Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Those hoping to qualify for Certified Genealogist status from the Board for the Certification of Genealogists can submit a proof argument th...

Researchers can find information on more than 27,000 medical people with some Indiana connection at the Indiana University School of Medicin...

. . . from Manhattan Past to us, "links to Google digitized editions of the Laws of New York from 1638 through 1922." The need ...

Visiting a used-book store in Freeport, Maine, I purchased an intriguing mid-20th-century source for a dollar -- a detailed mile-by-mile sur...

Anyone who studies the past soon comes up against the question of what the money amounts mentioned really meant. There are a number of sites...

Courthouse disasters are the stuff of legend. My grandmother believed the records of all four of her grandparents had been destroyed; in f...

FamilySearch announced on the 16th increases in two online collections of great interest to those with Midwestern ancestors. But the officia...