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Western Michigan Genealogical Society

Browsing Posts published in April, 2010

I’m a slow learner sometimes. It just became clear to me that most of the 1928 and 1929 death records for the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan are available online – and have been for a fairly long time! In March 2009, SeekingMichigan.org introduced the Death Records database of almost a million images of the […]

Researchers like to have the details right. One such researcher asked this question recently. “Does anyone know when the 1840 census for New York would have been counted?  I have checked WMGS forms for the Federal census and do not see a date anywhere.  I checked all of the pages available to me on Ancestry.  […]