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I Found 22 Ancestors in the Library of Michigan
I enjoyed TK Sands' three "I Found..." posts at her blog, Before My Time. She writes how she "found" her great-great-grandmother and her grandmother's baby at the Library of Michigan (actually, she found their death certificates), and also how she fo...
More Death Certificates Added to SeekingMichigan.org
I noticed that SeekingMichigan had twittered today that they had recently added more 1897 - 1920 death certificates to their database, for a total of around 600,000. I immediately went on to the site and within an hour had found and downloaded certi...
Revolutionary War Veteran Finally to Get Military Honors -- 160 Years After His Death
From the Flint (Michigan) Journal:RICHFIELD TOWNSHIP, Michigan -- As a 70-something-year-old man, Nathaniel Blackmer Sr. still was trying to prove that he served in the American Revolutionary War -- even traveling to Ohio for testimony from a fellow ...
Sneaking in the Back Door: Getting Michigan Death Certificates
Because of the high volume of use of the Seeking Michigan website by the public searching the 1897 - 1920 Michigan Death Certificate database and images, it has been inaccessible to many.I know how to get to that data a different way!Go to http://hal...
Death Records Available on New Seeking Michigan Site
From the Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries:‘Seeking Michigan’ Web site employs today’s technology to deliver Michigan’s history to information seekersThe Department of History, Arts and Libraries today announced the launch of...
Some Michigan Death Certificates, 1898 - 1920, Available Online for Free
Seeking Michigan has been adding images of death certificates for Michigan citizens for the years 1898 - 1920 to their website over the past couple months, with this last week seeing a huge influx of data. Genea-blogger Pam Warren tells me that the ...
New Issue (Vol. 4, No. 4) of the Michigan Genealogist Available
The latest issue of the Michigan Genealogist is available. You can find the .pdf document, along with past issues here....
