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Genuine Michigan Genealogy At The Michigan Library And Historical Center

March 17th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

Do your ancestors come from Michigan? Well, I’ve got good news for you. Probably the best place to check on Michigan genealogy is the Michigan Library and Historical Center that offers a wide range of family history research materials. The Library of Michigan is closed Sundays, but it is open other days for Michigan genealogy research. The website has information about how to conduct a genealogy research project, as well as links to other online research tools you can use from anywhere with an internet connection. The Michigan death records from the year 1897 to 1920 are available online and are a mother lode of information for starting a family tree.

There are three new Michigan Subject Guides:

l Courthouse Records

l Organizing Your Genealogy Research

l Pennsylvania Genealogy Resources

Best practices For Conducting Michigan Genealogy

At the Michigan Library and Historical Center, you can get valuable help when it comes to finding out the best means to conduct Michigan genealogy research and even a visit to The Library of Michigan’s Abrams Foundation Historical Collection should help you further, and there are also downloadable forms and also charts for the purpose of conducting research on family history. If you are stuck, you could always get help by asking the Library of Michigan and even the Archives of Michigan, while another source is the Michigan Genealogy Research Network.

Michigan 1870 Census

You can even check out the Michigan 1870 Census because the 1870 federal census for Michigan will provide you with lists of family names for every household in each county in the state and also for all townships in Michigan for the year 1870, and there is even the Michigan Cemetery Sources to check out where you can find the complete compilation of cemetery transcriptions, and which also provides the locations of over three thousand seven hundred different cemeteries in the state of Michigan.

Additional Resources

The Library of Michigan and also the Archives of Michigan have many online tools that will help you in your Michigan genealogy research and you can use the ANSWER Library Catalog, or check the Archives of Michigan circulars which will help you in identification of the records held in the Archives of Michigan on particular topics such as government documents, military records as well as diaries and even daybooks. In addition, there are also Genealogy Web sites to check out, and you can also use the Library of Michigan Subject Guides that will highlight certain areas useful for researching genealogy including regional as well as international sources and immigration as well as the Civil War.

Michigan County Clerks Directory

The Michigan County Clerks Genealogical Directory is organized alphabetically by county and holds all the public records that would be pertinent to anyone seeking to advance their knowledge of Michigan genealogy for the state of Michigan. This genealogical search engine is available on the World Wide Web (Internet) since 1996 and continues to be revised as new information becomes available. But don’t stop here. Listen closely. The Michigan newspapers contain archives that go back decades; they also contain Mackinaw history. Don’t forget that there is a Michigan Naturalization Record Index that should prove valuable for those relatives that came from foreign lands and immigrated to Michigan.