Ethnic groups

About 75 ethnic groups from 150 countries live in Michigan making it one of the most ethnically diverse states in the United States. Genealogy sources for ethnic groups in Michigan include the following.

African American

• Michigan People of Color <www.rootsweb.com/~miafamer/index.html>
• Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History <www.maah-detroit.org/>
• MICHIGAN-AFAM-L <lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MI/misc.html>

Cornish

• Cornish to Michigan <www.mfhn.com/houghton/rosscoll/>

Dutch

• The Dutch in Kalamazoo <www.rootsweb.com/~mikalama/dutchin.htm>
• Heritage Hall <www.calvin.edu/hh/>
• The Joint Archives of Holland <www.hope.edu/jointarchives/>

Finns

• Finnish-American Heritage Center <www.finlandia.edu/fahc.html>
• Finnish of Houghton and the Upper Peninsula <www.mfhn.com/houghton/finn/>

French-Canadian

• French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan <habitant.org/fchsm/>

Irish

• Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan <www.rootsweb.com/~miigsm/>
• IRISH-MI-L <lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MI/misc.html> and its companion Web site Irish in Michigan <home.carolina.rr.com/ninah/irishmi/index.htm>

Italian

• Italians of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan <www.mfhn.com/houghton/ItaliansRice/>

Jewish

• Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index <www.thisisfederation.org/Cemetery/default.asp>
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan <www.jgsmi.org/>

Native American

• Native Genealogy -- People of the Three Fires <www.rootsweb.com/~minatam/>
• NISHNAWBE-L <lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MI/misc.html>

Polish

• Detroit Area Polonia and the City of Hamtramck Genealogical Web site <www.rootsweb.com/~miwayne/hamtramck.htm>
• First Polanders to Homestead in Presque Isle County <members.aol.com/alpenaco/presque/1stpoles.htm>
• Michigan Polonia <www.mipolonia.net> and its companion mailing list MI-POLISH-L <lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Polish/MI-POLISH.html>
• Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan <www.pgsm.org/>
• Polish Legacy in Cedar <www.leelanauhistory.org/projects/polishlegacy>

For more information about the people of Michigan, see Chapter 8 of Michigan Genealogy.

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