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Michigan Genealogy: Sources and Resources, published by Genealogical Publishing Co., can be ordered online.

Chapter 1: "…the earthly paradise"

  • Early Exploration
  • Settlers Arrive in Number
  • Historical Highlights

Chapter 2: The Settlement of Michigan

  • Factors Influencing Settlement
  • Settlement Patterns
  • Records that Give Clues About Immigration or Migration, such as Naturalizations

Chapter 3: Vital Records

  • Marriages
  • Divorces
  • Deaths
  • Births
  • Locations of Records

Chapter 4: Alternative Sources for Vital Records

  • Bible Records
  • Diaries
  • Information from Others
  • DAR Records
  • Church and Synagogue Records
  • Cemetery and Related Records
  • Newspapers and Obituaries
  • Military and Military-related Records
  • Michigan Historical Collections
  • County and Regional Histories
  • Biographies
  • Periodicals Indexes

Chapter 5: Finding Families: Census Records and Their Substitutes

  • Census Records
  • Directories
  • Census Substitutes

Chapter 6: Land and Court Records

  • Land and Property Records
  • Maps and Gazetteers
  • Michigan's Court System
  • Probate Law and Records
  • Locations of Other Court Records
  • A Word About Women and the Law
  • Adoptions

Chapter 7: Digging Deeper

  • Manuscript Collections
  • Business Records
  • Institutional Records
  • Crimes and Criminals
  • Coroners' Files
  • ERO Files
  • Orphans and Orphanages
  • Fraternal and Other Organizational Records
  • Territorial Records
  • Michigan Manual
  • Depression-era Records
  • Land Exchange Files
  • Disasters
  • Life in Michigan
  • Records in Canada

Chapter 8: The People of Michigan

  • Immigration Patterns
  • Michigan's First Residents
  • French and French-Canadians
  • Non-French Canadians
  • British, including English, Scots, Scots Irish, Irish, Cornish, Welsh, Manx
  • African Americans
  • Germans and Germans from Russia
  • Dutch
  • Belgians
  • Scandinavians, including Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, Danes, Icelanders
  • Czechs (Bohemians) and Slovaks
  • Jews
  • Italians
  • South Slavs, including Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, Macedonians, Bosnian Muslims
  • Poles
  • 20th Century Immigrants, including Albanians, Armenians, Asians, Asian Indians, Arabs, Bulgarians, Greeks, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Mexicans, Romanians, Russians, Turks, Ukrainians

Chapter 9: Michigan Online

  • Communication
  • Research

Chapter 10: Counties and Their Records

  • County Records
  • Former Michigan Counties
  • Profiles of Michigan's 83 Counties

Chapter 11: Genealogical Collections

  • Collections in Individual Counties

Chapter 12: Historical and Genealogical Societies

  • Societies in Individual Counties

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