What's New - 2005
December 2005
12/23/2005: Chuck Fuller is working on listing
all the names of those buried in Potter's Field in Lake Forest
Cemetery,.
Grand Haven. He is looking for information from anyone who
has an ancestor buried there. If you do, please contact
him at:
chuckim@hotmail.com This sounds like a great
project. Thank you for working on this, Chuck, there
will be people who will appreciate this.
12/10/2005: For information regarding the
Michigan Soldiers Home (now known as the Veterans Facility)
http://www.michigan.gov/dmva
12/08/2005:
Early History of
Allendale Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson. All
of the township have been
transcribed by Leslie, Thank You!
12/08/2005:
Early History of
Crockery Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson
12/03/2005: The University of Cambridge has a
free online course for learning how to read and transcribe
1500-1700
English handwriting.
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/
12/03/2005: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Jackson County
Genealogical Society and the Jackson County Historical
Society are offering Pioneer Certificates to honor the
early settlers of the county, which will be 175 years old in
2007.Contact them for further information.
12/03/2005: Early History of Polkton Township
transcribed by Leslie Coulson
November 2005
11/26/2005:
Spring Lake Christian Reformed Church, 1882-1982, Pastors,
Officers and Highlights
11/26/2005:
Grand
Haven Reformed Church, 1850-1950, Pastors, Officers and
Statistics
11/26/2005:
Early History of
Holland and Holland Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson
11/26/2005:
Early History of
Robinson Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson
11/26/2005:
Early History of Park
Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson
11/22/2005:
Early History of Olive
Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson
11/22/2005:
Early History of
Georgetown Twp. and Hudsonville transcribed by Leslie
Coulson
11/22/2005:
Early History of Blendon
Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson
11/22/2005:
Thomas Harback Family
for Six Generations contributed by Sally Bowman
11/17/2005: Short Histories of
Ferrysburg,
Zeeland Town and
Township,
Grand
Haven Township, Wright Township,
Jamestown
Township and
Chester Township transcribed by Leslie Coulson.
11/15/2005: Short Histories of
Coopersville,
Port Sheldon Township
and Tallmadge
Township transcribed by
Leslie Coulson.
11/15/2005:
Hudsonville Christian Reformed Member Directories for 1946,
1950, 1956, 1959
11/12/2005: LDS is in the process of digitizing
their book holdings, mostly family histories to date
and they are putting them online at BYU (Brigham Young
University), fully searchable by any word.
http://www.lib.byu.edu/
then click home page, follow the links - Find Other Materials/On
Line Collections at BYU/
Text Collections tab/ Family History Archive. If you have
a common surname, use the "Search All" box with
"search full text" checked.
11/12/2005: A new transcription of the 1850
Ottawa County Census
11/12/2005:
2004 Transcript of
East Holland Cemetery Records by Shirley Krombeen
October 2005
September 2005
09/19/2005: Link to place genealogy books, etc.
to sell or a place to buy new, used, out-of-print, hard-to-find
genealogy materials. This is a free web site. No
service fee. Only the price that the seller would like to
receive.
www.genealogyclassifieds.com This could be
a great site if enough people get involved in using it.
2008 - this site no longer working.
09/19/2005: Link to locate and obtain birth,
marriage and death certificates in the UK - England, Wales
Scotland and Northern Ireland - this is not a free site -
http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk
09/19/2005: Jamestown
Christian Reformed Church Members to 1927
09/17/2005:
Ferry
Elementary School - Some Class Photos with names of students
09/17/2005:
Lamont
High School History and Picture
09/09/2005:
West Drenthe - 2005
update transcribed by ES.
09/09/2005:
Rusk Cemetery - 2005 update transcribed by ES.
August 2005
08/27/2005: Sexton's Records
for Burials in Marne Cemetery, 1896-1953 transcribed by
Loekie Boersma from
notebooks found in the Wright Township Clerk's office.
08/26/2005: Link to
1860 Ottawa County Federal Census Images Online
08/21/2005: Tallmadge Township, School District
No. 1, Students, 1880
08/21/2005: Tallmadge Township, School District
No. 1, Students, 1871
08/19/2005:
Abbreviations for
Crockery Township Cemetery Records.
