Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

High points of the day: Waking up late on a day when I didn't have any early-morning commitments. Talking with people about BCG cer...

A many-faceted day in which I attended Jay Fonkert's stellar talk on local society newsletters and journals. One radical lesson: don...

If you sit down at a table near the Federation of Genealogical Societies registration booth in the Birmingham convention center, eventually...

I've been rereading one of my favorite books of any kind, William Maxwell's Ancestors . I am endlessly impressed by the imaginative ...

Recently participants in the Transitional Genealogists Forum have discussed various situations where their work has been made unwelcome. We...

I've uploaded my latest brochure of presentations (known as "lectures" to those of us of a certain age) over at Midwest Roots ...

The second and greatly expanded edition of Online State Resources for Genealogy is now available (more than twice the repositories and more...