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The hardest part of research is knowing your next step. The guides below can help you find the next database, book, or primary resource on your journey.
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This guide is a step-by-step outline for those who are beginning their genealogy research. Begin with what you know and build your family tree with details from the census. Once you have basic facts in place, start looking for vital records to corroborate information from the census. Dates and locations gathered from vital records can help you trace family stories.
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These guides give an overview of material at the Archives of Michigan by subject. They typically contain a record group number or manuscript number, date range, and brief description of the content.
Accounts Books and Ledgers
Aeronautics Records
Architectural Plans and Drawings
Associations & Organizations Records
Bounties, Premiums, & Subsidies
Business Records
Census Records I: State
Census Records II: Special
Court Records
Civil War Manuscripts
Commissions Records
Committee Records
Confidential Records
Corporation Records
Correctional Records
Depression Era Agencies
Diaries & Personal Journals
Election Records: State and Local
Fairs and Expositions
Fishing Records
Game and Wildlife Records
Genealogy Research
Handicapped, Records about the
Infirmaries, Sanatoria, & Poor Homes
Investigations
Land Records
Legislative Records
Libraries, Records on
Licensed Professions
Lumbering, Logging, and Forestry
Manuscript Records
Aeronautics Records
Architectural Plans and Drawings
Associations & Organizations Records
Bounties, Premiums, & Subsidies
Business Records
Census Records I: State
Census Records II: Special
Court Records
Civil War Manuscripts
Commissions Records
Committee Records
Confidential Records
Corporation Records
Correctional Records
Depression Era Agencies
Diaries & Personal Journals
Election Records: State and Local
Fairs and Expositions
Fishing Records
Game and Wildlife Records
Genealogy Research
Handicapped, Records about the
Infirmaries, Sanatoria, & Poor Homes
Investigations
Land Records
Legislative Records
Libraries, Records on
Licensed Professions
Lumbering, Logging, and Forestry
Manuscript Records
Military I: War Records
Military II: Post War Records
Military III: Local Records
Military: Spanish American War
Military: World War I
Mining Records
Minority I: African Americans
Minority II: Native Americans
Minority III: Asians and Hispanics
Naturalization Records
Pardons, Paroles, & Extraditions
Parks Records
Photography Records
Politician’s Records
Pollution, Records about
Public Land Grants/Private Claims
Public Officials: Civil-Military
Railroad Records
Roads and Bridges
Rural Property Inventories
School Records
Scrapbooks and Albums
Shipping and Navigation
Studies
Surveyor’s Records
Swamp Lands Records
Task Forces, Councils and Boards
Tax/Assessment Rolls
Vital Records
Women, Records relating to
Youths, Records relating to
Military II: Post War Records
Military III: Local Records
Military: Spanish American War
Military: World War I
Mining Records
Minority I: African Americans
Minority II: Native Americans
Minority III: Asians and Hispanics
Naturalization Records
Pardons, Paroles, & Extraditions
Parks Records
Photography Records
Politician’s Records
Pollution, Records about
Public Land Grants/Private Claims
Public Officials: Civil-Military
Railroad Records
Roads and Bridges
Rural Property Inventories
School Records
Scrapbooks and Albums
Shipping and Navigation
Studies
Surveyor’s Records
Swamp Lands Records
Task Forces, Councils and Boards
Tax/Assessment Rolls
Vital Records
Women, Records relating to
Youths, Records relating to