08/19/2005:
Bentheim Cemetery Records through 1961, Allegan County, MI -
a border cemetery.
08/17/2005: A very big "Thank You" to Yntze van
der Honing from the Netherlands for sending me updates on links
to the Netherlands. Check out the
Index to the Dutch Records
and, hopefully, there will be a link there to help you with
your ancestors. I would just state that I always
appreciate any help with broken links - whether it is just to
inform me that
they are broken or to give me an updated link to the site.
08/17/2005:
Nunica Cemetery
Records, 1986 and the south part through 2004
08/17/2005:
Soldiers and
Their Wives buried in Nunica Cemetery
08/09/2005: New link to
Castle Garden Depot of Immigration since 1855 -
www.CastleGarden.org
08/09/2005:
Layout of
Graafschap Cemetery in Sections 31 and 36 transcribed by ES.
08/09/2005:
Graafschap
Cemetery in Section 36 - West side of 60th Avenue, north of
32nd Avenue, 2004 by ES.
08/09/2005:
Graafschap
Cemetery in Section 31 - Northeast corner of 32nd Street &
60th Avenue, 2004 by ES.
08/04/2005:
Ottawa Center
Cemetery to Fall of 2004
08/04/2005:
Pastors of First Jenison Christian Reformed Church
08/04/2005: Index
to Members of Overisel Christian Reformed Church, 1883-1988
08/04/2005:
Early History of Prospect
Park Christian Reformed Church, Holland, MI
08/04/2005:
Early History of Providence Christian Reformed Church,
Holland, MI
July 2005
07/27/2005: Subscribers
to the 1876 Ottawa County Atlas
07/23/2005: Decatur
Reformed Church Members
07/23/2005:
Burnips
Methodist Church Pastors
07/23/2005:
Overisel Reformed Church Charter Members and Their
Descendants
07/16/2005: Drenthe
Scottish Presbyterian Church - Women and Their Spouses,
1852-1886
07/16/2005: East Saugatuck Christian Reformed
Church - History
- Members, 1869-1969
07/16/2005:
Allendale Christian Reformed Church, Members, 1940's - 1980's
07/13/2005:
Crockery Township School Records,
1884-1887
Attendance, Students,
Parents/Guardians
07/03/2005: Tallmadge Township -
Oaths of Office
from 1840 Record Book transcribed by ES
07/03/2005: Lakewood Cemetery, 2004 -
A - N,
O - Z
transcribed by ES.
June 2005
06/28/2005:
New Gronigen
Cemetery, 2004, transcribed by ES.
06/27/2005:
Noordelos Cemetery
Records, 2004, transcribed by ES.
06/27/2005:
East Drenthe
Cemetery Records, 2004, transcribed by ES.
06/27/2005:
Old Drenthe
Cemetery Records transcribed by ES.
06/25/2005: Obituaries:
Joseph Dearborn, Emily Dearborn, Avery Densmore, Mercy Drew,
Myron Drew, Lloyd Drew,
Robert Dykstra, Orrin Edson, Mary Edson, Guy Edson,
Pearl Edson, Musa Edson, Glenn Edson, Lee Edson, Thomas Edson,
Grant Edson and Carolyn Edson.
06/25/2005: Some updates on
Maplewood
Cemetery
06/25/2005: Early Records of
Restlawn Memorial
Gardens through 1938 transcribed by ES.
06/22/2005: Obituaries of
Nicholas Boone Family
06/22/2005:
North Holland Cemetery
updated with the old records.
06/02/2005: Addition to
Rosedale
Memorial Park - Surname of Norton
May 2005
05/28/2005: New Genealogy Link (somewhat limited
but growing)
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Ottawa
05/28/2005: New links under
Deaths,
Marriages,
Land,
Michigan Archives Online and
Michigan County Clerk's
05/19/2005:
Early Settlers Information of Ottawa County, anyone wishing to give information
on early settlers that is not already in this file, please send
it to the county coordinator.
