STATE RECORDS |
Interested in researching your roots? Stop by the J.M. Longyear Research Library located in the upper level of the Marquette County History Museum building at 213 N. Front Street in Marquette, Michigan. The library houses a general collection of genealogical reference books, as well as some published family histories. The library also holds plat books, atlases, maps, township, school and business records, and an extensive photograph file. The library also offers the following materials to help assist your genealogical research: BIOGRAPHICAL CARD FILE: Unique biographical material on over 60,000 area residents including birth, marriage, and death information as recorded in early to current newspapers. PAMPHLET FILE: Recorded historical information through diaries, manuscripts, interviews, and newspaper articles. Includes material on communities, ethnic groups, historic homes, churches, businesses, cemeteries, and mines for Marquette County and the Upper Peninsula. Extensive biographical material on U.P. families. MARRIAGE RECORDS: Marquette County marriages from 1850-1866. DEATH RECORDS: Registrar's permits for burials and removals in the city of Marquette from 1889-1932 (listing is missing some data). CEMETERY RECORDS: Listings of burials at Marquette's Catholic and Protestant cemeteries through sexton records. Various other area cemetery records available. THE INSPECTOR OF MINES REPORTS: Reports and lists of deaths and mining accidents in Marquette County, 1889 to the present. CENTENNIAL BOOKS: Historic information of Upper Peninsula communities. CHASE INTERVIEWS: Interviews of over 350 Marquette County pioneer residents. CHURCH RECORDS: Marquette Religious Survey of all Marquette Catholic and Protestant church members, 1935. Marriage records from St. John's Catholic Church, Marquette for 1872-1899. Marriage and burial records for St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Marquette for 1867-1875. CITY DIRECTORIES: Directories from 1873 to present day for the cities of Marquette, Ishpeming, Negaunee and other Marquette County communities. MARQUETTE COUNTY TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES: Alphabetical listing by communities, from 1914 to present. MILITARY RECORDS: Scrapbooks, newspaper files, photographs of G.A.R., WWI and WWII servicemen and women, Marquette County. SCHOOL YEARBOOKS: Early yearbooks from various Marquette County schools. SCRAPBOOKS: Large collection of scrapbooks containing biographical and historical information and photographs. NEWSPAPERS: Early to current Mining Journal issues on microfilm. Partial index available. |
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