Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Genealogy and family history in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and neighbor and feeder states

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Monday, October 30, 2017

Census entries that have "DOOM" written all over them, and some good reading

Joseph M. Burdock [Burdick], 1870 U.S. census, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., Ward 14, p. 582, dwelling 1455, family 1657: FIRE INS. AGENT. Robe...

Friday, October 20, 2017

The sheriff's granddaughters

My step-grandmother's grandfather Samuel James Lowe (1798-1851), an immigrant from England, was sheriff of Cook County in the 1840s. He...

Friday, September 8, 2017

Just when you think you've got the whole family . . .

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

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Five generations of New York women

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...

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