Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

The other day I was asked, "Is it worth getting the marriage license? They say so little, doesn't the index capture all the infor...

The Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly (Spring, volume 43 number 1) features documented articles about two professional men. Nei...

Joe Beine's 1 September addition to his indispensable Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records includes new and added materials f...

Last week I spent a profitable hour at the La Salle County Genealogy Guild (you'll see their sign on southbound Illinois Route 23 in do...

...digitized by Illinois Harvest recently: History of Grundy County, Illinois (Chicago: O.L. Basken & Co., 1882). History of La Salle ...

Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, by John M. Gresham (Logansport, Indiana: Wilson, Humphreys & Co., 1900)...