Genealogy was so intertwined with the law in Colonial America — particularly abo

Genealogy was so intertwined with the law in Colonial America — particularly about inheritance — that genealogy practically was the law in ways we don’t fully understand today. Karin Wulf, a Brown University professor of history and the author of “Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America,” talked about the era at a recent Afternoons with the Library event, bringing a lost time period to life.
This lecture is available at the Library of Congress' YouTube page.

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https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2026/11/genealogy-in-colonial-america-the-ties-that-mattered/