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Subject: Re: [MIWAYNE] Wayne county obits needed, will pay expenses.
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:51:58 -0000


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The Burton Historical Collection of the main Detroit Public Library has a list of researchers on their website.

http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/burton/researcher.htm

The only one whose work I know is quite sick and not doing research at this time. I don't know anything about the other researchers but someone recommended Ms Karan Zucal whose name is on the list.

If you have a date of death and the person died in Detroit or the Metro Detroit area, there are several ways to get a death notice depending on the time frame.

The main newspapers are The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press. Both of which are on microfilm at the main Detroit library on Woodward Avenue. There is also the Detroit Times upto about 1960-1961. For $15.00 each, prepaid, the staff will look for a death notice/obituary or if you live in the area, you can look yourself.

Detroit Public Library
General Information
5201 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48202

http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/

DEARBORN: Henry Ford Centennial Library (313) 943-2330, 16301 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, Mi 48126. http://www.dearborn.lib.mi.us/default.htm

Has the Detroit News from 1955 and the Detroit Free Press from 1970. To request a lookup for death notice/obituary, send SASE to above address Attention: Adult Services. They will not respond without the self-addressed stamped envelope. This is their policy as of July 2006. They also have the Dearborn Newspapers


The microfilms are also available for Inter Library Loan (ILL). Talk to your local reference librarian-must have a microfilm reader. See following for more information:

http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/ill/lending.htm

The Library of Michigan in Lansing also has the newspapers but you must research yourself.

The Livonia Civic Center Library has the Detroit News only on microfilm from 1980 to 200?-not sure of the year. I think I was told that they keep the paper copies for 6 months. You can email the library and ask if they will do a lookup and make copies. I would ask how much they charge.

http://livonia.lib.mi.us/


For more current death notices (think it starts about August 2001), go to:

www.detnews.com

Find obits/death notices under the Metro section and following the instructions. Sometimes the site is not accessible. In addition, some funeral homes do not allow death notices that appeared in the newspaper to appear online.

Other options would be to contact local genealogy societies such as the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research:

http://www.dsgr.org/

The above society generally meets in the main Detroit Public Library.

Early deaths starting in 1867 were microfilmed by the Mormon Church. If you go to their website and do a locality search for Wayne County, Michigan, you can see what is available.

www.familysearch.org

There is something called the GENDIS (Genealogical Death Indexing System) online but it only covers 1867-1885 and there are errors. The Mormon church is supposed to be transcribing the death records through 1897 but I haven't heard that they have finished. The GENDIS is available at the Michigan Vital Records website.

As far as I know, people are not allowed to look at death records held by the county, the city or the State of Michigan. And you have to pay anywhere from about $17.00 to $26.00 depending on the agency.

http://michigan.gov/mdch

http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132--14297--,00.html

http://www.deathindexes.com/michigan/wayne.html

http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17449_18635-151703--,00.html

One of the above websites has information about the death certificates that were given to the State Library of Michigan. If you are looking for that time period, I would try contacting the Ingham County Gen. Soc. to see if they have researchers who would look for you. The library of Michigan also has the Detroit Newspapers on microfilm.

http://www.ingcogenesoc.org/

Some of the area cities have death certificates which may cost a little less-Dearborn, Livonia and Allen Park are three that I know of. Both Dearborn and Livonia have hospitals which may account for their having death records. Allen Park was the home to the Veteran's Hospital for quite a few years and if the person died there, you can get a certificate from the City of Allen Park.



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