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Find it on the Web
• State of Michigan Division for Vital Records
<www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/vitframe.htm>: Vital records since 1867, divorce records since 1897.
• Michigan 1870 Census Index
<envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us/1870_census/>: Search 1870 list of family names in each Michigan household.
• Detroit Society for Genealogical Research
<www.dsgr.org>: Note list of publications.
• Map showing Detroit Historical Museum, DPL and Reuther Library
<www.wayne.edu/campus_maps/maincampus.html>
• GoDowntownDetroit.com
On the bookshelf
• Global Journeys in Metro Detroit: A Multicultural Guide to the Motor City by Marcia Danner, Helen B. Love and Patricia Banker Peart (New Detroit), ethnic dining, arts and attractions, plus history
• Guide to the Manuscripts in the Burton Historical Collection by Bernice Cox Sprenger (order from Burton), annotated and indexed
• A Genealogical Guide to the Burton Historical Collection by Joseph Oldenburg (Ancestry, out of print)
• Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701-7936 by Christian Denissen (Detroit Society for Genealogical Research)
• Early Days in Detroit by Friend Palmer (Omnigraphics, out of print), personal narrative on people and events during his 1820 to 1906 lifetime
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