| Blog Name: | Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog |
| Url: | http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | genealogy, family history, midwest |
| Description: | Genealogy and family history in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and neighbor and feeder states |
| Popularity: | 16 Followers |
| Few things are more annoying to the time-challenged genealogist than a batch of big heavy index books in sequence with no dates on them. If that happens to be your predicament in the Lake County, I...more |
| If you had any ancestors who were able to build themselves a home in the late 1800s, they may have used a mail-order pattern like those collected in a book just digitized by the University of Illin...more |
| Minnesota-based genealogist, lecturer, and blogger Paula Stuart Warren, CG, takes aim at the insane results of current privacy laws over at Paula's Genealogical Eclectica. |
| Good genealogy requires that we do "reasonably exhaustive" or "reasonably extensive" research, which according to Board for the Certification of Genealogists Standard 19 includes "appropriately bro...more |
| Today I will give belated thanks for Cynthia's authoritative explanation of the so-called Chicago Burial Index over at ChicagoGenealogy. If you already understood all this, you are my idea of a sea...more |