HOW-TO GUIDES FOR GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
We have a large collection of general research guides to get
you started in your genealogical research. In the circulating
collection, look in the 929 (for both books and videos) and the
Q929 (oversize) sections. Some examples are:
929.1072 CAR Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo. A
Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Immigrant and Ethnic Ancestors:
How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage. 2000.
929.5072 CARMACK Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo.
Your Guide to Cemetery Research. 2002.
Q929.1 CRA Crawford-Oppenheimer, Christine.
Long-Distance Genealogy: Researching Your Family History from
Home. 2000.
929.1 CRO Croom, Emily Ann.
Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy. 3rd
ed. 1995.
929.1072 FAMILY Family Tree Guide Book: Everything You Need to Know to Trace your Genealogy Across North America. 2002.
929.1 GRE Greenwood, Val D. The
Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. 3rd ed.
2000. (Also in Reference Department.)
Q 929.1072 HON Hone, E. Wade. Land
and Property Research in the United States. 1997.
929.1 KEM Kemphorne, Charley. For All Time: A
Complete Guide to Writing YourFamily History. 1996.
929.1072 MEL Melnyk, Marcia Yannizze.
The Weekend Genealogist: Timesaving Techniques for Effective
Research. 2000.
929.1 MIL Mills, Elizabeth Shown.
Evidence! Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian.
1997.
929.1 PRI Meyerink, Kory L.,
ed. Printed Sources: A Guide to Published Genealogical
Records. 1998. (Also in Reference Department.)
Q 929.1072 PFE Pfeiffer, Laura Szucs.
Hidden Sources: Family History in Unlikely Places. 2000.
929.1 SZU Szucs, Loretto Dennis. The Source:
A Guidebook of American Genealogy. 2nd ed.
1997. (Also in Reference Department.)
REFERENCE SOURCES
R 387.2432 ANU Anuta, Michael J. Ships of Our Ancestors.
2002.
R 929.1025 BEN Bentley, Elizabeth Petty.
Genealogist's Address Book. 4th ed.
1998.
R 304.873 BROWNSTONE Brownstone, David, and Irene
M. Franck. Facts About American Immigration. 2001.
R 016.973 FIL A Bibliography of
American County Histories. 1985.
R 929.1072 HIN Hinckley, Kathleen W.
Locating Lost Family Members & Friends: Modern Genealogical
Research Techniques for Locating the People of Your Past and Present.
1999.
R 929.1072 KEM Kemp, Thomas Jay.
The American Census Handbook. 2001.
R 929.1072 KEM Kemp, Thomas Jay.
The Genealogist's Virtual Library: Full-Text Books on the
World Wide Web. 2000.
R 929.1072 KEM Kemp, Thomas Jay.
International Vital Records Handbook. 4th
ed. 2000.
R 929.1 MOO Moore, Dahrl Elizabeth.
The Librarian's Genealogy Notebook: A Guide toResources.
1998.
R352.357 SOU The Sourcebook to Public
Record Information: The Comprehensive Guide to County, State and
Federal Public Record Sources. 2001.
REF 929.103 THO (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY) Thode,
Ernest. German-English Genealogical Dictionary. 1992.
See our other resources (including passenger list indexes) in
the Harry Allen Room.
SOURCES FOR ETHNIC RESEARCH
R 305.8 ENC American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of
a Nation. 1997.
929.2089 BAX Baxter, Angus. In Search of Your German
Roots: A Complete Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors in the
Germanic Areas of Europe. 2001.
977.4 CAN Cantor, Judith Levin. Jews
in Michigan. 2001.
977.4 DUL DuLong, John P. French Canadians in
Michigan. 2001.
R 305.8009 GAL Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America.
2000.
R 301.45 H Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic
Groups. 1980.
929.1089 HOW Howell, Barbara Thompson.
How to Trace Your African-American Roots: Discovering
Your Unique History. 1999.
977.4 HUN Huntington, Gertrude Enders.
Amish in Michigan. 2001.
977.4 MAG Magnaghi, Russell M.
Italians in Michigan. 2001.
R 016.9293 RYA Ryan, James G.
Irish Records: Sources for Family and Local History. 1997.
929.1089 SMITH Smith, Franklin Carter. A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestor: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage. 2003.
