Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Last year, with the help of kind editors and colleagues, I published a dozen genealogy articles (four in peer-reviewed journals) and six boo...

The eight most popular posts to date on this blog are not necessarily my personal favorites, but that's OK. I compiled this list, in the...

Continuing our holiday observance of free, here are five indexes and four finding aids available in full for your consultation at Midwestro...

It's a famous midsummer holiday, and what better to celebrate than free? Midwestroots.net now offers free lookups in 16 resources (actua...

The old web site introduction seemed a little long-winded, so I'm trying the following on for size: Welcome to Midwest Roots! I have ...

FamilySearch's uploading of more than 14 million New York probate images from 1629 to1971 is an immeasurable boon to genealogists with r...

Wording tweaked, thoughts preserved, names omitted to protect the guilty... More people have posted this than anything else. Several p...

I've uploaded my latest brochure of presentations (known as "lectures" to those of us of a certain age) over at Midwest Roots ...

We think of laws as general and impersonal, but legislatures also pass "private" or "local" laws directed to individuals...

Last week I picked up an interesting resource for 20th-century research at Samford University library's perpetual used-book sale: the 19...

I've added nine more free lookups at Midwest Roots for a total of sixteen. LA PORTE COUNTY * La Porte, Indiana, city directories for...

This past week I've added a couple of features to my Midwest Roots web site -- sixteen available presentations (formerly known as lectu...

My current brochure describing available genealogy lectures is posted at Midwest Roots . We've got orphans, the great research state of ...

There's still something cruelly tempting about an inadequately labeled box of microfilm! For those who don't recall my previous po...

Family History Library microfilms are not for sale, but local Family History Centers often have individual microfilms on “indefinite loan....

The Indiana State Library has the best collection of Indiana newspapers in the world – check out their guide . What may well be the second...

There's something cruelly tempting about an inadequately labeled box of microfilm. I recently discovered that the admirable "City D...

My business web site is now up at Midwest Roots . If you think you might want more help than a blog can provide, check it out. Thanks!