Wayne County, Michigan:
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Projects

• History Detroit  1701-2001
• Northville History Index 
• Wayne County, Michigan      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• WayneGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Macomb County, MI  to the northeast
• Monroe County, MI  to the south
• Oakland County, MI  to the north
• Washtenaw County, MI  to the west

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence (19)

Cemeteries (21)

Census Records and Indexes (82)

Church Records (11)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Wayne County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• The New Wayne County Court House  1903     (Source: Google Books)
• Wayne County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

Directories (40)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• Slavery in the Early 1800's Detroit, Michigan      (Source: Images of Michigan)

Estate Records

• Michigan Probate Records  1797-1973     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Michigan Wills and Probate Records, 1784-1980  includes Wayne County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wayne County, Michigan Probate Records      (Source: SAMPUBCO)

Ethnic

• Abstracted Persons designated as colored in Johnston's 1857-8 City Directory of Detroit 
• Directory of Negro Businesses, Professions and Churches for Detroit and Environs      (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)
• Recollections of Hamtramck, Michigan  A Polish-American Community     (Source: The Making of Modern Michigan)

History (302)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1914-1965  includes Detroit     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Detroit Border Crossings and Passenger and Crew Lists  1905-1963     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Detroit Manifests of Arrival  1906-1954     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Michigan Passenger and Crew Lists, 1903-1965  includes Detroit, Michigan     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Michigan, Eastern District, Naturalization Index  1907-1995     (Source: FamilySearch)
• U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995  Detroit     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States, Passenger and Crew Lists  includes Detroit     (Source: Find My Past)     ($)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of Michigan locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Wayne County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Wayne County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)
• Wayne County, Michigan Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Wayne County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Monroe, Wayne Counties     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wayne County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Wayne County Land Records 

Libraries, Museums, Archives (47)

Lookups

• Wayne County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• mipolonia  The focus of Michigan Polonia is on Polish-American genealogy in the entire state of Michigan. NOT limited to the metro Detroit area     (Source: Yahoo! Groups)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• MIWAYNE Wayne County genealogy

  • MIWAYNE Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (35)

Military Records and Histories (26)

Miscellaneous Data

• American War Mothers, Katherine Lindsay Chapter No. 7, Detroit, Michigan      (Source: MyHeritage)     ($)
• Classic Buildings of Metropolitan Detroit and Wayne County      (Source: Society of Architectural Historians)
• Contributors & Committee Members, 1951  Finlandia Chorus of Detroit and Salem National Lutheran Church
• History of Eloise Hospital  Wayne County House, Wayne County Asylum (1913)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Name and Address Index of Finns  Greater Detroit, 1935
• Wayne County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (22)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (61)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (24)

School Records and Histories (43)

Societies (32)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (2,387)

Tax Lists

• Brownstown Township Tax records, 1855-1857  Viewing restrictions may apply     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Wyandotte Tax records, 1879-1894  Viewing restrictions may apply     (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry (28)

Vital Records (12)

Wiki

• Wayne County, Michigan Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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