977.4 TRI Trix, Frances. The
Albanians in Michigan. 2001.
977.4 WAL Walker. Lewis, et al. African
Americans in Michigan. 2001.
See also the book above by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack.
Books on other ethnic groups are also available. Ask a librarian
for assistance.
PERIODICALS
Acorns to Oaks. (Oakland County, Michigan, Genealogical
Society Quarterly.) (Harry Allen Room - does not circulate.)
1978-present. There is an index to each volume (year) as well
as a cumulative index to the first ten volumes.
Ancestry. 2000-present.
Birmingham Heritage. 1979-present (Publication of the Birmingham Historical Society and Museum.)
Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine.
(Harry Allen Room - does not circulate. Includes indexes.)
1937-present.
Everton's Family History. Current 4 years.
Family Trails. (Harry Allen Room - does
not circulate.) 1967-1982. (Incomplete.)
VIDEOS
VIDEO 977.438 BIR The Birmingham Story Yesterday and
Today. (Variant title: Birmingham Not So Long Ago). 1996.
VIDEO 929.1 DO Do Your Family Tree. 1991.
VIDEO 929.1 DO Do Your Family Tree Part
II: Advanced Research. 1992.
VIDEO 929.1 GEN Genealogist's Video
Resource Guide. 1994.
Part One:
Home Sources, FamilySearch, Published Histories.
Part Two:
Census and Probate Records.
Part Three:
Land, Vital and Military Records.
VIDEO 929.1 GEN Genealogy Treasures: Discovering
the Library of Michigan's Abrams Foundation Historical Collection.
2000.
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. 1926-1993 (incomplete);
1997,1998, 2000.
HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS
Baldwin High School 1919-1932, 1935-1951.
Barnum Junior High School 1958-1960, 1962-1973.
Birmingham High School 1952-1954, 1956-1959.
Brother Rice High School 1969-1993
Detroit County Day School 1954-1988 (incomplete).
Groves High School 1960-1980, 1982-2002.
Marian High School 1965-1994 (incomplete).
Seaholm High School 1960-2002.
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].
ATLASES
R 911.774 ATL (ALLEN ROOM - MICHIGAN HISTORY)
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: Michigan. 1997.
R 917.74 ATL (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR'S OFFICE)
Atlas of Michigan. 1873.
R 912 B (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR'S OFFICE)
Atlas of Oakland County, Michigan. 1872.
R 911 LOR Historical Atlas of the United
States. 1944.
R 912 K (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR'S OFFICE)
Illustrated Atlas of Oakland County, Michigan. 1896.
R 973.04 SET The Settling of North America:
The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the
Ice Age to the Present. 1995.
R 912 OAK (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR'S OFFICE)
Standard Atlas of Oakland County, Michigan. 1908.
R 912 TOW Township Atlas of the United States.
1987.
DETROIT AND MICHIGAN HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
R 977.4 DOD (ALLEN ROOM - MICHIGAN HISTORY)
Dodge, Roy L. Michigan Ghost Towns. Volume I. 1970.
R 026.774 GUI (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Michigan Genealogical Council. Guide to the Michigan Genealogical
& Historical Collections at the Library of Michigan and the
State Archives of Michigan. 1996.
R 929.1 MCG (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
McGinnis, Carol. Michigan Genealogy Sources and Resources.
1987.
R 977.4 LIB (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Michigan Cemetery Atlas. 1991.
R 977.4 LIB (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Michigan Cemetery Source Book. 1994.
R 929 MIC (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Michigan Censuses 1710-1830 Under the French, British and Americans.
1982.
R 317.7438 STA (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Michigan State Census for Oakland County. 1845.
R 929.42 MIC (ALLEN ROOM - GENEALOGY)
Michigan Surname Index. Volumes I and II. 1989.
R 977.4 WAK (ALLEN ROOM MICHIGAN HISTORY)
Ghost Towns of Michigan. 1994. See our other resources
in the Harry Allen Room.
GENEALOGY ON THE WEB
R 929.1028 CLI Clifford, Karen. The Complete
Beginner's Guide to Genealogy, the Internet, and Your Genealogy
Computer Program. 2001.
