VOLUNTEER LOOKUPS:

Mic Andrus, MicAndrus@prodigy.net ,will do lookups from the following:

Note: be sure to indicate KALAMAZOO COUNTY in your email to Mic Andrus because he does LOOKUPS for other counties.

• Michigan Heritage War of 1812 Commemorative Issue:    published by The Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society 1962: Lists names of the soldiers and widows who died in Michigan, birth and death year, county, cemetery or place of residence. Also lists the names of the ships and the sailors who died or were wounded on those ships.
  
• 1915 Kalamazoo Telephone Directory: Lists name, place of residence or business, telephone number. Some business advertisements. Other townships include: Alamo, Fulton, Galesburg, Richland, Schoolcraft, Scotts, and Vicksburg.
  
 
• 1919-1923 The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Kalamazoo County: Lists name, spouse, children (living at home), occupation, amount of acreage (owned or leased), number of livestock, township. Buyers' Guide for businesses. Townships include: Alamo, Brady, Charleston, Climax, Comstock, Cooper, Kalamazoo, Oshtemo, Pavilion, Portage, Prairie Ronde, Richland, Ross, Schoolcraft, Texas, and Wakeshma.
  
  
• 1920 Kalamazoo Telephone Directory:
  Lists name, place of residence or business, telephone number. Some business advertisements. Other townships include: Alamo, Athens (Calhoun County), Augusta, Battle Creek (Calhoun County), Bellevue (Eaton County), Ceresco (Calhoun County), Climax, Fulton, Galesburg, Olivet (Eaton County), Richland, Schoolcraft, Scotts, and Vicksburg.
  
• 1931 & 1935 Kalamazoo Telephone Directories:
  Lists name, place of residence or business, telephone number. Classifieds. Other townships include: Galesburg, Richland, Scotts, and Vicksburg.
  
• 1942, 43, 47, 48, 53-54, 55, 57, 58, 59, 62, 66 Kalamazoo City Directories: Lists name, spouse, occupation & where employed, address. Classified Buyers' Guide (similar to the Yellow Pages) and Classified Business Directory. Has advertisements for Kalamazoo County businesses. 
         
 
• 1944 & 1946 Kalamazoo Telephone Directories: Lists name, place of residence or business, telephone number. Classified Buyers' Guide (similar to the Yellow Pages). Has advertisements for Kalamazoo County businesses. Other townships include: Galesburg, Richland, Scotts, and Vicksburg.       

 

• 1883 Graduating exercises for the Michigan Female Seminary: Some names from other towns as well as Kalamazoo.


• 1909 Graduating Exercises for the 8th grade classes of Woodward Ave., Frank St., and Vine St. Schools.


• 1913 Graduating exercises for Kalamazoo High School.


• 1913-14 Kalamazoo Central High School male students who were members of "The Gavel Club".


• 1922 Central High School Athletic Association. List of male athletes.


• 1922 Central High School Football Squad.


• 1923-24 Kalamazoo Board of Education. List of all employees of the Kalamazoo schools and libraries.


• 1924 Central High School Baseball and Football Squads.


• 1925 Central High School Champions, Southwestern, Michigan - Basketball Yearbook.


• 1923, 1929, 1953, 1954 Kalamazoo Central High School yearbooks called "The Delphian".


• 1953 and 1954 Kalamazoo State High School yearbooks called "The Highlander".


• History of the Saint Luke's Boy Choir 1885-1985, by James R. Powell, Jr., Ph.D. Depicting the 100th anniversary of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church and its well known Choristers. Some photos and biographies of clergymen, music directors, students, etc. Many names.

Sherlene Belden, sbelden@accn.org, will do lookups from:

HONOR ROLL OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY MICHIGAN U.S.A. 1917 1918 1919, by: Mrs. O. H. Clark, publisher. Copyright 1920:  An Honor Roll containing a pictorial record of the war service of the men and women of Kalamazoo County, 1917-1918-1919. This also includes information and pictures on those who helped with the war effort at the local level such as Red Cross volunteers.

