Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Those fortunate (or wise) enough to be members of the Association of Professional Genealogists and now read the December issue of the APG ...

Here's a book and a blog that might be of use to genealogists focused on the southern US and/or African-American ancestors. So far...

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

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

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

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