Bushwhacking Genealogy: Kalamazoo and Beyond

A few years ago I found a way to colorize old photos and posted my first attempts.   Colorizing Old Photos They were not perfect, as I will...

I've been missing in action here on the blog and likely will be indefinitely. Life sometimes has a way of intervening with one's...

I love OCR (optical character recognition) technology! Because of OCR, companies can publish a lot of records in a short time because th...

In case you haven't noticed, Ancestry.com has Kalamazoo area directories.  They've actually had them for a while, but you wouldn...

Even if you're not Irish, you may want to dance a jig anyway to celebrate the posting of death certificate images for 1921-1939 at Seeki...

Seeking Michigan is at it again. They have just posted PDF files containing scanned index cards for the Detroit News clippings file . T...

When the Burdick Hotel burned to the ground in December 1909 ( The Burdick Burns And Deja Vu ), the first priority for the hotel staff was ...