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Archives and Libraries
- Check The Family History Library catalog - Washtenaw County -- to see what has been filmed for Washtenaw county. Be sure to click View Related Places (upper right corner) to see what is available for the villages, cities and townships.
- Visit the GSWC Library and Family History Library in Saline (the two libraries are housed in one room)
- The Ypsilanti District Library (Whittaker Road Branch) has a Michigan/Ypsilanti Heritage Room. and the collection includes some basic genealogy reference books. Their database collection includes Ancestry Library Edition and Heritage Quest. See also their subject guide to the internet: genealogy.
- The Ypsilanti Historical Society has a substantial archives collection covering the Ypsilanti area. A photo archives from that collection is available online, where they can be searched or browsed. (when browsing, note you must click "next" upper left corner to see more records; only 40 display on a page and there are over 200 photographs in the collection.)
- The Ann Arbor District Library have a local history room which includes a substantial amount of material covering Ann Arbor and Washtenaw county. Their database colleciton includes Ancestry Library Edition, Heritage Quest and Biography and Genealogy Master Index. There are a limited number of genealogy reference books in the collection. See their "local history" page, which contains an interesting blog as well as links to some digital collections available online.
- McKune Memorial Library in Chelsea has a searchable Family History Index, which contains over 15,000 names and digitized images of a card index held in their library.
- The Saline District Library in conjunction with the Saline Historical Society offers a database of Saline historical photographs, which can be searched or browsed. Note if you browse, you must click on "next" upper right corner to see more pictures. Some genealogy reference books are available at the Saline District Library, as well as online databases.
- The University of Michigan Library has some materials of general interest to the genealogist; See their guide to Resources on Genealogy. They have local Ann Arbor newspapers on microfilm, as well as those from Detroit and some other large cities. They also have a complete microfilm collection of Michigan census and soundex records.
- The University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library contains archival material for the university, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County and the rest of Michigan.
- List of local and regional libraries, with links.
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Cemeteries
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The GSWC Webpage is very well done and gives a lot of information about the Washtenaw Co. research as well as links and advice for research beyond Washtenaw County.
The US GenWeb page for Washtenaw County is very well maintained; both pages contain a lot of valuable information; I encourage researchers with Washtenaw County ancestors to visit both. If you have information to contribute, please take the time to do so.
If you want Washtenaw County research done for you at a fee, contact me at barbsnow@comcast.net. The GSWC offers a research service for a donation of $10.00. The $10.00 is used to buy books for the GSWC library. As librarian for the society, I buy books and CDs that will help people with their research methodology, as well as provide source information for Washtenaw Coutny and Michigan ancestor. Our library is located in the Ann Arbor LDS Library, so it is available to a large number of researchers. Your donation will help us add material that will in turn help others. This is what I love about genealogy. My grandmother used to say "what goes around, comes around." And how true this is -- and in such a good way -- with genealogical research. For $10.00 you will get basic, but good research on one surname. It is important that you tell me what you already know, so we do not spend time finding out information that is already in your files!
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This page last updated
June 22, 2010
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