Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

You're researching Thralls, and someone posts this image on line. What's your first thought? (a) Thank the poster for breaking...

We can't say it often enough: if we have only an index entry or an abstract of a record, we need to find the original record, because th...

Joe Beine has additional death records and indexes posted. For our five-state Midwestern focus, they are: Illinois: Boone and Cook counti...

A tip of the hat to Paula Stuart-Warren for alerting us to a new twice-yearly journal from the University of Nebraska Press . The editors...

When people ask me about blogging, one point I make is that it helps to be dependable. If you can post every day fine, but if not try to be ...

The excuses for not continuing genealogy education are steadily dwindling. Another excuse winked out last week, when three friends and col...

By definition, if you're reading this post, those listed below are probably familiar. But in case you're an outlier, the three most ...