TOTS – Tech on Tuesdays
October 28, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Topic
Statutes to Stories
Understanding the laws that shaped the lives of our ancestors is essential to uncovering their stories, and this is the focus of Judy Russell’s engaging video, From Statutes to Stories: Finding the Law for Family History. This presentation highlights how statutes, charters, and common law can serve as valuable genealogical resources. Russell demonstrates how legal research, when applied systematically, reveals details often missing from traditional records,
enriching family histories with context and depth. With her background as both an attorney and genealogist, she makes complex legal principles accessible and shows how to translate them into meaningful narratives about our forebears.
By Judy Russell, pre-recorded