Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

These days I mainly work on putting together 3- and 4-generation "downstream" accounts of my wife's and my less-documented anc...

Suddenly more than one-third of 2017 is history! Two other articles of mine have seen the light of day: “Yes, Writing Is Compulsory! Here’...

* Being present Friday when my friend and colleague Karen Stanbary was presented the award for outstanding article published in the National...

 What do you throw away? What do you keep? What do you restore? What do you allow to deteriorate? These questions in historic preservation...

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...