Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

I have thought of professional genealogists as an island surrounded by amateurs, but it had not occurred to me that the same might be said o...

  Three economists -- Dora Costa, Noelle Yetter, and Heather DeSomer -- have investigated "when and how health shocks reverberate acros...

CAUTION: I have not read this book. I found it noted in the Legal History Blog . Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America ...

. . . in the fall issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for the second and concluding installment, now visible to N...

It had to happen. My all-time favorite (living) fiction writer, Tana French, has a genealogist in the cast of characters in her new title, T...

That's the gist from computational biologists quoted in yesterday's Wired article by Megan Molteni: "GENOME HACKERS SHOW NO ONE...

The brand-new NGS Monthly for September leads with editor Aaron Goodwin on writing. He puts the arrow right in the bull's eye.  You...