Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

 The time is 1823. The place is Fort Wayne. Indiana has been a state for seven years. The dismayed writer is William H. Keating, who has jus...

Genealogy is local, but we're not. Often we need access to newspapers in distant places. Some digitized titles are available by subscrip...

Newspapers tie Midwesterners back to New England in two articles in the spring edition of the New England Historic Genealogical Society'...

Joe Beine's recent blog post of newly added online death indexes includes the following Midwestern entries: Illinois -- Vermilion Count...

The Allen County Public Library's free e-zine "Genealogy Gems" comes to my mailbox on the last day of every month. Most welco...

Check out page 300 in the previously blogged Appletons' Railroad and Steamboat Companion , a summary of the five-day, 1500-mile trip fro...

I've mentioned Jack Dempsey's Michigan Civil War blog before , but this would be a good time to revisit it if you don't regular...

I love the hard-core genealogical journal articles that follow a logical trail of deductions. But I also love hearing how people's finds...

That's Jasia's long-running blog Creative Gene . Whether she's hosting a blog carnival about contacting living relatives , mulli...