Stephanie Briggs, ts_briggs@yahoo.com ,will do lookups from the following:

• SHERMAN LAKE-FROM THE BEGINNING, by Charlotte M. Russell;
 
• RICHLAND FROM IT'S PRAIRIE BEGINNINGS, by Eugene McKean, Marjorie Harrison, and Carol Mc Bride;


• KALAMAZOO NINETEENTH CENTURY HOMES IN A MIDWESTERN VILLAGE, by Peter Schmitt and Balthazar Korab.


• SESQUICENTENNIAL1835-1985 Augusta, MI.

Kimberly Coleman, klcoleman@earthlink.net ,will do lookups from the following:

• City Directories for 1955 and 1970.
  

• PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF KALAMAZOO, ALLEGAN, AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES, 1892, It includes many bios and some illustrations;
  

•  Index to the 13th MI Infantry in Civil War




•  Annual of Kalamazoo College 1889-1890
  

 

•  Balch Family Genealogy by Galusha Balch, 1897.

Kimberly Coleman, klcoleman@earthlink.net ,will do lookups from the following:

• City Directories for 1955 and 1970.
  

• PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF KALAMAZOO, ALLEGAN, AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES, 1892, It includes many bios and some illustrations;
  

•  Index to the 13th MI Infantry in Civil War




•  Annual of Kalamazoo College 1889-1890
  

 

•  Balch Family Genealogy by Galusha Balch, 1897.

Joe Ferrara, ferrara@btc-bci.com  , will do lookups for the following:

(on my home computer I have Kal Co Clerk's office:)
Birth Index: 1867-1975
Birth Records: 1867-1903
Marriage Index: 1831-1975
Marriage Records: 1831-1907
Death Records starting 1867: Index to 1975 and Records to 1901
Foreign Deaths and Marriages

Catholic Burials (Mt. Olivet to 1936, Cath Riverside inscriptions)
County Transcriptions to 1980
City Cemeteries-100,000

Kal Public Lib 3x5" Vital Records File(like 1850s to 1940s, lots of church records) over 30,000.

Directories City: 1860-1, 67-8, '73, '76, '83, '87, 1895, 1905 and 1915.
County: 1873, '83, '87, 1895, and 1905.

U.S. Census 1860-1880 [Not Proof Read]

Augustinian Newspaper[1893-1897]--will increase.

Family trees: Ernest's mostly Dutch 100,000, Mine mostly Catholics 10,000.

Working on Kal Central HS  yearbook at present;  have photos 1908,
1915-1960 (with a few missing years--will increase).

Margaret Snyder, creekside2us@yahoo.com ,will do lookups from the following:

PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF KALAMAZOO, ALLEGAN, AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES, 1892, It includes many bios and some illustrations;

WATER OVER THE DAM, Published by the Vicksburg Historical Society in 1972 - it is a history of Vicksburg that includes many SURNAMES;

GLIMPSES OF A NINETEENTH CENTURY VILLAGE, by Mable Hawkins - It covers Vicksburg's history and has many references to Vicksburg SURNAMES.

In addition she will assist with requests for information about collections from the VICKSBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM. It also includes information about Scotts and Fulton.

In addition she will do lookups from the 1974 Tombstone Transcription Project for Kalamazoo County Cemeteries.  1974 Tombstone Transcription Project for Kalamazoo County Cemeteries. 

Calee Leversee, CALEEL@aol.com ,will do lookups from:

 Michigan Land Records - 1790 to 1907.

Mila Wasicek,  mila@pacwestservices.com ,will do lookups from the following:

Records of Service for the 8th Michigan Infantry. It lists all of the Civil War soldiers that were in the 8th Michigan Infantry and their service records.  You can first check an online index to the 8th Michigan (from Don Harvey's Michigan in the Civil War Website), before you contact Mila.  Please note this is the 8th Michigan only.

Ed Schaadt - has been active in researching the Richland/Gull Lake area for many years now and has compiled a sizable collection of materials on the people who lived in this area of the county.  He is willing to do lookups from this material.  Please confine your requests to one or two names. 

email: edschaadt@richlandlibrary.org

Diane Oslund - Professional Genealogy Research in Southern Michigan and Ontario -
website:  http://dianesgenealogy.com 

email:    research@dianesgenealogy.com