Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

(1) Ashtabula County, Ohio, isn't what you think. Yes, its land is divided into mostly rectangular townships, and they in turn are d...

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...

Michael Hait has just posted a free 23-page PDF, "US Census Pathfinder," that brings together and organizes links to on-line US ce...

I haven't spent enough research time in Wisconsin in the past three years, and a long day trip earlier this week was a partial make-up. ...

Sometimes the problem in genealogy education is not explaining things . . . it's knowing what to explain. Every time I attend a talk for...

Thanks to the Region Roots blog from Lake County (Indiana) Public Library for posting this handy reference guide to the official census dat...

You think the census is wrong? Way wrong? Read this article to get an idea of what you may need to do to prove it. Midwesterners are the mai...

If you can't find some new inspiration and new records to investigate from reading the fall/winter 2008 issue of The Hoosier Genealogist...

Midwesterners figure in two of the intricate methodological adventures in the current (March) issue of the National Genealogical Society Qua...

Indiana's Allen County Public Library's "Genealogy Gems" e-zine for 29 Feb announces a monthly fourth-Saturday series of ...