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Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist is putting on traveling shoes here at the start of 2023 — lots still vir…

… and around the world There are days when the morning news makes The Legal Genealogist smile. And days when it make…

Fan and Ana and Mary and … It’s Black History Month here in the United States, a time for all of us to benefit from le…

January 2023 update is routine Yes, Ancestry has once again updated its privacy rules. No, it’s nothing to be concern…

Elly, Paul, the censuses… and the divorce… There is no question of the relationship of the couple on the 1930 census. …

The language of the law. Part Latin, part Greek, part law French, even part Anglo-Saxon. And all confusing. It’s winte…

Elly and the husbands Okay, The Legal Genealogist has had it with Elly. Elly Emma Martha Maria Geissler Nasgowitz Fr…

GEDmatch changes hands again in Verogen sale It isn’t mentioned on the website of GEDmatch, the third-party DNA tools …

About that lease and release… You’ll see it all over the land records of colonial America. In one document, person A …

… no different than kids those days … The reader’s tone was a little smug… and a little uncertain. John T. had read a…

Where they are today So The Legal Genealogist was poking around on Ancestry today, and justforthehellofit decided to …

Looking back to 2022, forward to 2023 The very best part of falling headlong into family history research is the stori…