Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Curiosity killed the cat, but it only slows down the genealogist. Our first wood-burning stove (1974) was a quasi-antique with the quain...

It's always fun when a new issue of the American Historical Review comes around and I pick out books published a year or more ago that ...

How to keep track of your research findings so that even you can find them and figure them out in a month or a year -- that's the subjec...

Folks largely deplored the amount of backbiting and destructive criticism and cyber-bullying among genealogists in a brief but agonized disc...

Someone asked a good question following my citations webinar last wee k ( still listenable here if you're an Illinois State Genealogical...

Well, 2012 isn't quite done yet . I just received my physical copy of the December 2012 National Genealogical Society Quarterly in the...

Cross-posted from the FGS 2013 conference news blog : Is Wisconsin on your way to or from the 2013 FGS conference in Fort Wayne? You'...