Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

All four of my presentations this fall are in the Eastern time zone, even though I myself am in Central. Check your calendar and join in the...

Have you squeezed out all possible information about your ancestors' Indiana marriages? Probably not if you haven't checked for so...

Yesterday I was frolicking through the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center's complete collection of the maniacally detailed WPA...

The other day I was asked, "Is it worth getting the marriage license? They say so little, doesn't the index capture all the infor...

Genealogists often need to know the law in ways that relatively few lawyers do. Often a relevant question is more specific in time and circ...

Research Buzz alerts us to a new on-line resource from the Milwaukee Public Library Digital Collections , already well worth a visit: the M...

Midwestern newspapers in the 1850s were a sorry lot, genealogically speaking: weekly, four pages, half ads (few of which changed from week t...

Last week I spent a profitable hour at the La Salle County Genealogy Guild (you'll see their sign on southbound Illinois Route 23 in do...

Sometimes you don't need abstruse methodology so much as an attitude. If you can vividly imagine yourself as a hungry bulldog and the ev...

Don't overlook college campuses in your tour d'horizon of local resources. I'm not thinking of just the archives and special col...

That's the gift to researchers from the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society . The index is unusually comprehensive, including the nam...