Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

The Chicago Collections Consortium is not news and I'm not up to date on its current status, but its every-word-searchable listing of...

The Newberry Library and Internet Archive now have almost all the Chicago City Council minutes from 1865 to 1963 on line and searchable. I...

Besides containing one of the premier genealogy libraries -- the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center -- and hosting next year'...

Most genealogy societies have been around long enough that they have a significant amount of history, including a written trail of published...

Imagine an industry so huge that it had an office in every town of any size; that was a hub of techological innovation; that was indispensab...

Grace Dumelle -- author, house historian, and Newberry librarian -- has just the sort of very thorough post on the Newberry blog that genea...

Indiana-born writer George Ade (1866-1944) wrote "stories of the streets and the town" in the Chicago Record between 1893 and 190...

The April issue of the Chicago Genealogical Society 's newsletter includes two items of good news, and Facebook adds a third: * From CGS...

The Newberry Library has Everywhere West: Preserving and Enhancing Access to the Records of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co...

Two recent announcements of upgrades to already valuable resources. I'll let the announcers speak for themselves: The Newberry Library...

Today was going to be the day for a long leisurely post about a quirky compendium on the history of religion in Indiana, but there's no ...

Is Grace DuMelle, genealogist and longtime "genealogy and local history assistant" at the Newberry Library, warming up for another...

The Newberry Library has been able to digitize and place online a selection of the 3,000 photographs taken in the late 1940s for the 1955 c...

The April newsletter of the Chicago Genealogical Society brings word of a long-awaited publication: Chicago Cemetery Records 1847-1863 , 29...

If you're just in from Mars and haven't yet started following the intermittent "Genealogy News" blog of Chicago's Newb...

Cynthia has an intriguing post over at Chicago Genealogy -- "The Chicago Fire: Was Your Ancestor Insured? " about the possibilitie...

This may be superfluous if y'all already read Dick Eastman's newsy blog/newsletter. Jack Simpson, the curator of local family histor...

If it was professionally done, you may be able to date it using the Chicago History Museum 's nifty tool, Chicago Photographers, 1847 th...

If I put the Newberry Library news in separate posts, there won't be room for anybody else. So here are three recent developments in one...

It's pretty much 100% likely that your ancestors worked for someone else, or started a business that employed others. The records genera...