Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

The Library of Congress's admirable Chronicling America , covering various years between 1860 and 1922, has so far put up on line pages ...

One of the Midwest's premier research destinations will roll out a new on-line catalog system this Thursday! See the Allen County Public...

This could be another way of thinking about family stories, from home-schooled historian, writer, and professor Susan Wise Bauer : Epic tale...

Christopher A. Schnell writes in "Women and the Law of Property," in In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abra...

(Partly cross-posted from the La Porte County Genealogical Society blog . Sorry for any inconvenience.) Three from the Hoosier state: (1) Th...

Midwestern newspapers in the 1850s were a sorry lot, genealogically speaking: weekly, four pages, half ads (few of which changed from week t...

I know all history is past, but I just finally read a book that has sat on my shelves for decades -- so long that it became a kind of landma...