Open this file for directions.
05/06/2005:
Deaths due to influenza
in the Zeeland Record from 18 Oct 1918 - 13 May 1919
05/06/2005: WWI
Deaths of Servicemen from Ottawa County
05/06/2005: North
Holland Cemetery Records, Holland Tp. transcribed by ES.
April 2005
04/28/2005: Some links fixed.
04/28/2005: Photo of
1938 Hudsonville
Basketball Team - Regional Champions
04/28/2005: Early Ottawa County Family
Information, transcribed by ES.
04/22/2005: Early Ottawa County Family
Information, transcribed by ES.
04/22/2005: Postcards of Spring Lake -
Ashley Heights;
Boat Racing on
Spring Lake from Helen Seeley
04/22/2005: Michigan Postcards of the (1)
Harbor at South Haven,
1930 from Helen Seeley;
(2) Fish
Hatchery at Paris;
(3) Central State Normal
School, Mt. Pleasant
04/22/2005: Obituaries for
Lucille Gust,
William
Gust, Luella Emily Harvey and
Lucy P. Ireland submitted by
Helen Seeley
04/22/2005: Two New Categories - Obituaries and
Non-Ottawa County
04/15/2005: Online address for 1918 Ottawa
County Directory contributed by Don Bryant
http://www.distantcousin.com/Directories/MI/OttawaCounty/1918/
04/15/2005: Early
Settler Information
of Ottawa County, transcribed by ES.
04/08/2005:
Blendon Tp. Death Records, 1909-1991
04/06/2005: Beginning a new project -
Early Family Information of Ottawa County.
This is mainly from the southeastern
part of Ottawa County.This will be a continuing series
and if
anyone has family information on the early settlers in any area
of Ottawa County that
they would
like included in
this, please let me
know.
March 2005
03/30/2005:
Blendon Tp.
Cemetery Records to Early 2005 with much more information on
parents, spouses.
03/12/2005:
Wright Township
Tax Assessments, 1848-1868
03/12/2005:
WWI, Company L,
126th Infantry - History and Roster for 1917 and 1918.
03/12/2005:
1893 Ottawa County Biographies
-
Mrs. Hannah C. Barnard, Aloys Bilz, Sherman H. Boyce, James D.
Edward, Henry Jekel, Rokus Kanters, Hubert
Pelgrim, Moses Robinson, Gerrit Rooks,
Oscar Sanders, George D. Sanford, Jared D. Wetmore, M. D., M. L.
Weston, M. D., Cornelius Westrate -
This completes the Ottawa County Biographies from the Muskegon
and Ottawa Counties Biographies, 1893.
February 2005
02/21/2005: Free genealogy site -
http://www.genealogybuff.com
02/16/2005: Address and link to the
Tri-Cities Historical Museum
02/16/2005: Correction for Ann (Himelberger) Lillie,
buried in Advent Cemetery, Wright Tp.
02/16/2005: New link to genealogy for Zeeland
Province, Netherlands:
http://geneaknowhow.net/digi/zeel-ei.html
January 2005
01/31/2005:
Photo of 8th
Grade Class of Ferrysburg School, 1950 contributed by Helen
Selee.
01/29/2005:
Ottawa County Poor Farm
Residents, 1919-1932 (Later known as Community Haven)
01/26/2005:
Early History of
Blendon Township transcribed by ES.
01/26/2005:
Early History of the
Ottawa County Poor Farm
01/26/2005:
Ottawa County Poor Farm
Residents, 1866 - 1871
01/26/2005:
Ottawa County Poor Farm
Residents, 1872 - 1883
01/20/2005: Link
to U. S. Funeral Homes listed by state
01/16/2005:
Additional information on the VanderWoude/Machiela families
buried in
Borculo Cemetery.
01/03/2005:
St. Joseph's
Cemetery, Wright Township, 1940-1991, transcribed by Loekie
Boersma 10 July 1992.
Transcribed by ES.
01/03/2005:
1850 Ottawa County Census - online
Created: 26 January 2005
URL: http://ottawa.migenweb.net/what'snew/2005.html