Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

It had to happen. My all-time favorite (living) fiction writer, Tana French, has a genealogist in the cast of characters in her new title, T...

That's the gist from computational biologists quoted in yesterday's Wired article by Megan Molteni: "GENOME HACKERS SHOW NO ONE...

* Being present Friday when my friend and colleague Karen Stanbary was presented the award for outstanding article published in the National...

Morna Lahnice Hollister skillfully weaves documentary and DNA evidence together to produce a 200-year male-line family tree for Luchion Gogg...

No, I will not retrace all the steps of Elizabeth Shown Mills's argument in the June National Genealogical Society Quarterly , "Tes...

The nationwide moveable village of genealogists appeared in the form of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh at La Roche Colle...

The April-June issue of NGS Magazine includes two introductory "gateway" articles (including further references) that can help us...

So you have a flash-in-the-pan ancestor with first and last names common as dirt who left no clues whatsoever after 1830, let alone 1850? Ch...

If your New Year's resolutions include getting more serious about genealogy, consider subscribing to the Board for the Certification o...

DNA, business, branding, writing, working for entertainment and corporate clients, and more: it's not too late to sign up at the earl...

"The eternal search for our ancestors is reaching its end game," claims the two-year-old on-line magazine The Verge , which cove...

Diana Dretske at Illuminating Lake County History posted a detailed appreciation of John Easton's 1844-1846 store ledger from the hamle...

Some folks sleep through the opening plenary session; today they missed the amazing story of the 1848 Cincinnati panoramic daguerreotype and...

Several admonitions are echoing in my mind from the Indiana Genealogical Society's day-long conference in Fort Wayne; other attendees...

The Demanding Genealogist by Barbara J. Mathews of Connecticut (methodology) -- for instance, "Playing Dominos: The Illumination of th...

Last week's email brought a welcome new issue of the Bassett Branches newsletter , AKA "Splinters from the Tree," from the Bas...