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Comment by Mary Beth Schadel on December 26, 2011 at 4:48pm: I've been looking for a site to look up children's names who went to various MI Indian schools. Any help would be appreciated.

Comment by Anna Patterson on December 23, 2011 at 10:44pm: Is anyone else researching in St. Joseph Co.? My INGRAHAM and PASHBY families lived there, (in Flowerfield and Constantine) from abt. 1840-1890.

Comment by Catherine Davis on December 20, 2011 at 6:59pm: James--see http://www.mare.org/Search/RelBroc.html , scroll down to the section labeled Confidential Intermediary Program. It tells how a child of a deceased adoptee may obtain records. It looks like your questioner would need to know the court where the adoption was finalized.

Comment by Catherine Davis on October 23, 2011 at 5:41pm: His draft registration card gives his birthdate as June 8, 1873, no place listed.

Comment by Catherine Davis on October 23, 2011 at 5:33pm: Sparta is in Kent County. An index to Kent County births for the time in which you are interested is online at http://www.migenweb.net/kent/births/index.html. I didn't see any Aikmans listed though. On the off chance that this index is not complete, you could contact the county, or go to the Library of Michigan in Lansing. This state library has microfilms of all the "returns" of birth records to the state, sorted by county, for the early years.

Comment by Cathy Milioto on October 23, 2011 at 4:52pm: Yes, Debby that is my great grandparents and their children one of which is my grandmother (Fern). I have found them on the census, but am still looking for exactly where my great grandfather was born.

Comment by Debby Parkinson Worden on October 23, 2011 at 3:21pm: 1900 NY Rensselar Co., Troy: Jas Aikman June 1873 MI (father & mother MI0, Augusta Dec 1872 NY, Viola July 1898 NY

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1930 MI Genesee Co., Flint: James M 54 MI/Scot/Scot, Augusta J 53, Merrett 23, Edon 17

Comment by Debby Parkinson Worden on October 23, 2011 at 2:53pm: I see a James Aikman in 1920 census MI, Otsego Co Vanderbilt Twp:

James 46, Augusta 46, Vena 21, Fern 18, Merritte 13, Margaret 9, Eldon 7 is this your James? If yes, he was born NY

Comment by Cathy Milioto on October 23, 2011 at 2:29pm: never mind about the state census for Michigan-there isn't one for the year I need to find my great grandfather.

Comment by Cathy Milioto on October 23, 2011 at 2:21pm: my great grandfather's name was James Michael Aikman, and his delayed birth registraton states that he was born in Sparta Center, Michigan. Is there an 1875 state census for Michigan?