The laws of Christmas: 2018 reprise
It wasn’t always a holiday In keeping with The Legal Genealogist’s holiday tradition of keeping the blog going while scrambling to handle holiday duties, this post (a reprise from years past), has a question for you: Are you planning for a good rest in...The advent of numbers
Social Security numbers, that is… Reader Lori Jansen was looking for a little more background on the advent of numbers. Social Security numbers, to be precise, in the hopes that she might find some information about some of her family members. The question came...Why that adoption can’t be found
… at least not in that place After yesterday’s blog post about guardianships in early 20th century Maryland, reader John Roose said one line in that post explained a point for his research. The line: “Remember: the notion of formal adoption under the law...The rules of guardianship
20th century Maryland style Reader Katie Garner is facing a very typical issue for genealogical research: the issue of guardianship for the child of a person who has died. Her specific question is how to find out when a guardianship was required, and how long —...Hats off to another amendment
It was the 13th Amendment It really wasn’t the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the enslaved. Really. The Legal Genealogist doesn’t want to take anything away from the majesty of that document or the man –President Abraham Lincoln — who...Once again, thank you, Utah!
Eight-five years ago today This day is so wonderful to The Legal Genealogist that a blog post recognizing it should be automagically scheduled to run every year on the fifth of December without fail. As it is, this is the fourth time I’ve taken the time —...Veteran’s Day 2018
Honoring those who served In the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 — one hundred years ago today — the guns fell silent. On the battlefields of Europe, where war had raged for more than four years, the survivors breathed a...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...Subscribe by Email
