Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Robert Charles Anderson, FASG, best known for the definitive Great Migration series published by the New England Historic Genealogical Soc...

From my new talk, "Why We Don't Write and How We Can" (which is a larger first cousin of my 2012 blog post of similar title):...

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

If you're wishing that this post was about another NGSQ article, then you might be interested in the course Kimberly Powell and I are...

Thirteen years ago, the best minds in genealogy, under the aegis of the Board for the Certification of Genealogists, published a manual of ...

Genealogy has two kinds of rules. The genealogical proof standard is the substantive kind. Leaving out an element – by not writing the proo...

How do you prove that your great-great-great grandparents were NOT married? How do you deal with a great stroke of genealogical luck? We don...

Maybe you think the internet has altered the fundamentals of genealogy research. Maybe you think BCG and ICAPGen and the Genealogical Proof ...

When I was a more serious chess player, I often ran into guys (almost always guys) who had learned the game well enough to routinely beat ev...

Yesterday there was a thought-provoking discussion on LinkedIn's "Genealogical and Historical Research" group , based on a rea...

The complex-evidence case study may be the hardest piece of the portfolio to choose; it was for me. We have to pick a non-trivial problem an...

If there were a single portal through which every beginning genealogist had to pass, I would plaster Dick Eastman's recent post, "B...

I see some tension between genealogy and patriotism, since genealogy is mainly about families. And of course relatives have a way of crossi...

Today's report is truncated because I spent most of the day involved with the Association of Professional Genealogists -- meeting, lunch...

Most researchers have trouble with the idea that you can prove an identity or relationship even if you never find a piece of paper that says...

What does it mean to complete a "reasonably exhaustive search," as required by one of the five prongs of the Genealogical Proof St...