a Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 623
Adrian, Michigan 49221
The Lenawee County Family Researchers exist to foster interest in historical and genealogical information related to Lenawee County, Michigan by preserving the County's historical and genealogical records and providing support to researchers everywhere seeking that information.
Action Steps or Goals to support the Mission:
Responding to typical or electronic queries that request County historical and/or genealogical information.
Researching, indexing, transcribing and publishing Lenawee County's historical and genealogical records.
Sponsoring trips to regional libraries.
Encouraging members and others to submit items of historical and genealogical interest to the organization's newsletter.
THANK YOU TO ALL OFFICERS PAST AND PRESENT WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED AND SERVED!!!
President - Paula Osburn
Vice President - Elaine Rozo Bueno
Secretary- Julia Klink
Treasurer - Corresponding Secretary- Michele Blain-Olson
P. O. Box 623
Adrian, MI 49221
MGC Delegate - Virginia Tervol
Sunshine Chairperson - Michele Blain-Olson
Librarians - Keith and Gail Derbyshire
Newsletter Editor - Linda Melnik
Book Sales - Susan Sitterly
Please note, Susan does NOT do Lenawee research.
Meetings are held on the Second Tuesday of each Month at 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Open Forum at 6:30 pm
This added half hour before the regular meeting will be spent answering questions, attempting to assist researchers find a new way to break down that "brick wall". All are welcome and all are encouraged to share experiences and ideas on how to solve research problems.
Location:
Vo Tech Center
2345 N. Adrian Hwy
Adrian MI
NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond our control and beyond the control of the Vo Tech Center, there are times when we have no access to a room in this facility. Thankfully this in a rare occurance, but it does happen. We will make annoucments in the local papers if there is enough advance notice, or we will put an annoucement on the local radio stations in the case of a short notice. Bad weather cancellations will be made via the local radio stations. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.
See our programs and speakers here.
Individual... $10.00 per year
Family....... $12.00 per year
Individual/Family with hard copy newsletter fee... $15.00 per year.
We are now emailing our newsletters in PDF format to save funds. We had requests for a special fee for those members who have email, but do not want to receive their newsletter via email.
Dues are due on January 1st of each year. If you have ANY questions on this, please contact us.
Membership includes 6 newsletters per year.
Our newsletters are delivered by email (PDF format). We must have your current email address to deliver your newsletter. If you change your email address please notify our Secretary with your new one. Hard copies will be available for libraries. Please contact us for further details.
Dues are payable directly to:
Treasurer, Lenawee County Family Researchers
P. O. Box 623
Adrian, MI 49221
Please make checks payable to Lenawee County Family Researchers
Corresponding Secretary/Newsletter
P. O. Box 623
Adrian, MI. 49221
Please limit your questions to simple lookups, and to 1 core family group.
BEFORE you contact us, please do your census work on the family you are curious about. Our volunteers do not do census work.
If you have contacted other resources/researchers, mail lists, etc. asking for assistance, please give them one month to get back to you before you contact us. Many of our helpers also monitor the Lenawee County mail list and GENWEB sites and answer those requests. Contact only one of us at a time please, so we don't have several volunteers chasing all over the county doing the same work.
May we also suggest you look over all these web sites for help BEFORE you contact us:
Lenawee County GENWEB
This site has an amazing amount of information, spend some time there.
Genealogical Death Indexing System (GENDIS)
Index to deaths in Michigan, 1867 to at least 1884
FamilySearch Labs
This wonderful site has Michigan Marriages 1868 - 1925, Michigan Deaths 1867 - 1897 and Michigan Births 1867- 1902. It is wonderfully indexed and there are IMAGES!! Please note, this is considered a PILOT site, and at times some records may not be available.
SeekingMichigan
New, still uploading, Death records/certificates from 1897 to 1920.
A donation for lookups is always appreciated, it will go into our general fund. Costs, such as postage and copies, will be the responsibility of the researcher requesting assistance. As an extra benefit for those that donate we will also publish the surnames you are researching with your contact information in our newsletter.
Our members may or may not be in a position to help those in need of extensive research. Any agreement between you the researcher and our members for extensive research will be a private matter between the parties. Remember volunteers have families and jobs and the same responsibilities we all have, your patience and understanding is appreciated.
For help and limited lookups, after you have exhausted the suggested sites above, please contact:
Lenawee Research Helpers
Good luck in your research!
Information contained in this page can be used for non-commercial use only.
(Many thanks to Diane and Chuck Oslund who sponsored this page for many years.)
Page last updated April 18, 2009 To Lenawee County GENWEB Main page
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