IGHR 2024 registration tomorrow!
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
2w ago
You snooze, you lose Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. Saturday, March 9th. The Day not to sleep in if you’re hoping to get in on an unparalleled opportunity for genealogical education and fun — the last of what The Legal Genealogist calls summer camps for genealogists scheduled for this year. Because tomorrow, Saturday, March 9th, is registration day for the all-virtual 2024 Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), which kicks off with orientation on Sunday, July 21st, and classes to be held Monday-Friday, July 22-26, this year. The Legal Genealogist will be back at IGHR for this virtua ..read more
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Overlooked gems
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
2w ago
Institute courses that deserve another look Registration is already open for one of this year’s summer institutes for genealogical education, and registration will open for another on Saturday. These two — what The Legal Genealogist calls “summer camps for genealogists” — offer a wide variety of courses, some of which are well known and tend to fill up very quickly. My own courses, at both the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) where registration is already open, and at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) where registration opens this Friday, March 9, te ..read more
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GAMECHANGER!!!
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
3w ago
BIG news from FamilySearch at RootsTech FamilySearch today opened public access to an experimental search function that can search every word of text — including every name — even in handwritten documents that haven’t been indexed by the hordes of volunteers who generally go through records to make them searchable by name. It’s using artificial intelligence to read the handwriting and return results in thousands upon thousands of record sets that aren’t yet every-name-indexed on FamilySearch — and would never otherwise be every-word-searchable. No, it’s not every record FamilySearch holds. Ri ..read more
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Get a GRIP for 2024
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
1M ago
Registration opens Tuesday, February 20 So you didn’t make it to the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January. And you sat there the whole time watching people who share your interests learning new things and having fun… without you. And you’re starting to feel distinctly left out … Never fear. There are lots of options for expanding your genealogical education in 2024, and the first of this summer’s institute programs — two weeks of sessions at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) — will open for registration tomorrow, Tuesday, February 20. For the first week — all virt ..read more
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The unavailable SS-5
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
1M ago
When we don’t get what we asked for Reader Barbara Dottino had an unpleasant surprise when she asked the U.S. Social Security Administration for a copy of a relative’s SS-5 form. She wanted a copy of the original application for a Social Security number. But that’s not what Barbara received in response to her request: “I recently requested an SS-5 and they sent me an OAC-790,” she wrote. “On this document it indicates that the original SS-5 was sent to PC on 5/29/1969. Where is PC? I thought the SS-5 would show her parents names, etc. They indicated that this is all that available. How can tha ..read more
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Coming up: February-March 2024
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
1M ago
Upcoming presentations Hard to believe January 2024 is already in the bag and February is here! The Legal Genealogist has already had a busy year and there’s more — much more — coming up fast. And, as always, I want to invite you to come along, to the extent possible, on the trip. Here’s an overview of what’s coming up in February, and we’ll go ahead and take a peek at March — and yep, it’s going to be really busy not even including institute classes I’m teaching where registration has already closed… February 2024 • Saturday, 10 February, 11 a.m. EST: The Hudson County (NJ) Genealogical & ..read more
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BIG win on USCIS fees
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
2M ago
Final fee rule announced by USCIS Gentle people, we won. Pure and simple. The final rule adopting new fees for the genealogy program at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was published today and… We won. Starting April 1, 2024, the fees for some of the most common genealogy records requests at USCIS will actually be coming down, rather than going up. And the fees that are going up are going up by a lot less than had been threatened by the agency in its rules proposal in January of 2023. Yeah. We won. As proposed the rule would have increased the fee for genealogy record ind ..read more
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Ordering the SS-5: 2024 style
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
2M ago
Higher fee, new SSA website So… you want a copy of that ancestor’s application for a Social Security number, do you? You can get it. But it’s going to cost you more than it used to, and there’s a new web page that the Social Security Administration wants you to use to order it. Welcome to the process of ordering an SS-5 form, 2024 style. In the four years since The Legal Genealogist last addressed this,1 the fee has gone from $21 to $28 for a copy of a Numident and $30 for a copy of the SS-5 form itself2 and the Social Security Administration has migrated these requests — made under the Feder ..read more
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Another Ancestry TOS update
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
2M ago
Things that are, things that shouldn’t be, maybe things to come So just four months after the last update to its terms and conditions, Ancestry yesterday released yet another set of amendments to the rules of its road. For the most part, there’s nothing in the changes that most users will be surprised by. In terms of things that are there currently: • The Terms and Conditions now include an explanation of what it calls recommender systems: Ancestry Hints, Ancestry Search and My Ancestry Feed. The new language basically says these will suggest content to users and may contain personalized adve ..read more
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That silly scilicet
The Legal Genealogist
by Judy G. Russell
2M ago
Unimportant legal lingo As many times as The Legal Genealogist has said we need to read every single solitary word in our legal documents, there’s a simple truth that shouldn’t be forgotten. It’s not all important stuff. Some legal lingo is pure boilerplate. It’s not worth getting ourselves in an uproar over. And there’s one such boilerplate bit of legal lingo that you’ll often see on legal records like this one: That’s part of one page of an 1859 marriage book from Platte County, Missouri.1 Note the indication “Sct” in the heading of the first marriage, and “SS” in the heading of the later o ..read more
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