Kent County Records

County Facts

County Seat: Grand Rapids
Year Organized: 1831 from Kalamazoo County
Neighboring Counties: Allegan, Barry, Ionia, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo, and Ottawa Counties

Kent County Courthouse
300 Monroe Avenue, NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-2206
Phone: (616) 632-7570
Fax: (616) 632-7565

 

On This Site

• Military Files

  • Civil War Veterans for Kent County
          1883 Civil War Pensioners for Kent Co.
          1894 Michigan State Census of Civil War Veterans

  • Spanish American War Veterans for Kent County

  • World War I

    • Doings of Battery B

• Early Births for Kent County
• County Deaths for Kent County
• School Records for Kent County -
        Yearbooks - Do you have an old yearbook to index?
        School Censuses
• Fort Custer 1924 Roster for Kent County
• Michigan Place Names for Kent County
        Towns, villages, etc.
        Townships

Other Sites With Data

• MIGenWeb Kent County - a great collection of files online for this county

• Dibean Marriages - Marriages collected from researchers for Kent County

  Western Michigan Genealogical Society - covers Kent and surrounding counties 

• D-The City of Grand Rapids and Kent County, Mich., up to date : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative
• D-History of Kent County, Michigan : together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil,
A-Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1868
• D-Grand Rapids : beautiful, industrial, commercial
• D-The Grand Rapids society blue book
• D-Inaugural proceedings at the opening of the new city hall : Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 26th, 1888.
• D-Grand Rapids, Michigan City Directories, 1889-90
• D-History of the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan
• D-Grand Rapids, Mich., as it is, 1894
• D-The Flood in Grand Rapids
• D-Michigan vital records from the Michigan Christian herald
• D-Memorials of the Grand River Valley