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Michigan Genealogy Databases

Click Here to List ALL Michigan Databases Michigan Birth Records. Michigan Death Records. Michigan Marriage Records. Michigan Vital Records. Michigan Geneology Databases. Michigan Genealogy Records. Michigan Geneology Records. Michigan Records. Michigan Census Records.

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•	Michigan Marriages, 1851-75 Index to marriage records for various counties in Michigan.
•	Erastus Haven, Autobiography Autobiography of a Michigan minister and university administrator in nineteenth century Michigan
•	Michigan Land Records Michigan Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patent and Cadastral Survey Plat Index
•	Michigan Marriages to 1850 Database of Michigan marriages to 1850
•	Michigan Deaths, 1971-96 Michigan deaths from 1971 to 1996
•	Michigan Census, 1827-70 U.S. Federal Census indexes (and other related census indexes) for Michigan from 1827 to 1870
•	Monroe County, Michigan Directories, 1874-75, 1892, 1897
•	Northern Michigan, Newspaper Surname Index Surname index to 14 newspapers published in northern Michigan between 1870 and 1930
•	William Nowlin, Bark Covered House Narrative describing the life of a pioneer family in Michigan
•	Michigan Travel Guide, 1899 Travel guide published in 1899 extolling the benefits of visiting Michigan
•	Alexander Campbell, Address on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan Address on the climate, soil, resources, development, commerce and future of the upper peninsula of Michigan
•	Lucinda Stone, Reminiscences Life story and reminiscences of Lucinda Stone, prominent member of the educational community in early Michigan
•	Michigan Gallery of Pen Sketches Collection of newspaper cartoons and caricatures from the nineteenth century Midwest
•	Michigan Facts and Figures Promotional guidebook containing important numbers and facts concerning Michigan in the 1880s
•	Augustus C. Schooley, Among the Wolverines Pamphlet collection of letters writen by the Augustus Schooley during his travels throughout Michigan
•	Sylvester Cochrane, Vermontville Colony Narrative history of the Vermontville Colony in Michigan
•	National Grange in Michigan Pamphlet published in connection with a meeting of the National Grange in Michigan in 1902
•	Lewis Reimann, Between the Iron and the Pine Narrative of the life of a shopkeeper in Michigan
•	Bertha Van Hoosen, Michigan Petticoat Surgeon Narrative of the life of a pioneer physician in the Midwest
•	David Ward, Autobiography, 1912 Written by a self-made millionaire businessman of Michigan
•	Daniel Mevis, Growth of Lansing, Michigan Recollections of the development of Lansing, Michigan in the nineteenth century
•	Michigan Business Directory, 1863 Directory of Michigan businesses and associations in 1863
•	Georgia Hufford, Northern Michigan Farm Description of the life of a young girl who moved to Michigan in the late nineteenth century
•	Caroline Kirkland, New Home in Michigan Anecdotal history of a young woman's life in a Michigan settlement
•	John Lyle King, Trouting on the Brule River, 1879 Narrative of a fishing expedition in Michigan in the 1870s
•	Michigan Missionary Labors Narrative of a missionary who labored in Michigan among both Native Americans and white settlers
•	Michigan Native Americans History, 1887 Brief history of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
•	Berrien County, Michigan Directory, 1892 Farmer and resident directory of Berrien County, Michigan origianally published in 1892
•	Michigan Gazetteer, 1839 Listing of important towns and villages in Michigan in 1839 along with a brief history of the state
•	Michigan Medical History, Vol. 1 Brief anecdotal medical history of Michigan in the nineteenth century.

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Michigan Genealogy Help

Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century.

There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Michigan vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Michigan vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Michigan ancestors using Michigan census records.

Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them.

Michigan Vital Records Information
(How to contact the Vital Records Department of Michigan)

Event: Birth or death

Cost of copy: $13.00

Address:
Vital Records
3423 North Martin Luther King Boulevard
P.O. Box 30195
Lansing, MI 48909

Remarks: State office has records of births and deaths that occurred and were filed with the state since 1867. Some of the records (especially pre-1906 births and pre-1897 deaths) were not filed with the state.

Check or money order should be made payable to State of Michigan. Personal checks are accepted. Additional copies of the same record, ordered at the same time are $4.00 each. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (517) 335-8656. This will be a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at State of Michigan.

Copies of records may also be obtained from the County Clerk in county where even occurred. Fees vary from county to county. Records of Detroit births occurring since 1893 and deaths since 1897 may be obtained from the city of Detroit Health Department.

Event: Marriage (State)

Cost of copy: $13.00

Address:
Vital Records
3423 North Martin Luther King Boulevard
P.O. Box 30195
Lansing, MI 48909

Remarks: Records since 1867. Some marriages (especially pre-1926) were not filed with the state.

Event: Marriage (county)

Cost of copy: Varies

Address: See remarks

Remarks: County Clerk in county where license was issued.

Event: Divorce (State)

Cost of copy: $13.00

Address:
Vital Records
3423 North Martin Luther King Boulevard
P.O. Box 30195
Lansing, MI 48909

Remarks: Records since 1897. Some divorces (especially pre-1924) were not filed with the state.

Event: Divorce (county)

Cost of copy: Varies

Address: See remarks

Remarks: County Clerk in county where divorce was granted.