Tennessee from A to Z
The names in the petitions There are very few record sets The Legal Genealogist loves more than legislative petitions. The right to petition for redress of grievances has been part of Anglo-American history since the Magna Carta in 1215.1 A resolution of the House of...Virginia’s waste lands
The Fairfax grants Reader Kathi Jacobs discovered that an ancestor received two land grants in early Virginia that had some language in the documents she wasn’t quite sure of. “My 6x great grandfather George Edgington obtained land grants from Thomas Lord...Columbus Day quiz answer
… not as expected! So The Legal Genealogist threw out a question to readers yesterday, Columbus Day, 2018. When did Columbus Day first become an official federal holiday? Quite honestly, in getting ready to write a quick blog post about the holiday,1 I...“To the entire exclusion of the said Lorenzo”
Desertion and divorce in the law books You can never tell what stories you might stumble across in the law books. Yeah, yeah, The Legal Genealogist knows you’ve heard this before, but it really is amazing what you might run into just poking around in the law...The court of inquiry… and more
Records of the Civil War online It was the second most deadly battle of the Civil War. The Battle of Chickamauga, fought 18-20 September 1863, resulted in roughly 34,000 casualties — second only to the Battle of Gettysburg.1 And it cost two Union generals their...Empire State laws
Republishing the Manhattan Past list Once upon a time, there was a website called Manhattan Past. It had a lot of goodies on that site, but the one The Legal Genealogist used most often was its list of the laws of New York, from its earliest colonial times through to...A postcard to the Postcard site
Support Old Fulton New York Post Cards! It’s a website with the improbable name of Old Fulton Post Cards, though it has very little to do with post cards and — these days — not that much to do with Fulton, New York. The website is definitely funky....Recording the FBI
How to get the records The Federal Bureau of Investigation is one of the nation’s top law enforcement agencies — and one of the most perplexing for genealogists when it comes to getting records. Its history begins in 1908 after a Civil Service statute put...America’s first daily
Genealogy and the free press It wasn’t the first newspaper in America, but it was the first daily newspaper in America. It was called the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, and it began publication in Philadelphia on September 21, 1784 — exactly 234...Subscribe by Email
