Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Few things genealogical are more fun than finding a probate that reveals a supposed bachelor marrying, fathering five children, and dying --...

Ye fair that cast on this an eye By me a pattern take and Spend your time industriously And such a sampler make Polly Holmes her wor...

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...