Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

All four of my grandparents were born in the "Gilded Age," between 1874 and 1887, and genealogy sometimes makes me more at home in...

From the fictional 98-year-old narrator of a novel: "Wars  make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, e...

Civil War pension files tell tales that are not necessarily about the soldiers. Sometimes the thanks of a grateful nation came with strings...

Simon James (1771-1822) could dig a grave, weave a piece of cloth, preach a good Baptist sermon -- and, when necessary, wrestle a ghost into...

My great-great-grandfather-in-law probably didn't make many Baptist converts during his time in Green Lake County, Wisconsin (1846-1877...

These days my genealogy life is busy and not very productive of blog posts. But this morning I re-learned a lesson already known to genealog...

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