LOCAL HISTORY RESOURCES (BIRMINGHAM AND OAKLAND COUNTY)

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BIRMINGHAM - various church records (on microfilm) from 1834-2000.  (Includes membership rolls, baptisms, marriages, deaths, session minutes, Ladies Church Society Ledgers, minutes of women's groups, and miscellaneous church records. Not all years covered.)

ORAL HISTORY (on cassette tapes) - Interviews conducted in the early 1970s with 49 residents who shared their recollections. Copies are available to be checked out.

BIRMINGHAM-BLOOMFIELD ECCENTRIC (LOCAL NEWSPAPER).

On microfilm 1878-present.  Indexed 1878-2000.   (Index for 2000-present in progress.) Includes both subject and biographical indexes (including obituaries).

BIRMINGHAM CITY DIRECTORIES.
1926-1927, 1929-1930, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1954, 1956-1957, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965-1967, 1969-1980, 1982-1986, 1988-1989, 1991-1993, 1997, 1998, 2000

HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS
Baldwin High School Baldwinian
1919-1932.

Barnum Junior High Mapletonian
1958-1960, 1962-1973.

Birmingham High School Piper
1952-1954, 1956-1959.

Brother Rice Quest
1970-1975, 1978, 1982-1983, 1985 -1987, 1990 -1997

Detroit County Day Blue and Gold.
1954, 1964-1969, 1971-1974, 1982, 1988.

Marian Way
1965, 1968-1970, 1972-1973, 1976, 1978-1979, 1981-1994, 1996.

Groves Talon
1960-2004.

Baldwin High School Piper
1935-1951.

Seaholm Piper
1960-1980, 1982-2004.

NORTH WOODWARD AVENUE PHONE BOOKS - WHITE PAGES
1988-89,1991-92,1992-93, 1993-94, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004

NORTH WOODWARD AVENUE PHONE BOOKS - YELLOW PAGES
1987-88,1988-89,1989-90, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004.

NORTH WOODWARD AVENUE PHONE BOOKS - COMBINED WHITE & YELLOW PAGES
1974-75, 1976-1987.

SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS FOR CITY OF BIRMINGHAM On microfilm. August 1893, April 1900, August 1910, December 1915, January 1921, July 1926, March 1931.

CENSUS Federal Census of Oakland County, Michigan. On microfilm for the censuses of 1820-1920.  (Some reels contain additional counties.)  Census Index for Michigan for federal censuses of 1850 and 1870. (Index is in paper.)

Birmingham War Service Record World War II.  (Bound volume containing rolls of Birmingham servicemen and women during World War II.)

R 977.438 OUR (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Beardsley, Ethel, et al. Our Birmingham. 

R 977.438 BIR (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Birmingham Estates Garden Club (Mich.).  From Seymour Adams' "Shadyside Farm" - circa 1823- to Birmingham Estates Subdivision Volume II: A Historical Research Project of the Birmingham Estates Garden Club.  1993. [Contains photographs of homes in the Birmingham Estates Subdivision, and includes the names of current and former residents.]

R 728 BIR (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Birmingham Historic District and Design Review Commission. Wallace Frost: His Architecture in Birmingham, Michigan. 1992.

R 393.1 GRE (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Birmingham Historical Society.  Greenwood Cemetery Its Inscriptions and Burials. 1984.

R 393.1 IND (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Birmingham Historical Society.  Index to the Greenwood Cemetery Burials. 1984.

VIDEO 728 WAL   Brooks, Bruce.  Wallace Frost Homes [videorecording]. 1992.

R 929.3 DAU (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Daughters of the American Revolution. Piety Hill Chapter. Bible and Genealogical Records.  [Includes index.] 1987.

R 920 NAV (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)  
Daughters of the American Revolution. Piety Hill Chapter. Records of Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Michigan.

R 977.438 D (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR'S OFFICE)
Durant, Samuel W.  History of Oakland County, Michigan. 1877.

R 977.438 D (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR'S OFFICE)
Durant, Samuel W.  Index to History of Oakland County, Michigan.

R 977.438 G (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Gomberg, Lenore.  An Architectural Survey of Birmingham, Michigan: Including also Bloomfield Village, Franklin Village and Bloomfield Hills.

R 917.7438 HIS (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
An Historic District for Downtown Birmingham. 1983.

R 977.438 MCM (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
McMechan, Jervis Bell. Book of Birmingham. 1976.

R 920 NAV (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Navin, Thomas R., Mrs. Records of Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Michigan. 1945.

R 929.5 MIC (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Oakland County Genealogical Society.  Birmingham and West Bloomfield Cemeteries. 1990.

R 977.438 FIR (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Oakland County Genealogical Society.  First Land Owners of Oakland County, Michigan. 1981.

R 929.3774 OAKLAND (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Oakland County Genealogical Society.  Oakland County, Michigan Divorce Records for Oakland County, 1839-1865. 2002.

R 977.438 S   (ALLEN ROOM - BIRMINGHAM HISTORY)
Saltzer, Minnie Hunt.   Birmingham Before Today.  [Column about Birmingham History, including names of residents, that appeared in the Birmingham Eccentric March 7, 1935 to August 19, 1937.  Includes an index.]

R 977.438 S   Seeley, Thaddeus D.  History of Oakland County, Michigan.   1912

R 920 POR   (ALLEN ROOM - MICHIGAN HISTORY)
Portrait Biographical Album of Oakland County, Michigan. 1891.

R 929.2 SCH Victor Nelson Denison and Sarah Erving Denison: Ancestors and Descendants. [Residents of Birmingham].