Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Suddenly more than one-third of 2017 is history! Two other articles of mine have seen the light of day: “Yes, Writing Is Compulsory! Here’...

Often we have to eke out one precious fact at a time by analyzing and correlating terse and scattered records. But in the case of the agr...

On the Porter County, Indiana, Genweb: 917 records from the Indiana Adjutant General's List of Porter County Civil War Soldiers 1...

World Vital Records is offering free access to a number of 20th-century city and business directories -- too many to list here, and (I am t...

The Internet Scout Project brings the welcome news that more than half a century of Illinois' quarterly historical journal (1950-2006) ...

From the September issue of the St. Clair County (Illinois) Genealogical Society Newsletter , two new books by Stephen W. Reiss. I have not ...

Thanks to the St. Clair County (IL) Genealogical Society Quarterly for this alert: Approximately 30 volunes of Transactions of the Illinois ...

As is often the case in local publications, most of the space in the first 2009 issue of the St. Clair County Genealogical Society Quarterl...

Like most ambitious state and regional publications, the St. Clair County Genealogical Society Quarterly welcomes actual articles, but stil...

Don't get me started about the wonders of city directories. Illinois Harvest has somewhat revamped its interface -- it has colors but t...

The third 2008 issue of the St. Clair County Genealogy Society Quarterly cements its standing as one of the meatiest local genealogy publi...

SCCGS Q's second issue of 2008: "Extracts from Death Register book II," 1883-1884, by Melinda Cahill and Diane Walsh "Mar...

Southwestern Illinois' hub, St. Clair County, has a number of relevant books available on line through Illinois Harvest : Prairie Farmer...

Tired of your own genealogy? Puzzle along with Craig Manson at Geneablogie, as he digs through records in Latin, French, and English along ...

The first 2008 issue of the St. Clair County (Illinois) Genealogical Society Quarterly has enough material to make some state publications...

One of the most active local societies in Illinois, with a sizeable web presence, is in the southwest, right across the river from St. Louis...