Looking for marriage of Lemuel Dawson in ST. Joseph Co. Index 1832 - 1887. Need marriage for Lemuel Dawson & Angeline Cayser/Kaiser. m. before possible m. before 1852. Also any information on Angeline's parents.
Angelina b. abt. 1825 Ohio. d. 1862 - 1866 Waupaca Co., Wisconsin. She was my gggranndmother. There are no burial records for her.

From the Michigan Genealogical Council, it should be noted that there is a support group here on Genealogy Wise:

From: Roger Moffat

Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:15 PM

To: fsindexing@mimgc.org

Subject: New MGC Project with FamilySearch Indexing - Michigan Marriages

MGC Delegates:

The Michigan Genealogical Council is happy to announce that it is partnering with FamilySearch on a new indexing project involving Michigan Marriages. Details on this project can be seen here

https://indexing.familysearch.org/projects/viewProject.jsf?url=USMi...

or if the above link doesn't work

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ddyeop

The project launched this Tuesday, January 18, 2011 with records from seven Michigan counties available at FamilySearch Indexing. The overall project will consist of four parts and includes over 240 reels of film. When completed, both the indexes and images will be available on http://familysearch.org/ for free.

The project is open to everyone and we encourage everybody with an interest in Michigan genealogy to volunteer in the indexing. The indexing process is easy to set up and very convenient. It can be done at your home and anytime day or night and for as little or as much time as you wish. The FamilySearch site provides plenty of training materials, resources, and other avenues of help.

An Indexer may also contact the administrators of the project for any type of assistance. Roger Moffat, MGC Project Chairman, and Byron Bailey, MGC Farmington delegate will be the Administrators for the project. You may contact the administrators by sending eMail to: fsindexing@mimgc.org.

An MGC webpage - http://mimgc.org/projects/ - will be available soon to provide updates, tips and other information about the project as we progress.

We have set up a group within FamilySearch Indexing called Michigan Genealogical Council. We invite anyone wishing to participate in this project to join this group. You can get started by going to http://familysearchindexing.org/ and registering to index. If you are already an existing FamilySearch Indexer, the

US, Michigan - County Marriages 1820-1956 [Part A]

project shows in the list of available Batches in your Indexing software.

We will need the support from all of our societies. Please inform your local Societies and their members about this project and help us to recruit Indexers. You may also recommend some Arbitrators, but note - Arbitrators should be experienced FamilySearch Indexing Indexers.

Thank you.

Roger Moffat

Projects Chairman

Michigan Genealogical Council

I was sent this CW soldier pension file in error by the National Archives. I thought that it may help someone who is resaerching in the state of Michigan. It is a pension file for Michael Wolvin of Co. F 22nd Michigan Volunteers. He and his family are from Macomb County, Michigan.  This is a pdf file. Happy ancestor hunting! 

SCAN4328_000.pdf

The Western Michigan Genealogy Society is sponsoring a bus trip to Ft. Wayne, IN and will be stoping in Lansing if there are enough people interested in going.

Greetings -  Anyone who might have a family connection please get in touch.

 I have spent a great deal of time, attempting to locate one individual, who happens to be my 3x great grandmother.  Rose E Gee was born in Essex County, Ontario, Canada  around 1832 and arrived in the US about 1844.  She married Archibald A Ruby, in Wayne County, MI in 1859. All is fine and good until 1902.  She is mentioned in her brother, Victor's obituary being

in Solcum, Muskegon, Michigan.  Then in 1905, Archie died in Casnovia, Michigan and Rose disappears.   In fact, several people are trying to find out anything about what happened to Rose.

Her name usually appears on Census records, etc, as Rose but sometimes on other records as Rosella, Rosy or Rosie.   

   If anyone feels confident that they might be able to figure this one out,  please feel free. I have a bit of experience but so far have come up empty handed.   I suspect is that she may passed away shortly after Archie, considering she would have been 73 ish then.  I have searched through extending family, siblings, parents and relatives.  I can account for far too many of the Gee family, which the exception of Rose.  I have searched Muskegon Chronicle and

Grand Rapids Press archives diligently and the last mention was 1902 in Victor Gee's obituary.  I do have husband Archie's death certificate, not a word about Rose, other than "married."  Thanks.

