Western Michigan Genealogical Society Online searchable database obituary obituaries - A genealogy society in west Michigan especially Kent County and the surrounding counties of Ottawa, Muskegon, Newaygo, Montcalm, Ionia, Barry, and Allegan.

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Happy New Year 2009!!!! Summary of WMGS Online Databases at 02 July 2009
Database		# of Records
	West Michigan Newspapers - An index to the Death Notices and Obituaries published in the Grand Rapids Press and Grand Rapids Herald from 1910 to today. It includes the listings of Engagements, Weddings and Anniversaries from the Saturday papers from today, going back in time to 1969. Starting on 25 January 2008 the index now includes the daily "In Memoriam" entries from the Grand Rapids Press. Also includes an index to the Rockford Register. THANK YOU to Pat Rademaker who has done the bulk of the indexing. 2 Jul2009 - added June 2009 and more EWA from 1968. Also added over 9,000 records from the Northfield Advance from during the 1990s. These records are in the form of clippings in a scrapbook which have been indexed by name, but they are without dates. Records can be downloaded as PDF files of a page of the scrapbook. Copies can not be ordered. The clippings are used with permission of Advance Newspapers. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	849,733
	Kent County School Census - Index to the listings of Student and Teacher names in the Annual Census and Statistic Returns of Kent County Schools from 1903 - 1925. We can provide copies of the pages from these books which show students names and details, as well as details about the school attended. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	232,359
	Michigana - Index to the names of people mentioned in the first 53 years of WMGS' quarterly publication Michigana from 1954 - 2008. If you search and find a name you're interested in you will be able to order a copy of the page the name is on. In many instances you'll be able to order a copy of the whole issue containing the page. This is identified on the Search Results page. 22 January 2009 - added the Index for 2008. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	185,563
	Veterans - Index of the residents of the "The Grand Rapids Home for Veterans". 29 January 2007. Added another 1,769 records of the men's index to the database. Total Men's records now 10,946. Total including Women 13,697. All records that are available on microfilm at the Grand Rapids Public Library are now listed in this index. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	13,241
	World War One Veterans Census - A searchable database containing the names of Veterans of World War One who were living in Kent County, Michigan after the end of The Great War. Records contain information about the Vet's parents, birth date and place, military service and other information. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	9,916
	WMGS Manuscripts - 29 March 2009- Added another 7,535 records to this database. The search results are linked to PDF files that contain scanned images of the pages in the Manuscript. Some files are larger than 10 MB, so please be patient if you try to download one of these files.	105,458
	WMGS Members' Genealogy - Genealogy files made up from the 4 generation charts that have been submitted by WMGS Members over the 50 years WMGS has been collecting these. These files are slowly being added to as the existing charts are entered.	18,918
	Black Monument Company - A listing of names in the Order Books of the Black Monument Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Records in this database indicate the names and dates that were placed on grave markers ordered from the Black Monument Company, and shows the name of the cemetery the marker was placed in.	13,653
	Farm Bureau News - An every name index to the people listed in the Farm Bureau News published in Kent County Feb. 1918 - Dec. 1926. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	8,585
	Michigan Census - A compilation of census indexes from Western Michigan. The indexes were compiled by Evelyn Sawyer, and include records from Kent, Ottawa, Barry, Newaygo, Mecosta and other counties from 1860, 1870 Federal Censuses and 1884 and 1894 Michigan Censuses. THANK YOU to Evelyn Sawyer who did much of the transcription, and provided the compilations for most of these records.	119,849
	Kent County Deaths - Index to the names of the people listed in the Index to the deaths recorded in Kent County, Michigan. 14 June 2009 - added more records - total now 48,067. THANK YOU to all who have done the typing. NOTE that this index is a work in progress - not all of it has been done yet. The progress can be seen here	60,789
	Kent County Marriages - Index to the names of the people listed in the Index to the marriages recorded in Kent County, Michigan. 30 May 2008- added another 8,387 records - total now 167,146. This project is definitely nearing completion- hopefully there are only a few stragglers left to index. THANK YOU to all who have done the typing.	167,142
	Latzek Funeral Home - An index to the Registers of the Latzek Funeral Home in Grand Rapids from 1903 - 1962. If you search it and find a record that is of interest to you, we can provide a hand written transcript of it from the book. See the Search Results page for full details. Payment by PayPal is accepted for copies of records from this database.	4,868
	Chapman's 1881 History of Kent County - An every name index to the Chapman's History of Kent County, published in 1881. Search results are linked to scanned images made available by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, which has provided searchable scanned images of many different books of Michigan History.	33,017
	Goss' History of Grand Rapids and its Industries - Index to the names of people in the 1906 Goss History of Grand Rapids. If you find a person you're looking for, you can click a link to download a PDF file that has an image of that page from the book in it.	9,052
	Quigley - An index of Family Names and Articles from various Periodicals compiled by Maud Quigley.	10,072
	Western Michigan Surnames and Queries - A place to post your queries of surnames you're working on, and find others working on the same line.	3,289
	WMGS Internet Links - A searchable database of helpful genealogy links that others have found - post your own favourites* here for others to use. *British - from obsolete French favorit, from Old Italian favorito, past participle of favorire, to favor, from favore, favor, from Latin favor.
	Total	1,845,504

WMGS Online Databases have been online for 9 years!!!!!!!
Now over 1.7 MILLION records online!!!!!!!!
Obituaries and EWA database past 818,000!!!!!!!

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