Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Quietly, the Kane County, Illinois, Recorder's office has placed all of its deeds (and several other kinds of documents) on line. Basic...

More than a quarter of the current 64-page Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly is given over to letters describing northern Illin...

A striking cover photo highlights the main feature and makes the summer issue of the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly stand out...

This northern Illinois county, now a cluster of Chicago suburbs, is the only county I know where the county recorder has put its tract books...

I'm looking forward to catching up with this issue, which arrived during my hiatus . A lot of material here, including some from my home...

...digitized by Illinois Harvest recently. These are what we now call the "collar counties" of Chicago: Portrait and Biographical...