929.1 CRO Crowe, Elizabeth Powell. Genealogy
Online: Researching Your Roots. 1998.
929.1028 HEL Helm, Matthew. Genealogy Online
for Dummies. 1999.
R 929.1 HOW (ALLEN ROOM GENEALOGY)
Howells, C. Netting Your Ancestors: Genealogical Research
on the Internet. 1997.
R 929.1028 KEM Kemp, Thomas Jay. Virtual Roots:
A Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web.
1997.
GENEALOGY CD-ROMS
CD-ROM 929.1 FAM Family Tree Maker [interactive
multimedia]. 1998.
CD-ROM 929.1 GEN Generations [interactive
multimedia]. 1998.
ANCESTRYPLUS SUBSCRIPTION DATABASE
This subscription service accessed through the Baldwin home page.
Click on ONLINE DATABASES; click DATABASES by SUBJECT; click on
GENEALOGY. Click on ANCESTRYPUS. It offers 274 million records
in 1,758 databases. (Note: This service is not available
through dial-in access.) It allows access to census
indexes, PERSI (the Periodical Source Index), DAR lineage books,
UMI obituaries 1990-present, the unabridged American Genealogical-Biographical
Index (AGBI), and many others. It now also offers "Images
Online" , which allows you to view scanned images of original
census documents online. (Not all census years are complete at
this time.) Please ask a librarian for assistance.
RESEARCHING THE HISTORY OF YOUR HOUSE
307.336 HOU Howe, Barbara J., et al. Houses and Homes: Exploring Their History. 1997.
728.028 LIG Light, Sally. House Histories: A Guide to tracing
the Genealogy of Your home. 1989.
907.2 GREEN Green, Betsy. Discovering the History
of Your house and Neighborhood. 2002.
HERITAGEQUEST ONLINE
This subscription service accessed through the Baldwin home
page. Click on ONLINE DATABASES; click on DATABASES by SUBJECT;
click on GENEALOGY. Click on HeritageQuestOnline. It has over
25,000 family and local histories as well as the entire US census.
In the family and local history books, every word is searchable,
and every page of each book has been digitized and can be downloaded
and printed. Other resources include Freedman's Bank Records (coming
in late 2002).
ADDITIONAL GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS AND RESOURCES
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Family History Library
425 N. Woodward
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Phone (248) 647-5671
Burton Historical Collection
Detroit Public Library
5201 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48202-4093
Phone (313) 833-1480
www.detroit.lib.mi.us/burton
Library of Michigan
717 W. Allegan Street
Lansing, MI 48915
Phone (517) 373-1300
www.michigan.gov/hal
Select "Resources for Genealogists."
Oakland County Pioneer and Historical Society
405 Oakland Ave.
Pontiac, MI 48342
Phone (248) 338-6732
www.wwnet.net/~ocphs/library.html
An excellent resource if your ancestors were in Oakland County
in the 1800s.
Kresge Library
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
Phone: 248-370-2100
www.oakland.edu
Has tax assessment rolls for Oakland County for 1841-1871 on microfilm.
Pontiac Public Library
60 East Pike Street
Pontiac, MI 48342
Phone (248) 857-7667
www.pontiac.lib.mi.us
Has the Oakland Press on microfilm 1836-present
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives of Temple Beth El
7400 Telegraph Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301
Phone (248) 851-1100 Ext. 3137
www.tbeonline.org/Rfranklinarchive1
(Contains congregational and membership records back to 1850,
marriage records 1867-present, and complete burial records for
Woodmere, Lafayette and beth El Memorial park cemeteries).
Oakland County Genealogical Society
www.rhpl.org/OCGS
Meets the first
Tuesday of the month (October-June) from 6 to 9 P.M. at Baldwin
Public Library. Call Baldwin Library for the name of the current
contact person.
Birmingham Historical Society
P.O. Box 223A
Birmingham, MI 48012
www.geocities.com/bhamhist
Birmingham Historical Museum
556 West Maple
Birmingham, MI 48012
Phone (248) 642-2817
www.ci.birmingham.mi.us/Civic/Museum/home.htm
OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN, GENEALOGY ON THE WEB (part of
the USGENWEB project)
miprofgenie.com/genweb/mioakland
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