Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

All four of my presentations this fall are in the Eastern time zone, even though I myself am in Central. Check your calendar and join in the...

Have you squeezed out all possible information about your ancestors' Indiana marriages? Probably not if you haven't checked for so...

The Indiana Historical Society has added 150 photographs to its collection, depicting Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Jackson, Jenni...

The Indiana Historical Society processed 278 new collections in October and November, and mentioned 31 of them in the March/April issue of I...

Some new and not-so-new things I've learned about Indiana lately: Eva Mendieta writes about Mexican-American mutual aid societies in I...

Besides containing one of the premier genealogy libraries -- the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center -- and hosting next year'...

The Indiana Historical Society acquired many items in June and July. Three that caught my eye: * James Joseph Buss, Winning the West with...

Back from a trip, and a lot of genealogy has been happening "back home in Indiana": * The September issue of Indiana Genealogist...

My favorite from the June issue of Indiana's online quarterly, Indiana Genealogist (IGS members only), is Ron Darrah's instructiona...

As a member of the Indiana Historical Society , every other month I get a newsletter, INPerspective , in the postal mail from the society. ...

The excellent genealogy newsmagazine Ohio Genealogy News has made an improvement: in addition to its print publication, it now provides on-...

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...

Indiana's semi-annual genealogy magazine The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections , from the state historical society, has a number of artic...

For those with an interest, my feature article about the Indianapolis Orphan Asylum, entitled "Early Midwestern Orphanage," has ju...

Indianapolis is not my native habitat -- it's farther away than Chicago, and the only reasonable way to get there is to drive -- but nev...

Apparently the best way to browse the 551 items in the Indiana Historical Society's Northwest Territory collection is to go to their mai...

The new issue of the semi-annual The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections (Spring-Summer 2010) is out, with a focus on the interconnections bet...

What were your ancestors singing? Four institutions have partnered to produce the web site IN Harmony: Sheet Music from Indiana , with about...

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

If you can't find some new inspiration and new records to investigate from reading the fall/winter 2008 issue of The Hoosier Genealogist...