Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Sunny Jane Morton and I have just published How To Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records: A Genealogist's Guide, with specific...

During the 1800s, even ancestors who would end up staying home often tried going West to see how it suited them. My great-grandfather spent ...

I'll be speaking Saturday, March 21, at the 17th annual Michiana Genealogy Fair, sponsored by the South Bend Area Genealogical Society ,...

Everybody dies. Many have probates. A few leave wills. Therefore, all serious genealogists consult probate records in their research. Now ...

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...

Genealogists don't hibernate during the winter -- we go to Salt Lake City for the APG Professional Management Conference, immediately fo...

When a grown man gives his mother three different names over more than half a century, you know you've got trouble. That evidence was th...

The old web site introduction seemed a little long-winded, so I'm trying the following on for size: Welcome to Midwest Roots! I have ...

FYI -- hope to see you there! Next Friday (the 26th) I'll be speaking at the Ohio Genealogical Society conference in Cincinnati on ...

FamilySearch's uploading of more than 14 million New York probate images from 1629 to1971 is an immeasurable boon to genealogists with r...

It's not too late to drive over to Lafayette Saturday and hear Ron Darrah and me talk about genealogy all day (we alternate so as not to...

How to keep track of your research findings so that even you can find them and figure them out in a month or a year -- that's the subjec...

Archives.com has just posted my digest version of research on William Berry (1753-1839), who was born in Rhode Island, served in the Americ...

This morning I got the welcome news that my portfolio met the standards of the Board for the Certification of Genealogists and effective to...

My current brochure describing available genealogy lectures is posted at Midwest Roots . We've got orphans, the great research state of ...

My article with this title has been published at Archives.com . The stories are fragmentary, some funny, some horrific. If you don't use...

My spring talks are all in Ohio! There's plenty of time yet to register for these conferences, but beware: do not under any circumstance...

Quite a number of genealogists have written articles for Archives.com ; I enjoyed Claudia Breland's recent post on "Essential Recor...

I'll be speaking at the Lake County (Illinois) Genealogical Society's 19th annual workshop November 5 -- check it out if you're ...

. . . is the title of my article just published on Archives.com . Most records genealogists deal with were not created to answer our quest...