Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

 The time is 1823. The place is Fort Wayne. Indiana has been a state for seven years. The dismayed writer is William H. Keating, who has jus...

Genealogy is local, but we're not. Often we need access to newspapers in distant places. Some digitized titles are available by subscrip...

Three books that looked promising to me, out of the huddled masses reviewed in The American Historical Review 117, no. 2 (April 2012): 533,...

The Scout Report highlights an interesting online resource for Midwestern researchers whose people of interest may have stopped and stayed ...

Fifty years ago historian Richard Wade published The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities 1790-1830 , in which he argued that "Th...

Strictly speaking, St. Louis is out of my area, but our ancestors didn't know that. Hat tip to Diane Haddad, whose Genealogy Insider blo...

Genealogy and history work together to recover the full story of Dred Scott, the subject of the notorious 1857 US Supreme Court decision, wh...

The St. Louis Genealogical Society's April 12 conference (PDF) -- billed as "the largest such single-day event in the Midwest...