Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Hat tip to the COOK-CO-IL Rootsweb mailing list for alerting me to another category of potential historical information: Ghost Signs . This ...

Those who do 20th-century Midwestern genealogy may already know about this series of county histories whose most desirable feature at this ...

If I can believe recent blog posts, there are four kinds of people involved in genealogy (organized from the largest to the smallest in numb...

Today's topic is "records about records" -- how cool is that? Midwestern researchers should be familiar with the WPA county re...

I don't think I've said enough about Milwaukee-based blogger Kerry Scott's "Clue Wagon." If I may paraphrase my mom o...

My friend Michael Hait has just published the first edition of his PDF book, Online State Resources for Genealogy , an ambitious undertakin...

The vast majority of records of interest to genealogists are not on line, and may never be. Few genealogical problems can be solved using on...