Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Back in the day (when there had been only thirty-four presidents), I memorized all the presidents and their dates when they were featured wi...

Guerrilla war was the norm in Kentucky as white settlers tried to move in on the Shawnee and Cherokee in the 1770s. I've been reading Jo...

What's worse than a burned county? Would you believe an earthquake county? In the September 2013 National Genealogical Society Quarter...

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

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 ...

If you've been dithering about whether to join the National Genealogical Society , this might be a good time to jump in and do so. The c...

Recently I heard from genealogist/researcher Barry Fleig, who I hadn't talked to in 22 years. Back then he was an indispensable source w...

Sometimes as a genealogist, you can feel like a dog underneath a banquet table -- so many of the succulent scraps of information are out of ...

You might recognize Harrison County as the home of Indiana's first state capital, Corydon. But did you know it was also home to a group ...

I suppose all genealogists start out looking for records that will tell them the answers to their questions. And sooner or later we encount...

Michael John Neill, writing in Ancestry Weekly Journal, uses Kentucky as an example to give a concise reminder of basic research procedures...

My mom (who you see in the upper left-hand corner of this blog) was born in Champaign County, Illinois, in 1918, and grew up in Methodist pa...

Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG, at Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog posts the 1874 will of Blount Hodge, which is (literally) a story in itself and...