White Pine Public Library

Genealogical Resource Materials

106 E. Walnut
Stanton, Michigan 48888
(989) 831-4327
website

Thanks to Judy Hardy for providing this list of materials.

CENSUS

• 1850 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm County.
• 1850 Federal census index, Montcalm County
• 1850 Federal census
• 1860 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm County
• 1860 Federal census, index, Montcalm County
• 1870 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm County
• 1870 Federal census, index, Montcalm County
• 1870 Federal census, index, State of Michigan
• 1870 Mortality schedule, Michigan, microfilm
• 1880 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm County
• 1880 Federal census, index, Montcalm County
• 1880 Mortality schedule, Michigan, microfilm
• 1884 State census, microfilm, Montcalm County (some townships missing)
• 1884 State census, index, Montcalm County
• 1890 Michigan Veterans census index
• 1890 Michigan Veterans & Widows of veterans census, microfilm
• 1894 State census, microfilm, Montcalm County
• 1894 State census, index, Montcalm County
• 1900 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm County
• 1900 Federal census, index, Montcalm County
• 1910 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm County
• 1910 Federal census, index, Montcalm County
• 1920 Federal census, microfilm, Montcalm, Montgomery and Newaygo counties
• 1920 Federal census, microfilm, parts of Kalamazoo Co, Kalkaska Co., Kent Co, Grand Rapids City
• Montcalm County school census, 1905-1925, Belvidere Township
• Montcalm County school census, 1905-1925, Bloomer Township
• Montcalm County school census, 1905-1925, Bushnell Township
• Montcalm County school census, 1905-1925, Cato Township
• Montcalm County school census for other townships – on going project
• Stanton High School Graduates, 1880-1935

NEWSPAPERS (on microfilm)

• Stanton Clipper Herald, 26 Mar 1880- 31 Dec 1960 (some years missing)
• Greenville Independent, 1 January 1861-11 April 1925
• Greenville Daily Independent, 13 Apr 1925-31 Dec 1926
• Greenville Daily Call, 7 Aug 1922-18 June 1923
• Howard City Record, 22 Aug 1872-25 Dec 1919
• Lakeview Enterprise, 5 January 1894-1 Jul 1965
• Crystal Banner, 9 November 1889-31 Jan 1891
• Fenwick News, 9 January – 13 February 1903; 13 March-3 April 1903; 19 June-26 Jun 1903
• Belding Daily Bee, 17 July – 20 August 1903
• Greenville Daily News, 9 February 1927-31 Dec 1929
• Edmore Times (coming soon) starting with Jan 5, 1939 (nothing saved before that date)
• Book listing the Michigan newspapers on microfilm available at the State of Michigan library

CEMETERY RECORDS

• Tombstone inscriptions and some burial records for all current cemeteries in Montcalm County.
• Surname index for all tombstone inscriptions and burial records in Montcalm County.
• Cemetery records for Gratiot County, 1933-1937
• Michigan cemetery atlas, includes maps and locations of over 3800 burial sites
• Michigan cemetery source book, companion to the Michigan cemetery atlas

VITAL RECORDS

• Michigan marriages, early to 1850
• Index to the Register of deaths, Mt. Pleasant, MI, 1897-1936
• Michigan Death Index, 1867-1882
• Montcalm County death index 1867-1950
• Montcalm County death index and records, microfilm, 1867-1914
• Montcalm County birth index 1871-1970
• Montcalm County marriage index 1851-1970
• Montcalm County marriage index and records, microfilm, 1851-1936
• Montcalm County divorce records, names and dates, 1852-1888
• Montcalm Co. additional deaths/burials gleaned from church, newspaper & funeral home records
• Index to birth, marriages, birthdays, anniversaries, and miscellanous – various years
• Index of obituaries from the Greenville Daily News, 1987-1989
• Fairplains Township burial permits (1940’s-1960’s) and death records, 1918-1922 & 1933-1951
• Montcalm County Obituaries from the Greenville Daily News, 1999
• Ionia County Death index, 1867-1878
• Obituary file containing most of the obits appearing in Daily News since the early 1990’s and some earlier
• Danish Church Records as recorded by Rev. Ole Amble

