Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

There's nothing like being at the forefront of genealogy education. James Tanner reports from his front-line duty aiding a patron at a F...

When I was a more serious chess player, I often ran into guys (almost always guys) who had learned the game well enough to routinely beat ev...

Many people are still under the impression that there are such things as "primary sources" and "secondary sources." ...

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