Join us for our 2025 Annual SLRC Genealogy Lecture with Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist, who will present four lectures:

• That First Trip to the Courthouse
• Courting America: Using Court Records for Genealogy
• Where there Is -- or Isn't -- a Will
• Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions: The Family Black Sheep

The event will be held both in-person and online.  Registration is required for both.  To register for the event, complete this form.  

Judy G. Russell is a genealogist with a law degree who writes, teaches and lectures on a wide variety of genealogical topics.  Russell is a a Certified Genealogist® and Certified Genealogical Lecturer from the Board for Certification of Genealogists® and a member of the National Genealogical Society, the Association of Professional Genealogists, as well as numerous state genealogical societies. She also serves on the faculty at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), the GRIP Genealogy Institute (GRIP), the Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI), and the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed).

She has written articles for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the National Genealogical Society Magazine, and BCG’s OnBoard newsletter, among others.  In 2025 she was named a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Association, received the UGA Silver Tray Award in 2015 and the Award of Excellence from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly in 2017. 

Her blog, which has been chosen several times as one of the American Bar Association’s top 100, appears on her website at www.legalgenealogist.com.