Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Ideally, every genealogical article would cite every assertion of fact (that is not common knowledge) to an original source or to a proof ar...

Football fans know how teams try to avoid surprises by having defensive players play deep, so that they can see any surprise run or pass rig...

University of Illinois historian Eric Arnesen puts our nineteenth-century ancestors' lives in perspective: At the start of the ninete...

 The largest state genealogy organization in the country will sponsor its sixth annual writing contest in 2013, open for entries beginning...

Christmas seems like a good time to talk about not stealing from other blogs or on-line material in general, but Kerry Scott has already don...

In the fall of 2011 I made what seemed like an epic journey to Mt. Carmel, Wabash County, Illinois, to walk and read the Sand Hill #2 cemet...

My article on Milton Reynolds, husband of Nancy Wise and an inhabitant of North Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1850, and who knows w...