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Showing posts with label Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Law. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Local Laws in Indiana on line, a sampling

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We think of laws as general and impersonal, but legislatures also pass "private" or "local" laws directed to individuals...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Mostly Midwestern genealogy finds on and off the web

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* The summer issue of the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly includes a well-cited article by Charlene Preston Mundy, "Five...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

NGS Day Three (Friday the 11th)

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At this stage of a national conference, many of us are operating like the elevator we tried to ride down in our hotel this morning: arriving...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Common Law in Colonial America

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I picked up a copy of William E. Nelson's slim volume, The Common Law in Colonial America, volume 1, The Cheseapeake and New England, 1...
Friday, May 28, 2010

ALL the laws of Illinois

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Do you need to know what the divorce law was in Illinois in 1851? 1887? Western Illinois University and the Illinois State Library have digi...
Friday, February 26, 2010

A different take on 19th-century law

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On H-Net, Timothy S. Huebner reviews Laura F. Edwards's new book The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of In...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Eavesdrop on the lawyers

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Texas-based researcher Debbie Parker Wayne has a nice list of legal books and resources with genealogists in mind, including some by state ...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Methodology Monday in Indiana Courthouses

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Not all evidence analysis takes place after we've found it. In 1981 Indiana State Archivist John J. Newman gave a talk at the state hist...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Wisconsin Legal History, anyone?

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For references to books, and a large helping of short articles by Joseph A. Ranney, author of the most recent book ( Trusting Nothing To Pro...