JACKSON COUNTY MICHIGAN    

ANNOUNCEMENT:

JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

IS SPONSORING

A RESEARCH TRIP TO THE ALLEN COUNTY
(FT. WAYNE) PUBLIC LIBRARY

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009

Non-members are welcome to join us.

click below for detailed information
and to sign up

JACKSON COUNTY GENEALOGICAL NOVEMBER MEETING

November 3, 2009
6:30 PM
(Dinner before meetings are discontinued.
Meeting will start at 6:30)

MICHIGAN DEATH RECORDS PROJECT
Kris Rzepczynski
from Library of Michigan
 

Want to join JCGS?
Click below for an application form.

Crisis Facing the Library of Michigan
 

UP-DATED INFORMATION PERTAINING TO
THE LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN
can be found at the
Library of Michigan Genealogical Council
click below

 

Photos from Hands Around the Library
August 5, 2009
MICHIGAN STATE CAPITOL AND LIBRARY OF MICHIGAN

MORE PHOTOS AND INFORMATION TO WRITE GOVERNOR GRANHOLM AND YOUR LEGISLATORS

Governor Granholm's executive order of July 13, 2009, will close the Library of Michigan and will allow disbursal of the collection of the Library of Michigan.  The above link will provide more information on this serious situation facing the Library of Michigan

JACKSON COUNTY  GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
LIBRARY

ADDRESS
211 W. Ganson Street
Suite 170
Jackson, MI  49201

PHONE
1-517-768-9266

HOURS

TUESDAY
1 to 5 pm

THURSDAY
1 to 5 pm

SATURDAY
10 am to 4 pm

EMAIL
jcgs.library@yahoo.com

RESEARCH REQUEST

The JCGS Library is staffed by volunteers and always eager to help you with your genealogical requests.

For further information regarding requests please go the the SOCIETY LIBRARY page.

Email or mail (above address) your request to us today.

Click here for Society Library Page  

JACKSON COUNTY MICHIGAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

The Jackson County Genealogical Society, an organization formed and dedicated to the encouragement  and enhancement of genealogy, was formed in 1977.

Society objectives are:

• Preserve and make available for genealogical research the records of the Jackson County Michigan area.
• Encourage and assist the study of family history, promote the exchange of genealogical knowledge, and encourage the central deposit of genealogical records.
• Cooperate with other genealogical societies and assist Jackson County area libraries in collecting genealogical records, expanding their collections of published genealogical records, and publishing genealogical material.
• Publish material of genealogical interest and use to Society members.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

During the fall of 2008 members of the Austin Blair Camp No. 7 Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War replaced the headstones of eight veterans of the Civil War buried at Jefferson Cemetery.   A dedication ceremony attended by more than 100 people many descendents of the Veterans was held on Saturday, May 30, 2009, at the Cemetery in Columbia Township, Jackson County Michigan. Click to see pictures and information.

©  The Jackson County Genealogical Society, 2009
211 West Ganson
Jackson, MI  49201

webmaster:  JCGS Library Staff
Up-dated October 12, 2009