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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Take your own mind-blowing tour at NGS in May: Cahokia Mounds

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A thousand years ago in downstate Illinois, across the Mississippi from where St. Louis is now, a world-class engineer designed a 100-foo...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Crossing the Continent with Common Names and Living to Tell the Story

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As we genealogists soon learn, an amazing number of people have common names. I ran into a few of them seven years ago while working on my f...
Saturday, April 4, 2015

136 years ago: the Upper Midwest from the back of a horse

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During the 1800s, even ancestors who would end up staying home often tried going West to see how it suited them. My great-grandfather spent ...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Good news for researchers whose ancestors ever got sick or died of anything

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The indispensable newsletter ResearchBuzz alerts us to the existence of the Medical Heritage Library , a free searchable archive of more th...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Good news for Michigan researchers!

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Seeking Michigan now has all state death certificates on line for free, 1897-1939. The most recent 18  years are new.
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

two talks at the Michiana Genealogy Fair March 21

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I'll be speaking Saturday, March 21, at the 17th annual Michiana Genealogy Fair, sponsored by the South Bend Area Genealogical Society ,...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

La Porte County Indiana Early Probate Records 1833-1850

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Everybody dies. Many have probates. A few leave wills. Therefore, all serious genealogists consult probate records in their research. Now ...
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