From the Michigan Genealogical Council:

From: Tom Koselka
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:24 AM
Subject: MGC - Fw. URL changes from the Library of Michigan

Good morning,

If your society webpage currently has links to the Michigan Cemetery Sources Website and/or MeL, please read the following two URL change bulletins from the Library of Michigan and share them with your webmaster.

Thank you
Tom Koselka, Corresponding Secretary
Michigan Genealogical Council

Sent: Tue 4/19/2011 2:45 PM

Subject: Michigan Cemetery Sources Database URL Change

The Michigan Cemetery Sources Website has been moved to a new location as of 04-11-2011.  Please update your bookmarks to reflect the new location of this resource.  The new address link is http://libraryofmichigan.state.mi.us/MichiganCemeteries/ .

The old page will be removed on 05-11-2011.  At that time, this old page will return a "Page Not Found" status.

For those unfamiliar with the Michigan Cemetery Sources Database, it began as a printed bibliography of cemetery readings available at the Library of Michigan.  As publishing an update of the book became impossibly expensive, the bibliography was converted into an online database, which is free for anyone anywhere. 

Users can still find a list of cemetery listings (burial lists) available at the Library of Michigan as well as links to cemetery lists online.  We add links as time allows.  Researchers can search for cemetery lists by county, township, location, and cemetery name.  

Because researchers often ask, I will point out that the Michigan Cemetery Sources Database does NOT include a name index.  No universal or statewide name index (at least for Michigan) exists at this time.

Thanks,

Kendel Joy Darragh

Reference Librarian

Library of Michigan

Sent: Tue 4/19/2011 2:15 PM

Subject: Updated links for MeL.org

Greetings,

You may have caught the Michlib-l message a couple of weeks back that MeL has upgraded its content management system. Unfortunately, it caused all of the links at MeL.org aside from MeLCat-related links to break. Please take a few moments to look through your sites for broken MeL links. Below are a list of our marketing URLs which may come in handy when updating your site. If the links you need don’t appear on this list the best way to get the correct URL is to go to mel.org and navigate to the page you need.

Cheers,

Sonya

Sonya Schryer Norris

Web site administrator

Library of Michigan

Happy Easter.

Civil War History in Michigan:

http://www.freep.com/article/20110424/NEWS06/104240424/1001/rss01

Congrats Eaton Co. Genealogy Soc.

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110...

Those who missed the April meeting of the Mid-Michigan Genealogical Society, we have the slide presentation here: From presenter, Dirk Schweitzer:
 
http://dirkschweitzer.net/1104-MidMichigan-GeneticGenealogyTalkDSch...   It will take at least 30 seconds to download to a temporary file.  You must have Acrobat Reader to open and read this file.  If you don’t have it, get a free copy at:
http://get.adobe.com/reader/ 

The May meeting will have a panel of members who have taken the DNA test and what information it has provided them.

An interesting article in the May issue of DISCOVER indicated that we have 3% Neanderthal and up to 5% Denisovan that make up our genetic pool.

I have also started to read MEETING THE FAMILY. ONE MAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH HIS HUMAN ANCESTRY, by Donovan Webster. Mr. Webster took the DNA test through the National Geographic project.  So far it is proving interesting reading.

Good opportunity to find genealogy and history books that may relate to your research. http://annarborbookfair.com/

The May/June 2011 issue of FAMILY CHRONICLE mainly relates to Civil Research, but also has an article on using wills and probate records.

My BOONE family settled in Norway,Dickinson County,MI in the late 1890's. If anyone has Boone or TREVES in that area please let me know as I might have info to exchange.

Subject: For non profit organizations -Charitable Deductions Are At Risk of Being Eliminated

Charitable Deductions Are At Risk of Being Eliminated
President Obama recently announced his intention to create a new work-group composed of leaders from both parties to reach a final agreement on a plan to reduce the deficit. Among the items that the President specifically addressed in his four-part proposal to reduce the deficit was spending on itemized deductions -- “from home ownership to charitable giving.” Please contact your members of Congress and ask them to protect the charitable deduction as a fair and important incentive for charitable giving. Let them know that your organization depends on the charitable gifts that this tax incentive generates. Please click here for more information on what you can do to help preserve the charitable deduction.

