Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

One of my immigrant ancestors had six children between 1795 and 1815, one of whom apparently died young. Two of the six were daughters who m...

After a fifteen-month nap (er, hiatus) I will try restarting this blog on a weekly basis. * The big genealogy news is Karen Jones's pl...

This summer -- July 22-27 at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh -- Kimberly Powell and I will again be coordinating a week-l...

The science-fiction writer who coined the term "cyberspace" reflects on how difficult it is to recapture a world without telev...

From 3 Quarks Daily , one of the great aggregator sites, I learned that numerous stories have been traced back thousands of years -- "n...

Last year, with the help of kind editors and colleagues, I published a dozen genealogy articles (four in peer-reviewed journals) and six boo...

The best two books for serious genealogists are Thomas W. Jones's Mastering Genealogical Proof   and Robert Charles Anderson's Eleme...