Has anybody out there still not subscribed to the smart, knowledgeable, uncluttered weekly collection of links from the University of Wisconsin's Internet Scout Report?
If so, this would be a good week to take a look. It's almost as if Midwestern Microhistory had a secret agent there! Starting at the center of this blog's geographic interest and working out:
Digitized Civil War letters from Illinois (Northern Illinois University)
Photos from Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo College)
Oral histories of Route 66 in Missouri (Missouri State University)
Central Pennsylvania landscape, landscape architecture, and architecture (Penn State University)
Old New Hampshire maps and atlases (University of New Hampshire)
Archive of Early American Images, 1600s-early 1800s (Brown University)
Even when we want to, it's not always easy for genealogists to find their way to the resources of academia. This outlet -- either as weekly newsletter or as web site -- is worth the time for that reason alone.
Harold Henderson, "Illinois Civil War, Kalamazoo, Route 66, and more -- what's not to like?," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 16 May 2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
Friday, May 16, 2014
Illinois Civil War, Kalamazoo, Route 66, and more -- what's not to like?
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Saturday, April 5, 2014
April speaking engagements
April 15, 6 pm EDT -- Plymouth IN, Marshall County Historical Society: "Beyond Fort Wayne, Madison, and the Newberry: Welcome to the Other Midwestern Archives"
April 21, 7 pm EDT -- Kalamazoo MI, Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society: "Land and Property: The Records No Genealogist Can Do Without"
Harold Henderson, "April speaking engagements," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 5 April 2014 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : viewed [date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
So many sources, so little time
I'm going to use this heading to accumulate sources that I run across when I'm supposed to be doing something else -- and because I kept on doing that something else, I can't tell you anything more about the sources than where they exist.
As far as I know, like most sources, they aren't on line. Some are immediately useful; some I have no idea what I would do with them, it's just wonderful that they're out there.
At Western Michigan University's Archives & Regional History Collections: microfilm, "Kalamazoo Airport Register, 1920-1941."
At the La Porte County (Indiana) Historical Museum, in a binder on the library shelves: Fern Eddy Schultz's 1987 map series of changing La Porte County and township boundaries, from the legal descriptions at the time. So far I have not found anything comparable on line (that is, a full series of documented maps showing a particular county's township boundaries and their changes), although this handsome Bay County, Michigan, site comes close.
"Kalamazoo Airport Register, 1920-1941," microfilm, Western Michigan University Archives & Regional History Collections, Kalamazoo.
Fern Eddy Schultz, historical boundary maps of La Porte County, Indiana, townships, 1987 binder; La Porte County Historical Museum, La Porte.
Marvin Kusmierz, "Michigan Map History Relevant to Bay County, Michigan," updated October 2005, Bay-Journal: Portal to the Past and Present of Michigan's Great Lakes Bay Region (http://www.bay-journal.com : accessed 23 April 2012).
Harold Henderson, “So many sources, so little time,” Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 5 May 2012 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you mention it on line.]
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Indiana resources in Michigan
(Please forgive the cross-posting.)
If you had a genealogical problem in La Porte County, Indiana, the first place you'd look would be Kalamazoo, Michigan, right? No, but it should be somewhere on your list.
The Western Michigan University Archives & Regional History Collections' on-line catalog reveals two resources for "LaPorte":
* LaPorte County News Collection, 1902-1908, collection no. A1274, three reels of microfilm of the Union Mills La Porte County News from Union Mills. The Indiana State Library's excellent collection holds only one issue of this newspaper.
* Minnesota Historical Society Collection, 1834-1926, no collection number, containing papers of James Mandigo 1834-1891,with a scrapbook that at least mentions his attendance at Indiana Medical College in La Porte.
In this index as in many others, the search term "LaPorte" brings up different results from "La Porte." It's all part of our incompletely digested French heritage.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010
More resources in Kalamazoo
In addition to this previously blogged site, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, has a diligent genealogical society with a wide variety of unusual resources searchable on line, including insurance applications, suicides, peddling permits, and vigilance organizations.
They recently got a nice writeup from Valerie Beaudrault in the NEHGS's E-News (#470, 17 March), which actually has more detail on the resources than I could find on the KVGS web site.
Current projects in the works include databases of non-residential burial permits, women voters 1917-1936, and Kalamazoo County coroner's inquests. Volunteer here to help.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
The ultimate online resource for Kalamazoo
There's a good meeting scheduled for Kalamazoo nine days from now, but if you just can't make it, don't despair -- there's an excellent online site for that county, combining indexes and digital images of original records. You're going to wish your ancestors camped there in 1830 and never left.
Let me count the goodies at the bare-bones site kalamazoogenealogy.org:
vital records indexes and images (page by page in the original books), with a link to local library information;
cemetery transcriptions and (some) images;
"family trees";
directories (for the city, nine between 1860 and 1915), transcriptions and images;
school yearbooks 1859-1976, transcriptions and images;
WWI veterans;
Schoolcraft Express obituaries 1917-1972 with a link to the Kalamazoo Library database; and
probate 1831-1857.
I found useful information about my only relative in the county, a peripatetic stonecutter, and his wife and children. Those of you with more relations here will have a blast.
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