Come in and visit our genealogy room. Our holdings include:
Audra at acarpenter@grantlibrary.net.
Free Sites
Ancestry.com : Free 1940 Census Index Search Page
HeritageQuest Online : Free to use if you have a library card in Michigan. Starting March 4, 2015 HeritageQuest is partnering with Ancestry.com.
Michiganology : Michigan Death Records, 1897-1952 (formerly Seekingmichigan.org)
GENDIS : Genealogical Death Indexing System. The current system contains over 460,000 Michigan death records from 1867-1897.
Family Search : A free website from the Mormon Church that claims to be the largest collection of free family history and genealogy records in the world.
Ancestry Trees: Non-subscribers can create a tree linked to publicly available resources like the 1940 census.
Rootsweb : An affiliate of Ancestry.com.
Find-A-Grave : Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc.
Cyndi's List : A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps
Ellis Island : Free searchable records.
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Castle Garden : Castle Garden is an educational project of the Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of over 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island was opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this period of immigration. (not loading last time I checked. may come back online.)
Vital Records US : Listing of where to find vital records in the United States
Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center: Searchable obituary index and collections from Ohio.
stevenmorse.org : This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.
Subscription/Pay Sites
Ancestry.com A commercial, fee based genealogical website.
Fold3 : The web's premier collection of original military records.
Newaygo County Genealogical Sites
Plaisier Funeral Home : Obituaries
Crandall Funeral Home : Obituaries
Kroeze-Wolffis Funeral Home : Obituaries
Fremont Library Local Records Database
Maple Grove Cemetery Records & Map Online
Muskegon County Genealogical Sites
Muskegon County Genealogical Society
Eastern Michigan Genealogical Sites
Flint Genealogical Society
Public Libraries of Saginaw Obituary Index
Macomb County Obituary Index
Genealogy/Historical Societies
Western Michigan Genealogical History Society
Virginia Genealogical Society
St Louis Missouri Genealogical Society
Tips, Hints & Tools
Birth Date Calculator
Top 10 Genealogy Mistakes to Avoid
Brick Wall Strategies for Finding Your Ancestors
10 Ways to Celebrate Family History Month
National Archives : Resources for genealogists
- Grant High School Year Books (1938, 1939, 1947-61, 1963-1975, 1977-78, 1980-84, 1986-2013, 2015-2019)
- Pictures and records from the Danish College in Ashland Center
- Historical pictures of Grant
- Ashland Grange Records
- History of Grant Hospital
- Grant Hospital Guild Papers
- Obituary card file
- Plat maps
- Vertical file of local people and places
- Local Cemetery Records
- Scrapbooks of local wedding and anniversary announcements
- Scrapbooks of local military personnel including articles and obituaries
- Scrapbook of local history articles
Audra at acarpenter@grantlibrary.net.
Free Sites
Ancestry.com : Free 1940 Census Index Search Page
HeritageQuest Online : Free to use if you have a library card in Michigan. Starting March 4, 2015 HeritageQuest is partnering with Ancestry.com.
Michiganology : Michigan Death Records, 1897-1952 (formerly Seekingmichigan.org)
GENDIS : Genealogical Death Indexing System. The current system contains over 460,000 Michigan death records from 1867-1897.
Family Search : A free website from the Mormon Church that claims to be the largest collection of free family history and genealogy records in the world.
Ancestry Trees: Non-subscribers can create a tree linked to publicly available resources like the 1940 census.
Rootsweb : An affiliate of Ancestry.com.
Find-A-Grave : Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc.
Cyndi's List : A comprehensive, categorized & cross-referenced list of links that point you to genealogical research sites online.
Historical U.S. County Boundary Maps
Ellis Island : Free searchable records.
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Castle Garden : Castle Garden is an educational project of the Battery Conservancy. This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of over 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island was opened. Over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this period of immigration. (not loading last time I checked. may come back online.)
Vital Records US : Listing of where to find vital records in the United States
Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center: Searchable obituary index and collections from Ohio.
stevenmorse.org : This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications. Some of these tools fetch data from other websites but do so in more versatile ways than the search tools provided on those websites.
Subscription/Pay Sites
Ancestry.com A commercial, fee based genealogical website.
Fold3 : The web's premier collection of original military records.
Newaygo County Genealogical Sites
Plaisier Funeral Home : Obituaries
Crandall Funeral Home : Obituaries
Kroeze-Wolffis Funeral Home : Obituaries
Fremont Library Local Records Database
Maple Grove Cemetery Records & Map Online
Muskegon County Genealogical Sites
Muskegon County Genealogical Society
Eastern Michigan Genealogical Sites
Flint Genealogical Society
Public Libraries of Saginaw Obituary Index
Macomb County Obituary Index
Genealogy/Historical Societies
Western Michigan Genealogical History Society
Virginia Genealogical Society
St Louis Missouri Genealogical Society
Tips, Hints & Tools
Birth Date Calculator
Top 10 Genealogy Mistakes to Avoid
Brick Wall Strategies for Finding Your Ancestors
10 Ways to Celebrate Family History Month
National Archives : Resources for genealogists