Judy Russell is coming to Menlo Park in October for a full day seminar. It is being held on November 1, 2014. Location is 1105 Valparaiso Avenue in Menlo Park, California. The cost is $42.00 for the day and $8.00 for lunch. The registration for the conference begins at 8:00 am with the classes starting at 9:00 and going until 3:00 pm. Judy is brilliant, entertaining a master storyteller and lecturer that travels far and wide with her classes. She just won first place and the Gold Metal in a contest where 150 people had been nominated at the best genealogist of the year.
The lectures are a series of 4 classes is entitled:
"A Day In Court With The Legal Genealogist"
Where There Is --Or Isn't A Will
The Fair Court--Records of Chancery Courts
POlls Personality and Property--Making sense of Tax Lists
From Blackstone to Statutes At Large--How Knowing the Law Makes Us Better Genealogists
Check out a sampling of her posts on her blog and decided if you'd like to go. A one day conference is one the best way to learn about something. There is something about the time invested that makes it stick longer in your mind so you can actually use the information. Think about it. Check it out.
The following text and the two photos are from
Judy's Blog.
Welcome to The Legal Genealogist!
My name is Judy Russell. I’m a genealogist with a law degree, and my purpose here at
The Legal Genealogist
is, in part, to help folks understand the often arcane and even
impenetrable legal concepts and terminology that are so very important
to those of us studying family history. Without understanding the
context in which events took place and records were created, we miss so
much of both the significance and the flavor of what happened.
I hope you’ll find your questions answered here, and invite you to
send along any question you have that you’d like answered. There’s a
link at the top of every page (“
Ask TLG”).
My personal background is, well, eclectic. I have a bachelor’s degree
in journalism with a political science minor from George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. and a law degree from Rutgers School of
Law-Newark.
I’ve worked as a newspaper reporter, trade association writer, legal
investigator, defense attorney, federal prosecutor, law editor and, for
more than 20 years, I've been an adjunct member of the faculty at
Rutgers Law School.
I’m a Colorado native with roots deep in the American south on my
mother’s side (from Virginia to Texas and just about everywhere in
between!) and entirely in Germany on my father’s side. It's an odd mix,
finding records of my ancestors from 1680 Virginia on one side to being a
first-generation American on the other.
I’ve spent the last decade learning my trade as a genealogist, and hold credentials as a Certified Genealogist
SM and Certified Genealogical Lecturer
SM
from the Board for Certification of Genealogists® where I currently
serve as a member of the Board of Trustees. I’m a member of the
National Genealogical Society, the
Association of Professional Genealogists, and, among others, the state genealogical societies of
New Jersey,
North Carolina,
Virginia,
Texas and
Illinois.
I’ve attended the
National Institute on Genealogical Research (NIGR) at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and completed Elizabeth Shown Mills’ course in
Advanced Methodology and Evidence Analysis and Thomas W. Jones’ course in
Writing and Publishing for Genealogists at the
Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research
(IGHR) at Samford University. I'm privileged now to serve on the
faculty at IGHR, at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), at the
Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), and at Boston
University’s Center for Professional Education.
I’ve written for both the
National Genealogical Society Quarterly (see Judy G. Russell, “`Don’t Stop There!’ Connecting Josias Baker to His Burke County, North Carolina, Parents,”
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, March 2011, 25-41) and the
National Genealogical Society Magazine (see Judy G. Russell, “Autosomal DNA testing,”
National Genealogical Society Magazine, October-December 2011, 38-43, and “Fifty years of credentialing,”
National Genealogical Society Magazine, January-March 2014, 15-19).
I lecture on a wide variety of genealogical topics, ranging from
using court records in our family history to understanding DNA testing.
My current lecture list is in the Lecture link above, and I’d be happy
to discuss new topics with any group interested in having me speak. Feel
free to
contact me about your particular needs.
