Where
can I find vital records in Michigan?
First off, you need to know that there is no web site where you can go
to view or order all vital records from the State of Michigan for free.
You can however, find information on how to obtain birth, marriage, and
death records for a fee on the State
of Michigan web site, State
Archives of Michigan web site, or from VitalRec.com.
These sources can all provide you with an actual copy of a birth, marriage,
or death certificate.
If
you are looking for basic information and don't require an
actual certificate, you can consider other sources. The following
sources can provide you with basic vital record information
but they do not provide all of the same information
you would find on an actual certificate. These sources generally
will give you the name of the person, date of death, place
of death, and date of birth. They will not give
you such information as: next of kin, cause of death, country/village
of origin, etc.
- If
you are a subscriber to Ancestry.com,
you can view some records online (These are not the actual
documents but digital records). They have the databases
for the following categories:
- Abstract
of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots
- Iosco
County, Michigan, 1901-99: Esmond-Evergreen Cemetery
- Michigan
Deaths, 1971-96
- Michigan
Marriages to 1850
- Michigan
Marriages, 1851-75
- Oakland
County, Michigan Vital Records, 1800-1917
- Social
Security Death Index
- US & British
Isle, Joseph Thomas Biographical Dictionary: 1890
- Michigan
Military Records, 1775-1836
- The MIGenWeb
web site has a wide variety
of volunteer-submitted databases. Some of these
include birth, marriage, and death records for
individuals in Michigan. They are organized by
county. These records are not complete but it is
free to search them, so if you have the time, you
might want to check them out.
- The Burton
Collection, at the Main
Detroit Public Library, has the following information
available:
- Michigan
Marriage Index 1872-1920
- Michigan
Death Index 1867-1914
- Detroit
Death Index 1920-2001
- Military
Records -- Civil War service records, World War I
draft registration cards
- The
following vital record databases are searchable for free:
- Search
Systems - Michigan This
web page lists a wide variety of free and pay databases
for Michigan including some cemeteries, businesses,
obituaries, etc. Check it out!
Where
can I find an address for a church in Michigan?
I
want a Catholic Church baptism/marriage/death record
from a parish in the Archdiocese of Detroit. Should I
write to the church or to the Archdiocese?
The
Archdiocese would prefer you write to the individual
church if parish is still open. For more information,
see the Sacramental
Records section of the
Archdiocese of Detroit web site.
I
think the Detroit parish I need a record from is now
closed. How can I find out for sure and where can I get
the record?
The Archdiocese of Detroit has a list of all the closed
parishes on their web site. The site also provides
contact information for the Archivist.
How
can I look up cemetery records in the Detroit area?
There is no online database for all the
cemeteries in southeast Michigan (don’t we
wish!) so don’t bother looking. But here
are the links to and information about the cemeteries
of most interest to those researching Polish relatives
in the metro-Detroit area:
- Sweetest
Heart of Mary (Sacred Heart) Cemetery,
Detroit.
- The
PGSM has cataloged over 5,000 of the gravestones
in the North Section (oldest section) of this cemetery.
We are currently looking at ways to make this information
available to the public.
- Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Detroit.
- Holy
Cross Cemetery, Detroit.
- The Downriver
Genealogical Society is
currently working on cataloging all the graves
in this cemetery. They have received permission
from the Archdiocese of Detroit to publish
not only the gravestone inscriptions, but
additional information available in the cemetery
records office regarding each burial. They
are publishing the records by cemetery section
as they are completed. Currently they have
2 sections completed, published, and for
sale. They expect to have 2 more section
publications available for sale by mid-March
2003. They will continue the project until
they have completed the entire cemetery.
You can find information to purchase
the publications on the DRGS web site,
or you can save the postage by buying them
at a DGRS monthly meeting (Wyandotte).
- The
PGSM published an article in the September 1986 issue
of the Eaglet about the cemetery and there is a list
of names of gravestones that have photos on them.
- Interment.net (Website
where people voluntarily submit names of those buried
in the cemetery.)
- St.
Hedwig Cemetery, Dearborn Hts.
- The
PGSM published an article in the September 1985 issues
of the Eaglet about the cemetery and there is a list
of names of gravestones that have photos on them.
- Interment.net (Website
where people voluntarily submit names of those buried
in the cemetery.)
- Michigan
GenWeb (Website
where people voluntarily submit names of
those buried in the cemetery.)
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