Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Did your research targets move right on to Missouri? Or Alaska? (Hey, they're both west of here!) Or did they stay put northwest of Ch...

Craig Pfannkuche, of the McHenry County and Chicago genealogical societies, and of the Chicago & Northwestern History Society , made a s...

Cynthia doesn't post real often at ChicagoGenealogy , but when she does you can be sure it's a good one. Yesterday guest blogger Bar...

Three families are featured in articles in the fall 2009 Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly : "Newstedt Family -- Syke, Hannover, Germ...

You think the census is wrong? Way wrong? Read this article to get an idea of what you may need to do to prove it. Midwesterners are the mai...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., writing in The Root after the discovery of Michele Obama's white ancestor: the social categories of “white” and...

The ProGenealogists blog did a very nice thing in getting permission from author William B. Saxbe, Jr., to reprint his article from the Mar...