What began in 2022 as a one-paragraph public records request has morphed into a full-blown court fight over who owns digital copies of Pennsylvania’s historical records. Are they the property of the commonwealth? Or are the documents — which include birth and death certificates, veterans’ burial cards, and slave records — fully controlled by a …
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Happy Boxing Day!
If you are unfamiliar with Boxing Day, you might want to read the Wikipedia description at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day.
Word of the Day: Grandfamily
I recently read this word online but did not know it’s meaning. As a genealogist, I am a bit ashamed that I did not know the meaning of the word. According to Dictionary.com: grandfamily [ grand-fam-uh-lee, fam-lee ]SHOW IPA nounplural grand·fam·i·lies. a family in which one or more children live with and are raised by their grandparent …