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Come in and visit our genealogy room.  Our holdings include:  
  • 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
Always being updated. Have you found a link that might be helpful to someone else? let me know by emailing    
Audra at [email protected].
 
Free Sites

Ancestry.com : Free 1940 Census Index Search Page

MyHeritage Library Edition: Free to use if you have a library card in Michigan; in the library and at home.


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. 
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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

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.

Genealogy For Kids: Building a Family Tree : Tips, sites and information for kids to build their family tree.

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 
 



Genealogy/Historical Societies 
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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 



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