Researching the Yellowhammer State
A resource for research in the Heart of Dixie Here are the quick facts: • It was admitted to the Union on 14 December 1819 — so this year it celebrates its bicentennial. • It was named after an Indian tribe. • It was originally part of Mississippi Territory. •...The courts versus the Family Bible
Always always doublecheck Everything about the entries in the Family Bible says they should be believed. Those two final deaths entered on the family pages were written in two different inks and two different handwritings — or at least by one person at two very...Reprise: remembering the internees
The stain on American honor It began 77 years ago yesterday. February 19, 1942. The day when the United States began rounding up and locking up more than 100,000 men, women and children who had committed no crime except to arouse the fears of their neighbors. Men,...Naming names in Arizona
In the statute books too Today is the day The Legal Genealogist toughens up and does that terribly hard thing that’s been looming in the schedule this week. After all, I’m speaking Saturday at the 2019 Seminar of the West Valley Genealogical Society, and...The defense of coverture
He told me to… There’s a concept in the law called duress. It’s defined as “unlawful constraint exercised upon a man whereby he is forced to do some act against his will.”1 And it was very much on the minds of the very first lawmakers in what was...Changing gears
… legally speaking … Sometimes just knowing what the law is, isn’t enough. Sometime what we need to know is how and when the law changed. After yesterday’s blog post about expatriation and some of the records created by repatriation,1 a reader...Meanwhile, in Scotland…
Back to the language of the law It’s one of those great moments in the movies — when a bit of dialogue is uttered and everybody knows it’s going to be heard over and over and over again. It was in the film Princess Bride. And the bit of dialogue,...Happy birthday, Mr. Hamilton!
Here’s to 230 years of Treasury records The text for the post Today’s Document, posted each day by the U.S. National Archives, is short and sweet: Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757, the illegitimate son of a poor itinerant merchant. He would...Sourcing the lingo
Law dictionaries online It was a particularly timely question that came in from reader Kellye Hawkins. Just after The Legal Genealogist had given a virtual presentation this past Saturday to the Florida Genealogical Society – Tampa about legal lingo and how to...Subscribe by Email
