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The language of the law. Part Latin, part Anglo-Saxon, all confusing. So The Legal Genealogist is getting ready to pack it up. Not permanently, no. Just for the weekend. To the Fairfax Genealogical Society 2017 Spring Conference in Falls Church, Virginia, which gets...Reading every word
The tidbits in the tables… More than once, The Legal Genealogist has said it. To understand the records, we have to understand the law — and not just in general, but the specific law in the specific time and specific place where the record was created.1...A guide to the laws of war
Digitized 1919 source book In case you hadn’t noticed, The Legal Genealogist is a law geek. I mean, seriously. As in perfectly willing to stay up until all hours reading geeky stuff like, oh, the Mutiny Act of 1689.1 Or the Articles of War from 1775.2 Or the...In the swamp
Those other land acts The puzzlement of The Legal Genealogist over the migration of an ancestor from Alabama to Arkansas between 1850 and 1860 led to some research being done by readers, and some suggestions being offered. And one in particular needs some more...A challenge for Arkansas
Digitize that book It’s always such a pleasure for The Legal Genealogist to go poking around in digitized volumes of early statutes. There’s always something to learn, in the pages of those early laws. About the way people thought in a particular time and...Women in the Land of Opportunity
A place to start It is a statute almost unimaginable in its time and place. Passed by a territorial legislature far from the urban centers of the nation where it might have been expected. And it is noteworthy in so many ways. The statute? One The Legal Genealogist...A grand sight
And a grand new site At a Special Court of Oyer and Terminer and Jail Delivery held at Corydon in the County of Harrison on Monday, the seventh of March, 1814, 18 men found themselves cast into a role they would not likely have held, at least not often, before that...The extraordinarily ordinary
The Laws of 1862 It is, so much, an ordinary book of laws. And yet… and yet… And yet there is so much that is so very extraordinary. In so many ways, so much what the Florida Legislature did that term, when it met in the First Session of its 12th General...Drawing the lines
The changes in Florida county borders “Beginning at the northwest corner of township thirty-one south, of range thirty-five east.” That’s the way the law begins. … thence east on the line dividing the townships thirty and thirty-one south, to the point...Subscribe by Email
