The books below are just a sample of the resources available in the Genealogy Room at the Library - there are hundreds of books and census indexes for most of the United States prior to 1900 and some census indexes and resources for Canada as well.
Midland County Cemetery Records: (book form) 1850-1894
Midland Obituary Index: 1872-1921
Midland County Cemetery Book
Midland County Census: (book form) 1900, 1910, 1920
Midland City Directories: 1933 and up
Midland High School Yearbooks: 1944 to present
Dow High School Yearbooks: 1965 (opening year) to present
Statewide Resources for Genealogical Research
Library of
Michigan
Abrams Foundation Historical Collection:Genealogy
and Local History
717 West Allegan Street
PO Box 30007
Lansing, Michigan 48909-7507
517-373-1580
Library Hours:
Monday through Friday - 8 am to 6 pm
Saturday - 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday - 1 pm to 5 pm
The Library of Michigan is the 4 th largest genealogy repository
in the US.
The LOM has the complete census for the United States from 1790 through
1930.
Clarke Historical Library
Central Michigan University
Mt.Pleasant, Michigan 48859
Library Hours:
Monday through Friday - 8am to 5pm; scheduled Saturdays
throughout the year.
Burton Historical
Collection of the Detroit Public Library
Michigan, Old Northwest Territory and US
holdings.
Countrywide Resources for Genealogical Research
Allen County Public Library
(Fort Wayne, Indiana)
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
Library
National Union Catalog
of Manuscript Collections
Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois)
Libweb -
Library Servers via the WWW
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Midland County Vital
Records The Midland County Clerk has birth, marriage, divorce, civil court and land records from 1880 Midland County Clerk 220 W. Ellsworth Midland, Michigan 48640 989-832-6739 |
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GENDIS
A non-indexed site containing the death files from the State of Michigan from 1867 to 1884. Parents and cause of death may also be listed. |
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Michigan
County Clerks Genealogy Directory 1994 Edition containing the address, phone, FAX number, genealogy research hours, identification requirements for use of records, cost of certified, and genealogy copies, other copy fees and list of records and inclusive dates for all the counties of Michigan. |
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State
Wide Obituary Listings Current daily listings from: Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle and the Saginaw News. |
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United States Vital Records Information Site. A private genealogy page that contains information on how and where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death, marriage and divorce records) for every territory, state and county in the U.S. |
Adoption: A
Website of Links and Tips - for those researchers that are touched by adoption.
1895
USA Atlas Searchable state and county maps.
Place
Names The USGS place name index.
The distance finder will
calculate the distance between two sites and give you driving directions. Handy when trying to figure out how close relatives may have lived to one
another.
Michigan
GenWeb Master County Index. Links to all the sites within Michigan of
the
MIGENWEB.
The
Genealogy Homepage. Sponsored by The Family Tree Maker Online.
The
American Immigrant Wall of Honor, Search the Wall. This site allows you
to check a name to see if it is on the wall at Ellis Island.
Find
The County For Any City In The United States. Enter the name of a city,
for instance, Midland, and receive back a listing of all the place names called
Midland in the US.
Bureau
of Land Management: Eastern States, General Land Office
Searchable land patents in Michigan and other states.
British
Columbia Vital Event Indexes
Ohio
Death Index. A searchable index of deaths in the State of Ohio from 1913
to 1937.
Colorado
Statewide Marriage and Divorce Index
Cyndi's
List of Genealogy Sites- Michigan. Links to numerous sites.
There are a number of ways to get involved in the USGW or MIGENWEB project and help others as well as yourself.
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Volunteers for lookups!. If you own or have access to sources for Isabella County (birth records, marriage records, tax records, cemetery records, biographical information, county or city histories, etc.), sign up to be listed on the "Lookup" page. |
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Volunteer to help the
USGENWEB Project in your own state or county! Help is needed throughout the country, whether it is for a county coordinator, lookups, the census project, the tombstone project or assisting the county coordinator in maintaining a page. Contact your State Coordinator for more details. |
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Donna Hoff-Grambau
1996 - 2002 by Jeri Shangle
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