Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

HEALTH WARNING: If you are allergic to intelligent discussion of specifics of source citation, please discontinue reading now. Follow any li...

Genealogy has two kinds of rules. The genealogical proof standard is the substantive kind. Leaving out an element – by not writing the proo...

Have you heard all the talk? Some people are afraid to write anything because they might make a mistake. So -- instead of helping them learn...

Curiosity killed the cat, but it only slows down the genealogist. Our first wood-burning stove (1974) was a quasi-antique with the quain...

How to keep track of your research findings so that even you can find them and figure them out in a month or a year -- that's the subjec...

Someone asked a good question following my citations webinar last wee k ( still listenable here if you're an Illinois State Genealogical...

Think of learning to cite sources properly as learning a new language. Even a few words and a notion of syntax will be much better than noth...

Sometimes as genealogists we have trouble distinguishing between our grubbies and our Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes. Source citations tell ...

Many people think chess is boring, or too hard. Many chessplayers think endgames -- where most of the pieces have been traded off and much o...

If you don't keep track of where you found your genealogy evidence, you lose. In the editors' introduction to the March 2011 issue o...

If I can believe recent blog posts, there are four kinds of people involved in genealogy (organized from the largest to the smallest in numb...

Rereading the first two chapters of Evidence Explained, I was struck by how many of us are so intimidated by the general principles and inte...

Mary Dudziak on the Legal History Blog just put in a plea for better citations to records in archives: One citation had the author and reci...