Immediate, ultimate, proximate Reader Trudie Davis-Long was puzzled by some of the terminology found in death certificates she's seen. In some cases, the word used to described the cause of death was “ultimate.” In others, “proximate” (on some forms, “proximal”). Modern death certificates add in
... consider genealogy... The Legal Genealogist has no idea where the whole GivingTuesday thing began. Yes, even Wikipedia says it got its start in 2012 as “the brainchild of Henry Timms at the 92nd Street Y in New York” with a “co-founding organization,” the United Nations Foundation.[1. Wiki
Forty-three reasons in particular Thanksgiving has always been The Legal Genealogist‘s favorite holiday. Focusing on — in this order — family, food and football, it’s one of the low-stress holidays even if an occasional feast runs into a glitch with a turkey taking longer than expected or a si
"Hi, honey! I'm hoooooome!" Yeah, The Legal Genealogist knows it's been a looooong time. But moving to another state at the same time as a long-planned-long-delayed vacation-and-conference trip to Australia is happening can really put a crimp in a blogger's schedule. No, it wasn't supposed