Census

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• 1820 Census for the Michigan Territory: Thanks to Denise Frederick, you can see just how sparsely populated by white people the MI Territory was back in 1820.  If your ancestor settled here before 1820, this is the place to look.
• 1830 Census of Michigan Territory: Thanks to Jennifer Godwin, we have this very early census for the Michigan Territory (pre-statehood).
• 1836 Census of Ottawa and Chippewa Mixed Breed Census
• LDS Indexed records online - create a free account and go - contains some Federal Censuses with images for Michigan. As of March 2008 - The 1850 and 1900 Federal Censuses are online and searchable. This site is growing in data continuously.
• Michigan 1870 Census: www.michigan.gov/1870census
  The 1870 federal census for Michigan provides a list of the family names in each household in every county and township in Michigan in 1870. View and download images of the census pages.
• 1880 Census Index - Familysearch.org has indexed the complete Federal Census for 1880.
• LDS Indexed records online - create a free account and go - contains some Federal Censuses with images for Michigan. As of March 2008 - The 1850 and 1910 Federal Censuses are online and searchable. This site is growing in data continuously.
• Censuses Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and Durant Rolls for the years 1870, 1908 and1910
• Census Projects:
  • USGenWeb Census Projects - search engine to search both project sites

NOTE: Military Censuses online for Michigan are listed below.

Michigan Residents: MeL has Heritage Quest.

Vitals

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• County Clerks of Michigan - the contact information for vital records by county
• Births:
  • LDS Indexed records online - Michigan State Vital Returns
• Deaths:
  • Gendis - Michigan deaths turned in to the State of Michigan 1867-1897
  • Obituaries -
  • Michigan Cemetery Sources - Michigan Cemetery Sources represents a compilation of published cemetery transcriptions located at the Library of Michigan. It also identifies the location of more than 3,700 cemeteries in Michigan.
  • Michigan Tombstone Project
  • LDS Indexed records online - Michigan State Vital Returns
• Marriages:
  • Dibean Marriage Index - listing for all Michigan counties with link to each
  • LDS Indexed records online - Michigan State Vital Returns

Land and Maps

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• 1902 Map of Michigan - submitted by Deb Haines.
• Land Patents - Bureau of Land Management site has the actual image available to download of original Michigan State Land Patents 1820-1908 listings which are free of charge to download.
• General Land Office Records are in the Michigan Archives
• 1873 Atlas of Michigan
• 1895 Atlas - Michigan page
• US Digital Map Library: Michigan: a project of USGenWeb

Directories

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Naturalizations - Immigration

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• Michigan Naturalization Record Indexes - Indexes to the naturalization records for 29 Michigan counties are online in PDF format. Researchers may request copies of naturalization records from the Archives of Michigan.
• Ellis Island - search your ancestor's name and get images of their passenger list if they came in through this port.
• Hamburg Passenger Lists
• Immigration Ship Transcribers Guild

Military

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• Officers at Michilimackinac and Fort Mackinac serving from 1742 to 1782 French British and United States listings
• 1796 - 1802 Muster Rolls Fort Mackinac
• War of 1812 - Michigan records are very few that name soldiers for this war.
  • Michigan In The War pub. 1882
• Indian Wars -
• 1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services
• Civil War
  • Michigan in the Civil War - Over 80,000 names with the Michigan Units they served in are on Don Harvey's site along with history for each regiment.
  • 1883 Pensioners List
  • 1894 Michigan State Census of Veterans
  • Women's Relief Corps of Michigan - An auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic
  • SUVCW Michigan Civil War Burial Files -Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War - Michigan Department Graves Registration index.
  • Civil War Archive - Features short histories of each Michigan Unit.
  • Civil War Principals and Substitutes Index
• Spanish American War 1898
  • Michigan Volunteers in the Spanish American War 1898
• WWI
  • 328th Field Artillery American Expeditionary Force
  • Metals of Honor - complete listing of names
• WWII
• Korean Conflict
• Vietnam
  • Vietnam Veterans War Memorial - list of all names for Michigan
• Gulf War
  

School Records

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• Michigan Yearbook Collection - covers many counties and towns in Michigan

Miscellaneous

• Michigan County Histories - University of Michigan has a searchable collection of county histories online for you to use.
• Google Book Search - Many large repositories are scanning books to be put online in this collection. You can download full books if they are in the public domain.
• Newspapers by County - lists of what is available on film in the state of Michigan
• Poorhouses - Michigan page
• Michigan Place Names - past and present
• Skeletons in Michigan's Closets - some early prison records
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest - portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents. If you love history be prepared to stay at this site a long, long time.