Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

World War II brought 20,000 jobs to rural La Porte County, where the county seat had a total population of only 16,000. Workers commuted up ...

Dave Bakke, a columnist for the State Journal-Register newspaper in Springfield, Illinois (home of this September's FGS meeting), has c...

Lots of good stuff in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections , from the Indiana Historical Society: "Rese...

You might recognize Harrison County as the home of Indiana's first state capital, Corydon. But did you know it was also home to a group ...

Two book reviews from social history spotlight books that can illuminate genealogy too: Jeannette Keith reviews Jack S. Blocker's A Litt...

The spring 2008 issue of Ohio Genealogy News pushes the upcoming annual conference (April 17-19 in Cincinnati) and describes the online im...