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Michigan Vital Records

Birth and death records

Marriage and divorce records

  • Available through the county’s district court (click here for the Calhoun County District Court)
  • State of Michigan Vital Records Office
  • The Marshall District Library has most marriage records from 1836-1915, available on microfilm

Probate records

  • The clerks of the county’s probate courts (click here for the Calhoun County probate court)
  • The Helen Warner branch of the Willard library has some Calhoun County probate records

Naturalization records

  • The county clerk’s office (click here for the Calhoun County Clerk and Register of Deeds)

Land records

  • The county’s Registrar (or Register) of Deeds (click here for the Calhoun County Clerk and Register of Deeds)
  • Calhoun County Internet Land Records Search
  • Some Calhoun County plat books, maps, and atlases are available at the Marshall District Library
  • Some plat maps are available through Michiganology

Census records

Obituaries

  • The Albion Public Library has an extensive collection of local clipped obituaries, and a searchable obituary database.
  • The Marshall District Library has print copies of the Marshall Advisor (Review/Chronicle) going back to 2003, and microfilm newspaper collections from 1838 to 2009. All newspapers are now digitized and searchable here.

Military Records

  • The Marshall District Library has some Michigan military records and soldier indexes, in print
  • Ancestry, Library Edition (available on-site only)
  • Some Civil War records available through Michiganology
  • Fold3 (fee-based site)
  • Michiganology (Civil War, Archives of Michigan and Michigan Historical Center)

Cemetery Records

  • The Marshall District Library has records for most Marshall-area cemeteries
  • Find A Grave