The other rangers
Rangers, North Carolina style It popped up in a volume of Rutherford County, North Carolina, court minutes. The County Court of Rutherford County held an election for an office The Legal Genealogist had never associated with North Carolina. The office of County...The meaning of that word
What invalid means in military parlance Reader Carol Bickel was stumped: “I cannot find a good definition for the meaning of ‘Invalid’ on the jacket of a military record.” And what it means here is a really good question, isn’t it? Because The Legal Genealogist...No, actually, it’s not…
Not Presidents’ Day at all It’s the third Monday in February in the United States — and you know what that means. CNN has a headline today: “Here’s what’s open and closed on Presidents Day 2023.”1 Fox News has a “Presidents Day quiz! How well do you...Releasing the land
About that lease and release… You’ll see it all over the land records of colonial America. In one document, person A leases the land to person B. And in another, often a day or two later, and sometimes even on the same day, person A releases the land to...Kids these days…
… no different than kids those days … The reader’s tone was a little smug… and a little uncertain. John T. had read about the six-year-old in Virginia in custody for shooting a teacher and sounded a typical “kids these days” note. “At least our...The laws of Christmas: 2022 reprise
It wasn’t always a holiday Here in the holiday season of 2022 — another crazy pandemic-impacted year — The Legal Genealogist is trying again to hang on to as many holiday traditions as possible. Which, given the latest surge in the latest variant...Labor Day 2022
First Monday in September The Cleveland Public Library. The University of California at Berkeley. The University of Kentucky. The University of Montana. The University of Texas at Arlington. Columbia University. The Meyer Library of Missouri State University. The...A matter of local law
Remember the mantra! Okay, fans of The Legal Genealogist, here’s your pop quiz for today. What’s the mantra around these parts? Yep, you know it. You can probably recite it in your sleep: If we want to understand the records, we have to understand the law...About that mama’s age
Was she really that young? A reader wasn’t quite convinced it wasn’t a typo. He’d read the post about The Legal Genealogist’s maternal line, and was struck by one fact. “I see your 2nd great grandmother gave birth to your great grandmother when...Subscribe by Email
