695,which states only ‘Abraham Preble, married contrary to law,’” he wrote. “What would the law have been at that time?” A great question, because it reminds us...What doth it profit a man…
Profits and the tax codes So The Legal Genealogist was talking about taxes yesterday, in the Legacy Family Tree webinar “A Taxing Matter: Using Tax Lists in Genealogy,” and one term seemed to give some folks some problems. The term: profits. And the problem was that...The end of microfilm
An inconvenience… We all knew this day was coming. The Legal Genealogist and everyone else who has been watching the slow but steady demise of the microfilm business over the past several years could see the handwriting on the wall. FamilySearch and the Family...Sanborn online at LOC
A gift from Sanborn and the Library of Congress The genealogical community got the first installment of what’s going to be a fabulous gift for research when the Library of Congress announced yesterday that nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps have gone...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...Subscribe
Subscribe by Email
Subscribe by Email