{"id":192,"date":"2017-04-19T22:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2017-04-19T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T05:12:18","slug":"finding-michigan-if-you-seek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/finding-michigan-if-you-seek\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Michigan: \u201cIf You Seek \u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re searching for information on ancestors who lived in Michigan, as did mine, there are a few <strong>free<\/strong> web sites that should prove helpful.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/seekingmichigan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seeking Michigan<\/a>: Death certificates or registrations from 1897 through 1952 are searchable by name, location, and\/or date. Digital images of <strong>death certificates<\/strong> are available in many cases. State <strong>censuses<\/strong> from 1827-1874 and from 1884-1894 are also available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/seekingmichigan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/seekingmichigan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"988\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/seekingmichigan.jpg 988w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/seekingmichigan-300x115.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/seekingmichigan-768x295.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/micounty?key=subject;page=browse\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan County Histories and Atlases<\/a>, a project of the University of Michigan Library: Useful for finding <strong>family farms<\/strong> from the last quarter of the 1800s into the early 1900s via the county township maps annotated with landowner names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/michiganatlases.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/michiganatlases.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/michiganatlases.jpg 562w, https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/michiganatlases-300x104.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/onlinenewspapersite\/Home\/usa\/mi\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan Online Historical Newspapers<\/a>, a Google resource: Some <strong>newspaper archives<\/strong> are available for searching and reading. The selection is limited, but was a rich resource for the Owosso area, where many of my wife\u2019s family members lived.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/stevemorse.org\/census\/changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Obtaining Street Name Changes<\/a>: A reference guide for finding <strong>current house numbers<\/strong> and street names for addresses which changed over the years. Though the resource is for various locations around the nation, there are links to Michigan-specific towns such as Grand Rapids and Detroit. The latter was particularly useful for finding current locations of addresses prior to 1921, when Detroit changed it\u2019s house numbering system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/familysearch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FamilySearch.org<\/a>: The <strong>web\u2019s best free resource<\/strong> for finding information on ancestors in Michigan, or anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re searching for information on ancestors who lived in Michigan, as did mine, there are a few free web sites that should prove helpful. \u2022 Seeking Michigan: Death certificates or registrations from 1897 through 1952 are searchable by name, location, and\/or date. Digital images of death certificates are available in many cases. State censuses &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/2017\/04\/19\/finding-michigan-if-you-seek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finding Michigan: \u201cIf You Seek \u2026\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.thundermoon.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}