Nancy Finegood

Executive Director

Michigan Historic Preservation Network

www.mhpn.org

107 East Grand River

Lansing, MI 48906

From Eastman's Online newsletter -

Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Cemetery Records are available Online:

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/05/mt-pleasant-michigan-cemetery-records-are-available-online.html#more

From Michigan Genealogical Council -

From: Tom Koselka

Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 3:13 PM

Subject: MGC announcement July 2011 Abrams Genealogy Seminar at the Archives of Michgian

Dear genealogist,

The details of the 2011Abrams Genealogy Seminar at the Archives of Michigan are now on-line at http://mimgc.org/2011AbramsSeminar. This seminar will take place at the Michigan Historical Center, home of the Archives of Michigan, in Lansing on Saturday, July 16, 2011 from 9 a.m. to 5p.m.

This page will be updated as the seminar approaches.  Online registration is available through the SeekingMichigan.com Store.  Regular snail mail registration is through the Michigan Genealogical Council.  Links to both are near the bottom of the above webpage.  Also included are links to download a flyer and schedule of that day’s events.

The Abrams Genealogy Seminar is sponsored by the Abrams Foundation, the Archives of Michigan, and the Michigan Genealogical Council.  Our keynote speaker is David E. Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer at FamilySearch.

Registration, which includes a box lunch, is $35 if postmarked by July 6 and $45 if postmarked thereafter. 

Please feel free to redistribute the flyer, schedule and registrations materials to you membership and at your nearby research facilities.  If you would prefer a pdf attachment or a paper copy snail mailed to you, please respond to this e-mail and specify your preference.

If you have any questions or wish additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best wishes,

Tom Koselka, Corresponding Secretary

Michigan Genealogical Council

http://mimgc.org

From Jan Sedore

               Welch Hardware to Become Welch Historical Museum After Huge Auction.     The Welch Sunfield Hardware store, which has been in the family for 101 years and through three generations, has closed, but the history of the Welch Hardware business does not end just yet.  On July 1 the Welch family will turn over the deed to the property to the Sunfield History Society.    This donation from the Welch family to the history group comes with the stipulation that the former store will become a historical museum to preserve and protect the history of Sunfield and surrounding areas. The Society has decided to name their gift the “Welch Historical Museum” in appreciation of the family’s generosity and to honor the family’s long history and important role in the community.

                However, a big event is planned there before the deed changes hands.   The owners, Lindsay and Brenda Welch, have asked Glen Rairigh of Americana Auctions, to sell the remaining store contents and their super collection of game mounts, antiques, collectibles and items that have been hidden away for years....all at a super one day auction event.

Flyers with pictures and descriptions of some of the hundreds of fantastic finds at this super auction are available at the IGA and Marko’s as well as other merchants around the village.  Additional “discovered items” will be photographed and posted on the Americana Auction website, AmericanaAuctions.com a href="http://americanaauctions.com/>">http://americanaauctions.com/>;.  This will be the grandest auction the Village of Sunfield has ever seen.  You can also visit

the storefront windows at the hardware store which have been filled with items retrieved from storage, and look like a display from the 1950s.  Bring the children to see this display of history.

                The auction will take place at the Welch Hardware store, 161 Main Street, Sunfield, MI on Saturday, June 25 at 10 AM.  Doors open at 8:30 AM for preview.  All items sold “as is”.  VISA, MC, DISCOVER cards accepted.  Bidders must present proof of ID and all sales final.  Be prepared for a fast-paced auction.  One sales ring only.  Bring your van and assistants to help carry away your fantastic finds at this super auction.  The Friends of the Sunfield District will provide a food concession on site during the auction featuring $1 hotdogs with all the trimmings, .50 cent donuts and rolls, .25 cent coffee, cold waters, etc.

                As a boost for the new museum, Glen Rairigh will issue tax exemption forms on site for income tax deductions to anyone who purchases items and then donates them to the Sunfield  istory Society for display at the museum.

                In 1921 Ray Welch traded his farm to start a John Deere sales, service and repair business in Sunfield.  He was quite successful and had to move to larger quarters a couple of times.  On May 10, 1934, a fire destroyed his place of business.  Afterward, he established a business in the Quonset-style building near the southeast corner of First and Main Streets, and later purchased the Cole Building, which is the central part of

the current Welch Hardware store.   In November of that year Ray's wife Myrtie convinced him that they needed to add a line of hardware to the store.  They traveled to Grand Rapids and purchased household items: kitchen dishes, pots and pans and toys, books and games for children as well as small gift items, all things that were not available in Sunfield.

