Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

On the morning of October 1, 1854, forty-five children sat on the front benches of a meetinghouse in Dowagiac, Michigan. Most were between t...

Sometimes as a genealogist, you can feel like a dog underneath a banquet table -- so many of the succulent scraps of information are out of ...

H-Net has a very handy review of A. Cheree Carlson's new book from University of Illinois Press, The Crimes of Womanhood: Defining Femi...

The new issue of Chicago Genealogist has several goodies: "Thomas Hatton Gravestock," by Richard Gravestock -- a warts-and-all ac...

Chicago's own Tony Burroughs has a nice post at AC360 . Much of it pertains to the stringent methodological requirements of doing Africa...

I didn't think so. But that's approximately what the state of Michigan will do unless the legislature steps in -- try to save on the...

"The past isn't dead -- it isn't even past." Faulkner could have been inscribing the moral of Patricia Nelson Limerick...