Judy G. Russell
@legalgen.bsky.social
Genealogist, photographer, owned by Ragdolls
Not all veterans are honored equally. Let's take time today to honor those most often overlooked. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/11/11/v...
Veteran’s Day 2025
Honoring the forgotten veteran So many of The Legal Genealogist's family members are being honored today in the United States. Today. November 11. Veterans Day. First proclaimed in November 1919 by President Wilson,[1. “Veterans Day,” WWPL Blog, posted 22 March 2019, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum (https://www.woodrowwilson.org/blog/ : accessed 11 Nov 2025).] Armistice Day [...]
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November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Not all veterans are honored equally. Let's take time today to honor those most often overlooked. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/11/11/v...
I'm really excited about this new two-part workshop I'm doing with Family History Academy! Coroner's records are so rich in information -- and, frankly, so fascinating for research in the US, UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, even Ireland. C'mon out and join us, Wednesdays (7 pm US ET), starting Oct 8!
Understanding Coroner's Historical Records
Course participants will gain practical experience working with actual coronial records from different periods and places, building skills in interpreting case details, witness statements, and inquest...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I'm really excited about this new two-part workshop I'm doing with Family History Academy! Coroner's records are so rich in information -- and, frankly, so fascinating for research in the US, UK, Australia, NZ, Canada, even Ireland. C'mon out and join us, Wednesdays (7 pm US ET), starting Oct 8!
It is, once again, September 11. And, once again, it is time to stop, to reflect, to remember... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/09/11/y...
Year 24… never forget…
24 years later... It was 24 years ago today. A stunningly beautiful day, one of those early fall days in the northeast that fills your heart with joy as you inhale the crisp morning air under deep blu...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
It is, once again, September 11. And, once again, it is time to stop, to reflect, to remember... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/09/11/y...
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/07/04/j...
July 4, 2025
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands w...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/07/04/j...
A "new" federal holiday -- for an event 160 years in the past. And definitely worth celebrating! #Juneteenth #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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Juneteenth 2025
A cause for celebration It's only been a federal holiday for four years. But it isn't new... not at all. It all started back 160 years ago today, on the 19th of June 1865. Juneteenth. That's the day o...
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June 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A "new" federal holiday -- for an event 160 years in the past. And definitely worth celebrating! #Juneteenth #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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t's the start of the season for summer camp for genealogists -- and The Legal Genealogist hopes to see you there! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/06/02/c...
Coming up: June-July 2025
Upcoming presentations It's June already! That means we're here at the start of the summer institute season. GRIP’s virtual session, then MAAGI’s hybrid courses, then GRIP’s in-person session, then… N...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
t's the start of the season for summer camp for genealogists -- and The Legal Genealogist hopes to see you there! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/06/02/c...
Remembering Philip... and those who knew him. Memorial Day 2025. #Genealogy #familyhistory
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Memorial Day 2025
Once again remembering the fallen and those who remembered them It is Memorial Day here in the United States–the official holiday and the end of the three-day weekend during which we honor those who g...
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May 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Remembering Philip... and those who knew him. Memorial Day 2025. #Genealogy #familyhistory
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Okay, we genealogists HAVE to come off the sidelines. Enough is enough is enough already yet -- hands off the libraries, archives and museums! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/05/09/e...
Enough already yet!
Hands off the libraries, archives and museums! The words were written by a Lutheran pastor years before The Legal Genealogist was even born: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out ...
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May 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Okay, we genealogists HAVE to come off the sidelines. Enough is enough is enough already yet -- hands off the libraries, archives and museums! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/05/09/e...
Conferences, webinars, and institutes, oh my... The Legal Genealogist has a busy upcoming schedule... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/05/01/c...
Coming up: May-June 2025
Upcoming presentations The Legal Genealogist has been slacking. Well, if you consider traveling overseas and prepping roughly a kazillion lecture handouts slacking at least... In any event, it's the f...
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May 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Conferences, webinars, and institutes, oh my... The Legal Genealogist has a busy upcoming schedule... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/05/01/c...
The regime change has hit hard in the genealogical community. Bad enough when politics caused the firing of the National Archivist. But slashing the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) funding???? So much for commitment to veterans and their families...
March 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The regime change has hit hard in the genealogical community. Bad enough when politics caused the firing of the National Archivist. But slashing the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) funding???? So much for commitment to veterans and their families...
Surprised and pleased to have viewers give this the highest ranking for a February webinar! Free online through March 5. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory familytreewebinars.com/webinar/shoo...
Shootout at the Rhododendron Lodge: Reconstructing Life-Changing Events - Legacy Family Tree Webinars
A 1929 shootout left the Bath County, Virginia, sheriff dead. Learn to follow the trail through all the records to reconstruct a life-changing event, and...
