Happy Easter

Happy Easter from all the volunteers at the MiGenWeb Project. Remember the old Russian proverb, "We live as long as we are remembered". Honor the ancestors by starting your family tree today!

Detroit Research on Facebook

Looking for some help? Try this facebook page: Detroit Genealogy Also, here is a list of some of the new Facebook pages for genealogy: CLICK HERE

Michigan Marriage Index

Now online at familysearch.org! CLICK HERE. This Collection will include records from 1868 to 1925. Most of this collection consists of marriage licenses, applications, records, registers, and certificates. The records are arranged by county, then by volume and year range. The form type varies between register style and certificate style. County clerks usually used the same printed form during the same time periods. Marriage records were generally well preserved, although fires, floods, or other disasters may have destroyed some records. The earliest marriage bonds and licenses were usually handwritten on loose papers that were later bound into lettered volumes. Some marriage records had multiple entries on each page, while others had single records per page.. An 1805 law required registration of marriages with the clerk of the local district court. In 1867 an additional law required the counties to send copies of the records to the Office of the State Registrar. A very high percentage of marriages that took place in Michigan were recorded by civil authorities. Marriages were usually recorded by the clerk of the district court for each county from the time the county was formed. Persons desiring to marry obtained a license that they presented to the minister or other person authorized to marry, such as a justice of the peace. Once the marriage was performed, the officiator sent a return to the clerk confirming that the marriage had occurred. Counties in Michigan recorded marriages to legalize marital relationships and to protect the interests of the wife and other heirs to legal claims on property. The marriage date, place, residence of the bride and groom, and occupations are relatively reliable. Other information, such as age or birthplace, is dependent on the knowledge, memory, and accuracy of the informants, usually the bride and groom.

Michigan Genealogy on Facebook

Check out this Facebook page on Michigan Genealogy, it is run by Family Search. MICHIGAN GENEALOGY ON FACEBOOK

Google Newspaper Archives

My motto is, "Leave no stone unturned" when working on the family tree. Try google newspaper archives for your surnames at GOOGLE NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES.

The History of Detroit and Michigan--free eBook

The History of Detroit and Michigan: Or, the Metropolis Illustrated ; a Chronological Cyclopaedia of the Past and Present, Including a Full Record of Territorial Days in Michigan, and the Annals of Wayne County is available as a free eBook on google. http://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_Detroit_and_Michigan.html?id=2dtMHBxD6R8C

Facebook

Are you on Facebook? Lots of good genealogy groups are now on Facebook, try this one next: RootsWeb genealogists.