Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Those of us with ties to the 44 or so Illinois counties lying between I-70 and I-80 have received a gift, but we don't all know it yet. ...

One of my 32 great-great-great grandparents (my mother's father's father's mother's father, ~1771-1822) turns out to have be...

Nobody knows what genealogy will be like in 2117. But three weeks from today, at the BCG luncheon at FGS Pittsburgh , you can hear some th...

. . . and take a good long look at your target records and counties in the Family History Library catalog. If the records you want are o...

There are people who hate genealogy -- often because it dealt them a nasty surprise. And there are rather more people who are just puzzled b...

A classic problem: a woman born in the early 1880s appears in her parents' household in 1900 with a stupendously common name for the tim...

It's not every day, or even every week, that I get to order two promising new books about Illinois -- one from an old friend, one from ...