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March 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Surprised and pleased to have viewers give this the highest ranking for a February webinar! Free online through March 5. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory familytreewebinars.com/webinar/shoo...
From RootsTech to Connections to Lighting Up Genealogy, March and April are packed with family history happenings! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/03/01/c...
Coming up: March-April 2025
Upcoming presentations Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit. Well, that's what The Legal Genealogist is told we need to say on the first day of the month, right? And here it is, the first of March already. Which me...
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March 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
From RootsTech to Connections to Lighting Up Genealogy, March and April are packed with family history happenings! #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/03/01/c...
A memory from SEVENTY years ago... and a birthday to remember. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/02/28/a...
About this getting older bit…
Seventy years ago today The Legal Genealogist is simply astonished by this photograph. Oh, it's a truly sweet image, no doubt about that. I mean, what's not to like about an incredibly smug older sist...
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February 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A memory from SEVENTY years ago... and a birthday to remember. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/02/28/a...
Mark your calendar! Registration opens Saturday for IGHR 2025 courses. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/02/26/i...
IGHR 2025 registration Saturday!
You snooze, you lose Three days to get ready. Three days until Saturday rolls around. Which is The Day not to sleep in if you’re hoping to get in on an unparalleled opportunity for genealogical educat...
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February 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Mark your calendar! Registration opens Saturday for IGHR 2025 courses. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/02/26/i...
Presidential libraries are being impacted by the "slash and burn" tactics of the Musk team. The Kennedy Library yesterday had to close, then reopen, then who knows what will happen because of staff cuts.
February 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Presidential libraries are being impacted by the "slash and burn" tactics of the Musk team. The Kennedy Library yesterday had to close, then reopen, then who knows what will happen because of staff cuts.
The Archivist of the United States has been fired in the purge.
February 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Archivist of the United States has been fired in the purge.
Glad to have been able to write this blog post for Black History Month, and in thanks for all that HeinOnline does to support genealogical education (they're always helpful in our law-related classes!!). home.heinonline.org/blog/2025/02...
Genealogy's Hidden Stories: How Legal Battles Revealed Family Histories - HeinOnline Blog
This post features a guest author, Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist®. A genealogist with a law degree, Judy explores the intersection of law and family history. Her insights reveal how legal rec...
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February 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Glad to have been able to write this blog post for Black History Month, and in thanks for all that HeinOnline does to support genealogical education (they're always helpful in our law-related classes!!). home.heinonline.org/blog/2025/02...
GRIP registration opens today!! Great courses, including an intro law course Rick Sayre and I are co-coordinating (teaser: field trip to the law library!!) in the July week.
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Get a GRIP for 2025
Registration opens Tuesday, February 4 An awful lot of folks in the genealogical community had long sad faces last week. Watching online all week along as people who shared their interests in learning...
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February 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
GRIP registration opens today!! Great courses, including an intro law course Rick Sayre and I are co-coordinating (teaser: field trip to the law library!!) in the July week.
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Breaking News: Thanks to the KDLA, Indexed Kentucky Chancery Case Files (1799-1850) are now digitized online! These General Court records, available on the Kentucky State Digital Archives, cover early land disputes and more. #genealogy
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February 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Breaking News: Thanks to the KDLA, Indexed Kentucky Chancery Case Files (1799-1850) are now digitized online! These General Court records, available on the Kentucky State Digital Archives, cover early land disputes and more. #genealogy
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It is clear that data critical to genealogy (and other disciplines) is being systematically stripped from federal websites. Census Bureau data IS being removed, and census data geeks at IPUMS verify and are taking whatever steps they can to preserve the data for the future. Scary times we live in.
February 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It is clear that data critical to genealogy (and other disciplines) is being systematically stripped from federal websites. Census Bureau data IS being removed, and census data geeks at IPUMS verify and are taking whatever steps they can to preserve the data for the future. Scary times we live in.
Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
Call to action: New York!
Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family h...
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January 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
@mariannedgarbudde.bsky.social Thank you have having the courage to speak truth to power.
January 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
@mariannedgarbudde.bsky.social Thank you have having the courage to speak truth to power.
I'm thinking of vacation spots for 2026. Either a beach vacation to the Gulf of MEXICO, or maybe a mountain trip. I've always wanted to see DENALI.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I'm thinking of vacation spots for 2026. Either a beach vacation to the Gulf of MEXICO, or maybe a mountain trip. I've always wanted to see DENALI.
January 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
As we honor the dreamer, we pledge to continue to work towards the dream. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/20/h...
Honoring the dreamer
Continuing the dream Today, in the United States, it is a federal holiday to commemorate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Today we remember the dreamer. And we continue to work towards...
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January 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As we honor the dreamer, we pledge to continue to work towards the dream. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/20/h...