Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

In the March National Genealogical Society Quarterly I traced a Smith family from central Iowa in 1870 back to eastern Indiana in 1850. It ...

Missouri now has arguably the best on-line information about prisoners , including PDFs of the log book including any identifying scars. Two...

In order to use the relevant part of the FamilySearch collection of Vermont town records -- specifically those from Underhill, Chittenden C...

Joe Beine's Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records has new material for twelve lucky Midwestern counties: Illinois: Cook, DuPage...

In addition to the nine links posted last year , two additional research aids are available on my web site : Wisconsin Small City Director...

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

Digitized newspapers are everywhere, but so many different outfits -- both free and commercial -- are getting in on the act that it can be h...

  Meredith Thompson in the December 2013 Indiana Genealogist : "When railroads began to connect Indiana with the rest of the country...

Joe Beine has added or updated online records for 14 Midwestern (and many other!) counties at his Genealogy Roots Blog: Illinois:  DuPage ...

There's an old saying, "When you're tired of London, you're tired of life." Well, when you get tired of browsing this ...

The indefatigable Michael John Neill points us to a treasure trove of Illinois statutes at Western Illinois University , both compiled st...

The National Genealogical Society is looking for the 29th person to be inducted into the National Genealogy Hall of Fame , at its Richmond...

A certain kind of information can come in handy when genealogy gets complicated. It might be primary, secondary, or undeterminable; for this...

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

Joe Beine has posted latest updates on death records. From the Midwest we have: ILLINOIS: obituary indexes from Alexander, Cook, Pulaski,...

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...

Continuing our holiday observance of free, here are five indexes and four finding aids available in full for your consultation at Midwestro...

It's a famous midsummer holiday, and what better to celebrate than free? Midwestroots.net now offers free lookups in 16 resources (actua...

The Genealogist , published twice yearly, is one of the less well known of the top five US genealogy publications. The Spring 2013 issue inc...

Researchers can find information on more than 27,000 medical people with some Indiana connection at the Indiana University School of Medicin...