HISTORIES

• History of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan, by John S. Schenck
• History of Montcalm County by John Dasef
• History of Montcalm County by Chapman
• Portrait and Biographical album of Gratiot county, Michigan
• History of Ferris and Home Townships
• Pleasant Hill memories
• Blanchard Community Centennial, 1873-1973
• Richland Township Centennial, 1869-1969
• Stanton Centennial, 1863-1963
• Trufant History
• Wyman Centennial, 1879-1979
• In Celebration of Breckenridge’s (Gratiot Co.) 125 ^th anniversary, 1861-1986
• Indians, Saw Mills, and Danes: The early history of the Flat River area of Michigan
• Derby Dreams, memories of Derby Lake and Derby Gardens
• Edmore Centennial book, 1878-1978
• Douglass, a Michigan Township
• Ghost Towns of Westville and Slaght’s Mill
• Memories of Colby Ranch
• Historical stories and pictures of the Central Montcalm area
• History of the Greater Greenville area, 1844-1994
• Some Early History of Ferris and Home Townships
• Story of North Sidney Area, 1884-1984

VETERANS

• Patriots: Ionia County, Michigan Men who were in the Civil War, 1861-1865
• DAR Michigan Military Records 

        * Rev soldiers bur in MI, pensioners of territorial MI, MI men awarded
       * Medal of Honor 

• Patriots: Montcalm County, Michigan Men who were in the Civil War, 1861-1865
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial, directory of names
• Michigan’s Own: the Medal of Honor, Civil War to Vietnam War
• Biographical Sketches of Montcalm County Civil War Soldiers
• Record of Civil War Soldiers discharged as recorded at the Montcalm County Clerk’s office
• Michigan Men in the Civil War

FAMILY HISTORIES

• "Dear Carrie….": the Civil War letters of Thomas N. Stevens
• Give God the Glory: Memoirs of a Civil War Soldier, Simon Cummins, 1843-1928
• Genealogy of the Blanding family
• Diligent: a Genealogy of Edwin Alonzo Alvord and Amelia Maria Allen Alvord
• Descendents of George Howorth
• Indented Family Lines of William Harrington, Byron Rummer, Luke Stowell and Issac Pettis
• William Cope, Phoebe Ellsworth: their family and descendents (My Gramma was a Cope)
• Genealogy study: surnames include Card, Crittenden, Ostrom, Brinkman and Roloff
• Noah Family Descendents
• Wilson and Related Families in Hardin County (Ohio) by Robert E. Wilson (includes index)
• Reynolds Pioneering Chronicles: N.Y. and Southern Michigan, surnames Reynolds, Watkins, Hancock
• Patch-Amsbury Family Chronicle: allied lines Gillett, Manning, Marsden, and Norcross
• Broken Ties: the Scrapbook of Bessie Townsend
• Benoni Dickinson and His descendants
• Descendents of Albert Finch, Sr.: (Ackely, Cooper, Craft, Hosner, Proctor, Richards, Senning, Woodbeck)
• Greenhoe Family History: descendents of Michael Greenhoe
• Battling the Bolos: the personal diary of Private J.P. Darling
• History of the Hodges – Ellsworth familes: including related family lines

DANISH RESEARCH

• Searching for your Danish Ancestors
• Beginning Danish Research
• Genealogical guidebook & atlas of Denmark
• Danish American Heritage Society Newsletter
• Danish Church Records, Montcalm County: Vital records recorded by Rev. Ole Amble
• Danish English Dictionary
• The Bridge: Journal of the Danish American Heritage Society

LAND ATLAS AND PLAT BOOKS

• Plat books starting as early as 1897
• Montcalm County Tract Book and Index, 1835-1875
• Many area directories
• Farm Journal Rural Directory, 1917-1922 (includes those living in Greenville and Montcalm County)

MISCELLANOUS

• Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, 1870-1909, census and genealogy for the Ottawa and Ojibwa
• Naturalization Records for Oakland county, MI
• Historical Homes in Stanton
• Headlight Flashes, magazine pub in May of 1896, contains bios and pictures of some of Greenville’s leading citizens.