Keystone statutes
A source for early Pennsylvania laws What does it tell us about the kinds of things our earliest ancestors in colonial Pennsylvania were concerned about when the first 10 laws enacted by the Province of Pennsylvania in 1682 were: • Concerning liberty of conscience •...Mapping Labor Day
Interactive archives map Hard to believe, isn’t it? It’s Labor Day already! Where has 2019 gone? Kids back in school, days growing shorter… fall is right around the corner. As genealogists, we all appreciate Labor Day as a day off from work, a day when...Yet another resource
One more option for legal terms Earlier this week, reader Patricia Victor was puzzling out the meaning of the legal Latin term levari facias. She’d already tried an online version early edition of Black’s Law Dictionary1 — The Legal...Lone Star memorials
Texas legislative petitions online So The Legal Genealogist has spent the past few days in Texas, speaking at the Dallas Genealogical Society’s 2019 Summer Seminar and then doing some research. Into my family. Yeah, occasionally I do insist on doing my own...Ancestry and Arolsen
Digitization brings Holocaust-era records online Wolf and Moses Arm were Polish citizens when they sailed to the United States as displaced persons aboard the SS Marine Perch in August of 1946. Wolf was 16. Moses was 6. There weren’t any adults with that surname...Wayback it!
Archive those pages A friend and genealogical colleague was lamenting this week that information he curated and contributed to one of the genealogical wikis had disappeared in the course of later edits. The problem now appears to be curable and folks are trying to...In those legal records
The stories to be found How many times has The Legal Genealogist said it? There’s so much to be learned by simply sitting down and poking around in volumes of old legal records. Whether it’s a private law evidencing a soldier’s loss of an arm while...The new Creative Commons search
Fun, weird and sometimes frustrating One of the key ways to use copyright-protected material is to get a license. Now The Legal Genealogist wants you to stop panicking. That’s just a fancy legal word for permission. “Hey Mom,” you may ask, “can...Happy birthday, Homestead Act!
Signed into law 157 years ago today He was a Union soldier home on furlough, so the story goes. And he was determined not to lose his chance under a new law due to take effect on the first of January 1863. Due to report back to his unit in St. Louis, he prevailed on...Subscribe by Email
