It’s fun!
Really!
Trust me—I’m a lawyer!
Let’s face it: we Americans are a mouthy bunch, and telling politicians what to do is one of the great American sports. We’ve been at it since colonial days, and in “‘To the Honorable, the General Assembly’: The Treasure Trove in Legislative Petitions,” you’ll see the genealogical goodies that can be found in legislative petitions.
It’s fun! Really!
In “Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law,” the BCG Luncheon on Thursday, you’ll see that no, actually, our ancestors really didn’t behave better than folks do today. And for sheer entertainment, there’s nothing like the records of ancestors behaving badly.
(I told you it was fun.)
Then in “From Blackstone to the Statutes at Large—How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists,” you’ll find out how the law affected genealogical records, and how today it affects how we do genealogy: how we access records and places like cemeteries.
See? It’s fun! Come on. Trust me—I’m a lawyer!
Wednesday, 11 a.m., W125, “‘To the Honorable, the General Assembly’: The Treasure Trove in Legislative Petitions”
Thursday, 12:15 p.m., T231, BCG Luncheon, “Blackguards and Black Sheep: The Lighter Side of the Law”
Saturday, 2:30 p.m., S443, “From Blackstone to the Statutes at Large—How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists”
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