Read More Family Photographs: Making What Is Old, New Again They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but at the Midwest Genealogy Center, we also know tha
Read More Gifts From Our Grandparents Sometime before the birth of his first great-grandchild, my grandfather began collecting Hull Pottery Co
Read More In Search of Religious Freedom After more than two months at sea, the Pilgrims landed in Cape Cod on November 11, 1620.
Read More Share Your Love of MGC—Become a Volunteer! The Midwest Genealogy Center is one of the premier genealogy libraries in t
Read More It’s All Relative It seems there is a “national day” for almost anything you can think of. Pancake Day? March 1.
Read More Happy Fête Nationale Française! Bastille Day (in French, “fête nationale française”) is July 14.
Read More Up in Flames Record loss is an unfortunate hurdle that we deal with when researching our families.
Read More In One Port, Out Another! June is Immigrant Heritage Month, so we thought it would be nice to discuss ports of departure.
Read More FACE-ing Your Ancestors: Using Facebook for Genealogy Research Sometimes our best genealogy work is done when we talk through our research struggles with other people.
Read More In Their Own Words As a kid, I spent almost every summer in Oklahoma where my mother is from.
Read More Yom Hashoah: The Day We Remember the Holocaust Many people honor those who died in the Holocaust on January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
