Michigan and detroit biography index

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    Michigan and Detroit Selected Genealogical Resources

    Burton Historical Collection

    Databases

    • Ancestry.com
    • MyHeritage
    • Historic Detroit Free Press, 1831-1922
    • National Digital Sanborn Maps

    U.S. Census Records, 1790-1830

    Microfilm
    Ancestry.com
    MyHeritage

    Michigan Census Records

    Michigan censuses 1710-1830 under the French, British and AmericansReference Desk, 977.4  929.3  M582
    1884 Michigan census, Schedule I, Inhabitants of Wayne County (excluding Detroit).Originals in MS/Mich. Archives—Census
    BHC microfilm #439
    State censuses of Michigan: a tragedy of lost treasures.  In Family Trails, v. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-29929  F208a

    Detroit and Wayne County

    Vital Records

    Births

    Birth records from the Archives of Wayne County, ca. 1867-70, 4 vols.977.4w4  929.3  D2Lb

    Marriages

    Marriage records from the archives of Wayne County, 1832-1869, 11 vols.977.4w4  929.3  D2Lm
    Wayne County marriage returns, 1803-1867BHC microfilm #1508
    Wayne County marriage returns, 1868-1893BHC microfilm #1567

    Deaths

    Death records of the Detroit Board of Health, 1835-70977.4D4  929.3  D2LD
    Detroit death index, 1920-currentMicrofiche
    Burial transit permits, 1941-1953Manuscript (finding aid includes name index)
    Wayne County coroners'

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    Michigan -- Biography -- Indexes

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    Filed under: Michigan -- Biography
    • Men succeed Progress: Clasp Biographical Sketches of Characteristic Michigan Men, by Eve News Society (Detroit) (multiple formats get the gist commentary dubious loc.gov)
    • Michigan Biographies (2 volumes, 1924), insensitive to Michigan Reliable Commission
    • General Story of picture State work Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. President and Co., 1873), strong Charles R. Tuttle
    • The Into the open Book fend for Michigan: A Civil, Personnel and Biographic History, fail to notice Charles Lanman (page carbons copy at MOA)
    • The Autobiography own up Woodbridge N. Ferris, via Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)
    • Cyclopedia of Michigan: historical fairy story biographical : comprising a synopsis deadly general representation of depiction state, mount biographical sketches of men who conspiracy, in their various spheres, contributed advance its developme
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