Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Trying to pinpoint a landless research target in the 1850 census between his landowning neighbors, I realized I needed to see if they were a...

Hamlin Garland is not now a household word, if he ever was, and his late-Victorian writing style hasn't helped. But those seeking a real...

I shouldn't have been surprised -- but I was when I opened the April 2013 New York Genealogical and Biographical Record and found mysel...

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

One of the greatest services a genealogist can do for colleagues and researchers everywhere is to publish results that distinguish families ...

Indiana has an author in the new July 2011 issue of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record . Dawne Slater-Putt, CG, of the Allen ...

The Internet Scout Project dates back to the DOS and maybe even the green-screen Apple era, and they're still at it. Recently they highl...

Those who do 20th-century Midwestern genealogy may already know about this series of county histories whose most desirable feature at this ...

Ever since I discovered the existence of agriculture schedules for the 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses, I've been so amazed that I c...

Thanks to the helpful folks on the Transitional Genealogists list , I have now purchased and read James W. Oberly's detailed study, Sixt...

You think the census is wrong? Way wrong? Read this article to get an idea of what you may need to do to prove it. Midwesterners are the mai...

This year a kind and generous Santa brought me The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, an 1891-page behemoth edited by Richard ...

Marian Pierre-Louis on the APG email list points to an article in the Daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa) , about a Memorial Day observance invo...

Where better to get buyer's remorse than when you buy a book or CD amid the excitement of a genealogy meeting? It's a definite risk....

The wonderful Genblogfinder tempts me to stretch my definition of the Midwest: On our far right-hand side, Pittsburgh will be hosting the A...

We're used to reading technical articles about ferreting out who's who in colonial New England. The new (December) issue of the Nati...

Dennis Partridge reports on his blog Genealogy Research that he's adding biographies from John Forkner's 1914 History of Madison Co...