Read More Dare I Say, “Happy Spring?” March 19 was the first day of spring, but since then the weather has had its ups and downs like any ol’ Midwestern season.
Read More Splitting Heirs: Researching Our Divorced Ancestors When I found Polly Lutgert in the summer of 1800 in Augusta, Georgia, her marriage had fallen apart.
Read More To See an Elephant There is a parable that pops up in various traditions called “The Blind Men and an Elephant.”
Read More I Call Your Name, but What Does It Mean? Tracing the origin of your surname can teach you a lot about your ancestors, as names can tell a story about your family.
Read More The Keeper of the Details My oldest cousin ferreted out that our grandmother’s sister, Great-Aunt Eva, knew a wealth of family history.
Read More Many More European Holiday Traditions As you prepare for your holidays, I thought we would take another look at more European holiday traditions.
Read More Great skier? Maybe the Circuit Rider! When I was an avid cross-country skier, one ‘snowshoe itinerant’ was brought to my attention.
Read More MGC Lock-In 2023: Beyond the Seas! The Midwest Genealogy Center invites you to its annual lock-in on November 10 from 6:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Read More In Genealogy, Even the Dates are Relative Long before there was a Midwest Genealogy Center, I was an American History teacher.
Read More Pesquisando Antepassados (Researching Ancestors) or What Language is This? Many of us, in doing genealogy research, come across a European ancestor, or two, or three.