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Friday, September 28, 2018

Winning Women's Suffrage in the Upper Midwest

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A new book has been reviewed on H-Net ( Humanities and social sciences online ) that may be of interest to genealogists: Woman Suffrage an...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Potentially bad news for genealogists: privacy rights for the dead?

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Law professor Michael D. Breidenbach argues for privacy for the deceased . "If society is a partnership among the living, dead and un...
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Thursday, August 16, 2018

Did your ancestor get sent off with a 35-line memorial poem?

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My great-grandfather's oldest brother, Joel Thrall (1792-1827), went from Vermont to Quebec to Ohio, where he died outside of Columbus, ...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Another look at old reference books

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Last week I got to spend some time in a college town (Charleston, Illinois), and I picked up a nice hefty reference book in a used-book stor...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Another reason why mug books are a starting point, not an end point

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Sometimes good research on a poorly-thought-out question leaves thing -- appropriately -- unclear. In the March 2018 issue of Indiana Geneal...
Friday, April 27, 2018

Mommy, what were "men"?

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One more conundrum for future genealogists. Family trees will take on different shapes as men become increasingly superfluous to successful ...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

Fannie Fern Crandall and Her Three-Timing Darling "Husband"

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My mother-in-law's grandmother's sister Fannie Fern Crandall was not someone we heard much about, and we never thought to ask. The n...