Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

The bulk of the latest Chicago quarterly is occupied by another installment of Virginia Dick's translations of obituaries and news items...

What does it mean to complete a "reasonably exhaustive search," as required by one of the five prongs of the Genealogical Proof St...

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

I hope someone more cosmopolitan can correct me, but isn't Wisconsin the first state genealogy society to put its flagship publication o...

Two places to stop by if your family has a black sheep: At the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus you can peruse two cubic feet of "C...

Things I wish I had known a week ago: * Indiana Genealogical Society has the useful collection of local addresses, URLs, and phone numbers ...

The South Bend Area Genealogical Society's quarterly leads off with accounts of the first three programs of the year: veterinarian and s...