                When son P. J. came home from service in the Army they sold him a half interest in the business and the name was changed to Welch & Son Hardware.  They purchased the building to the east of them and later the Norte Building on the west, thus making the large establishment of today.

                While much refurbishing lays ahead to convert the building, members of the Sunfield History Society are busy making plans of how they will use this generous gift.  They will now have a place of their own for weekly meeting and plan to have a special monthly event for the community. Collections of historical documents will all be stored in one place.  They

plan to have one room as a school room from yesteryear and another as an old fashioned kitchen.  Walls will be filled with the many photographs which have been donated to the group.  There will permanent displays and some that will change periodically as community members loan or donate items.  The

museum will be open for school groups to visit and discover their history.

Adults will be encouraged to visit also and support the museum.  The Society plans on publishing a quarterly newsletter.  A membership drive will begin soon.

are you adding a S onto Robertsons, Higleys, Potters Edwards? Is that their surname or without the S?

Is BROCK another surname you are researching?

For Worden my apologies to lazy to use correct grammer. I am researching over 300 people with those names.

For Davis I have extensive records and data for Marine City and St Clair City.My ancestor James Robertson was born in middle 1700's He with John Askin and others were the first to own land on the St Clair River in the Cotterville area. I am interested in any pre 1800 info on Robertson's Edward's Potter's McNiff"s et al.

I have detailed data on James Robertson Family which located in Cotterville. James and Sally Edwards were possibly married in Detroit.

I do have French ancestors. The Robertsons can be found working and living with the early French,  However the initial pioneers can be traced by land grant actions. Also the french were not the first the Indian and Engish came at the same time.

I am trying to find someone who has been tracing the extensive Robertson familys who started in Cotterville around the 1790's and before 1800.  I have been working on thls for 35 years.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

The First Families of Ionia County Society is an organization dedicatedto honoring and preserving the heritage of the families that were the earlysettlers of IoniaCounty.

Planning is underway for The First Families of Ionia County Society’sFourteenth Annual Awards Banquet. This year’s banquet will be heldSaturday, October 15th at the Outreach Christian Church located at 7381 Jordan Lake Road, Lake Odessa Michigan.

The society is accepting application for membership. To be eligible, onemust provide documentation proving an ancestor resided in Ionia Countyprior to December 31, 1880. The deadline for submission is September 1, 2011.

A workshop will be heldon Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. at the FreightHouse Museum,1117 Emerson Street,Lake Odessa. This informational workshop is opento the public and free of charge. For more information call 616-374-8455 oremail ioniacogensoc@yahoo.com

Across the Border: Canadians in the Upper Peninsula

On Thursday, August 4 at 7 p.m., the Chassell Heritage Center will open a new exhibition, Across the Border: Canadians in the Upper Peninsula, on loan from Northern Michigan University ’s BeaumierU.P. Heritage Center, with a program featuring traditional French-Canadian songs by Maple Sugar Folk.  Light refreshments will be provided. 

Across the Border focuses primarily on the immigration of Canadians to the Upper Peninsula during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  However, the story begins much farther back than that with the Anishinaabeg people who have lived on both sides of what they view as purely a political border for centuries.  The very nature of this border, which has been seen at times as irrelevant and porous, will be discussed in this exhibition as will the nature of Canadian identity as it relates to the immigration of people to the Upper Peninsula from Québec and Ontario.   

One of the most interesting parts of this exhibition will be the spotlight on specific families who came from Canada to the Upper Peninsula looking at the experiences they had before and after they immigrated to the region. There will also be a focus on specific communities that had significant settlements of Canadian people. Chassell and Lake Linden are among the communities featured.

Across the Border will be on display through August 30, 2011. The Chassell Heritage Center is located at 42373 North Hancock Street, Chassell (from US 41, turn west onto 2nd Street ) and is open Tuesdays 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. and Thursdays 4:00 to 9:00 p.m.

The exhibition was funded by Cliffs Natural Resources, NMU's College of Arts and Sciences and the Province of Québec Chicago Delegation.

Oakland Co. Genealogical Soc.

Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society

Schedule

Kalamazoo cemeteries

INGHAM CO. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Meeting Place: Vevay Township Hall
780 Eden Road
Mason, Michigan

7 pm.

September 22

Macomb Co., M

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mimcgg/

Flat River Historical Society

http://www.flatriverhistoricalsociety.org/