Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

If you're hungry for Midwestern genealogy, the current issue of the National Genealogical Society's NGS Magazine has four treats fo...

The Ohio Genealogy News -- the genealogy newsmagazine that outdoes some other states' quarterlies -- focuses on Civil War genealogy res...

It's time for a second peek into the daily life of 90-some years ago in the rural northwestern corner of Illinois, in the second volume ...

Check out the blog-linked tweets quoted from original historical documents of the Civil War , as described in Salon . Hat tip to ResearchBu...

I can't think of many nonfiction books that were so gruesome and depressing that I deliberately quit reading them, but I almost did that...

You'll never get to eyeball these records unless you can convince the gatekeepers at Hahvahd (Business School, Baker Library) that you...

One of our family's iconic photographs shows my three sisters sitting on the steps of the old Peoria (Illinois) Public Library building...