Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

In between the sloth of summer and the hibernation of winter are the seasons where it's actually fun to get things done. This fall I hav...

Philip Freeman's August 26 article in JSTOR Daily , "Did You Hear the Joke about the Lawyer?" , made me laugh out loud, and th...

I have more Texas relatives than I thought, but few this early. This book looks like it could be both a page-turner and a fine resource for...

(I'll never forget the day I found an original mortgage document, with my four research targets' original signatures in different co...

Genealogists talk a lot about historical context, but Rachal Mills Lennon does something about it. Her 19-page article on John Temple, a Vir...

In the March National Genealogical Society Quarterly I traced a Smith family from central Iowa in 1870 back to eastern Indiana in 1850. It ...

Some Empire State reasons why I don't blog here as often as in the past . . . If you have New York interests, don't hesitate -- g...