Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Fall brings a cornucopia for Hoosier-minded genealogists: * Thanks to cooperation between two librarians and the county historian , old ...

Two recent articles open up records and publications with a lot to say about the practice of medicine and the treatment of orphans in the la...

Good things in the current issue of the Indiana Magazine of History take a microhistorical view and use Civil War claims records some of us...

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

World War II brought 20,000 jobs to rural La Porte County, where the county seat had a total population of only 16,000. Workers commuted up ...

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

Links and unlinkable items of interest from the history side: W. Scott Poole teaches history at the College of Charleston and explains (se...

(Partly cross-posted from the La Porte County Genealogical Society blog . Sorry for any inconvenience.) Three from the Hoosier state: (1) Th...

Fifty years ago historian Richard Wade published The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities 1790-1830 , in which he argued that "Th...

If these two articles aren't to your taste, the first 102 years of the Indiana Magazine of History are on line. Nancy Hiller, "A ...

Have you ever wished you could be a fly on the wall at some point in the past? Then don't miss the current issue of the Indiana Magazine...

It's funny how you find things out. A note in the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society's August/September newsletter mentions t...

There may not be enough genealogy for some tastes in Riley B. Case's new Indiana Magazine of History article "'An Aggressive Wa...