Resources Available at the Grace A. Dow Library

The books below are just a sample of the resources available in the Genealogy Room at the Library - there are hundreds of books and census indexes for most of the United States prior to 1900 and some census indexes and resources for Canada as well.

Books About Midland and the Saginaw Valley:

Michigan's White Pine Era: 1840-1900

Rolland Maybee, Michigan Historical Commission, 1960

Titabawassee River Log Marks, Ralph Stroebel,

Saginaw Public Library Eddy Historical Series #2, Saginaw, 1967

The Story of Logging the White Pine in the Saginaw Valley,

Irene Hargreaves, Red Keg Press, Bay City, 1964

Michigan State Census Indexes 1710 - 1870 
 

 

Dow Chemical and the Dow Family:

The Dow Story: the History of Dow Chemical Company

Don Whitehead, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1968

Dow Research Pioneers: Recollections 1888-1949

Robert Karpicek, Pendell Publishing, Midland, 1984

The Architecture of Alden B. Dow, Sidney Robinson

Wayne State Press, Detroit, 1983 

The County and City of Midland:

Midland County Cemetery Records: (book form) 1850-1894

Midland Obituary Index: 1872-1921

Midland County Cemetery Book

Midland County Census: (book form) 1900, 1910, 1920

Midland City Directories: 1933 and up

 

     Midland City Reports: 1946 to present

 

Midland Telephone Directories: 1949 to present

Midland High School Yearbooks: 1944 to present

Dow High School Yearbooks: 1965 (opening year) to present

    

     Portrait and Biographical Album of Midland County, Chapman Bros., Chicago, 1884 

    

     Midland County Centennial

    

     Stories of Men Who Traveled Through Midland Before 1835

    

     First White People in Midland

    

     A Short History of the Indians of Midland County

    

     Four Early Midland History Facts

        All written and self-bound by Harold and Norman Moll in the 1950's

    

     The County of Midland Michigan 1897

        A Map and Directory

    

     Salt of the Earth: The History of Midland County (an absolutely superb work)

        Dorothy Langdon Yates, Midland County Historical Society, 1987

    

     Sanford Area Centennial 1870- 1970

        A Photo Album Keepsake 

On Microfiche:

    Midland Sun (newspaper): 1883-1927

    Midland Republican (newspaper): 1881-1937

    Midland Daily News (newspaper): 1937 - present 

 

Plus many family histories either on file or on microfiche! 

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Statewide Resources for Genealogical Research

Library of Michigan
   Abrams Foundation Historical Collection: Genealogy and Local History
    717 West Allegan Street
    PO Box 30007
    Lansing, Michigan 48909-7507
    517-373-1580
    Current hours of operation may be obtained through the LOM's website. Click on Family History for
    the genealogy and history information.
    The Library of Michigan is the 4th largest repository of genealogical information in the US.
    The LOM has the complete census for the United States from 1790 through 1930.

Clarke Historical Library
    Central Michigan University
    Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859
    Library Hours:
    Monday through Friday - 8am to 5pm; Saturdays, as scheduled, 8am to 12pm
    The Clarke Historical Library has a listing of its Michigan and US history holdings online, as
    well as a bibliography of materials on Native Americans. Presently, the library has online the
    scanned in 1884 County Histories for Isabella, Gratiot, Midland and other Michigan Counties.

Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library
 

Countrywide Resources for Genealogical Research

Library of Congress

Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois)

New York Public Library

Libweb - Library Servers via the WWW

Vital Statistics: births, marriages, deaths, divorces, and other vital facts

	Midland County Vital Records The Midland County Clerk has birth, marriage, divorce, civil court and land records from 1880  Midland County Clerk  220 W. Ellsworth Midland, Michigan 48640  989-832-6739
	GENDIS A non-indexed site containing the death files from the State of Michigan from 1867 to 1884. Parents and cause of death may also be listed.
	State Wide Obituary Listings Current daily listings from: Ann Arbor News, Bay City Times, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Kalamazoo Gazette, Muskegon Chronicle and the Saginaw News.
	United States Vital Records Information Site. A private genealogy page that contains information on how and where to obtain vital records (such as birth, death, marriage and divorce records) for every territory, state and county in the U.S.

Michigan and US Links: Our ancestors aren't always where we think they are!

Many Michiganians came from New York, Canada, Ireland and Germany

Adoption: A Website of Links and Tips - for those researchers that are touched by adoption.
1895 USA Atlas Searchable state and county maps.
 Michigan GenWeb Master County Index. Links to all the sites within Michigan of the
   MIGENWEB.
The Genealogy Homepage. Sponsored by The Family Tree Maker Online.
The American Immigrant Wall of Honor, Search the Wall. This site allows you to check a name to see if it is on the wall at Ellis Island.
Find The County For Any City In The United States. Enter the name of a city, for instance, Midland, and receive back a listing of all the place names called Midland in the US.
Bureau of Land Management: Eastern States, General Land Office
   Searchable land patents in Michigan and other states.
British Columbia Vital Event Indexes
Ohio Death Index. A searchable index of deaths in the State of Ohio from 1913 to 1937.
Colorado Statewide Marriage and Divorce Index
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites- Michigan. Links to numerous sites.

Get Involved!: Give Help--Get Help

There are a number of ways to get involved in the USGW or MIGENWEB project and help others as well as yourself.

	Volunteers for lookups!. If you own or have access to sources for Isabella County (birth records, marriage records, tax records, cemetery records, biographical information, county or city histories, etc.), sign up to be listed on the "Lookup" page.
	Volunteer to help the USGENWEB Project in your own state or county! Help is needed throughout the country, whether it is for a county coordinator, lookups, the census project, the tombstone project or assisting the county coordinator in maintaining a page. Contact your State Coordinator for more details.