Bay County, Michigan State and US Links

The Poorhouse Story - Information about Poorhouses in Bay County and the rest of Michigan.

Brief History of Bay City

1895 USA Atlas Searchable state and county maps.

Place Names The USGS place name index.

Michigan GenWeb Master County Index. Links to all the sites within Michigan of the MIGenWeb. Includes links to the Census Project, Michigan in the Civil War and the Tombstone Project.

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites- Michigan. Links to numerous sites.

The Genealogy Homepage. Sponsored by The Family Tree Maker Online.

The American Immigrant Wall of Honor, Search the Wall. This site allows you to check a name to see if it is on the wall at Ellis Island.

Find The County For Any City In The United States. Enter the name of a city, for instance, Bay City, and receive back a listing of all the place names called Bay City in the US.

Bureau of Land Management: Eastern States, General Land Office.  Searchable land patents in Michigan and other states.

Adoption: A Website of Links & Tips -  for researchers that have been touched by adoption.

Hamburg Passenger Lists - Port of Hamburg transcriptions of passenger lists.  This port was one of the major immigration ports.  The list is an ongoing project.


Nationwide Resources for Research

Library of Congress

Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Library

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

Newberry Library (Chicago, Illinois)

New York Public Library

Libweb - Library Servers via the WWW

Family Search - The IGI (North America, Great Britain and Finland) and the Ancestral File of the Mormon Church Online

Ancestry.Com - rotating free database, current SSDI a continuing free database.

If you have any other Bay County Genealogy or History related links to add, drop Kay L. Mason a note with "BAY COUNTY LINKS" as the subject line and they will be added immediately!



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