Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

The Crazy Cemetery Ladies of Lenawee County have posted readings of at least some cemeteries in five townships of this SE Michigan county: ...

The most authoritative source for Chicago newspapers has to be the Illinois Newspaper Project , which lists 1394 titles, and enumerates, for...

Do you need more books than you can afford? Check out the Digital Book Index. I like to browse by subject (even though some headings are i...

Tom Jones says we should spend as much time trying to figure out what to do with our sources as we spend finding them in the first place. I ...

One of the pleasures of attending Wisconsin's well-planned Gene-A-Rama earlier this month was getting acquainted with Voyageur , "N...

No doubt about it, the National Archives are intimidating. And it's not the kind of place to wander in and ask, "Whaddaya got?...

Anyone who's working in Wisconsin and Michigan knows how often Canadians pop up and need to be traced back across the border. I'm no...