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Published Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

Several helpful gazetteers of Michigan have been published. Three of the better sources for finding place names are:

Blois, John T. Gazetteer of the State of Michigan. Detroit, Mich.: S.L. Rood, 1939. FHL Film 897469 item 1; Fiche 6051130.)

Romig, Walter. Michigan Place Names. Grosse Pointe, Mich.: n.p., 197-. FHL Book 977.4 E2r; Film 982202 item 1.

Michigan Gazetteer. Wilmington, De.: American Historical Publications, 1991. FHL Book 977.4 E5mg. A historical gazetteer which gives detailed information about events that have occurred and the individuals who participated.

For other placename and locality books see:

ATLAS OF GREAT LAKES INDIAN HISTORY by H. Tanner.
ATLAS OF MICHIGAN, by Tackaberry.
ATLAS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN by H.F. Walling.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF MICHIGAN, 1840-1880 by Louis C. Karpinski
EARLY MICHIGAN SETTLEMENTS by W.W. Florer.
LAKE SUPERIOR PLACE NAMES: FROM BAWATING TO THE MONTREAL, by Bernard C. Peters
MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF THE COUNTIES OF MICHIGAN, 1818-1841, 30 volS. by Bela Hubbard.
MICHIGAN ATLASES & PLAT BOOKS: A CHECKLIST 1872-1973, comp. by Wm. Miles.
MICHIGAN GHOST TOWNS, by Dodge, 3 vols.
MICHIGAN INDIAN PLACE NAMES, by Vogel
MICHIGAN SHADOW TOWNS: A STUDY OF VANISHING AND VIBRANT VILLAGES, by Gene Scott
TOWNSHIP ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES comp. by John L. Andriot.

Other interesting data is the "The Rural Property Inventory" by LeRoy Barnett, a description of which appears in "Michigan's Habitant Heritage" the journal of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, v.3 #3 p.43 (1982).

Polk's Gazetteers and Directories[edit | edit source]

Gazetteers and business directories compiled by J.E. Scripps and R.L. Polk in Detriot are available on Google Books for the following years.

1873 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory

1875 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory

1877 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory

Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, 1839 - https://archive.org/details/gazetteerofstate01bloi

How did your migrating ancestor find the correct destination out West? Quite possibly they had a copy of Brown's book:

Brown, Samuel R. The Western Gazetteer or Emigrant's Directory, Containing a Geographical Description of the Western States and Territories, viz. The States of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi: and the Territories of Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, and North-Western. Auburn, N.Y.: H.C. Southwick, 1817. Digital versions at NIU Library Digitization Projects and World Vital Records ($).

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-== Online Gazetteers ==
+== Published Gazetteers ==
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?reqParents=332&reqParentsLabel=State&reqParentsType=362&includeIsParent=true&primaryText=Michigan%2C%20United%20States&searchTypeaheadInputText=Search%20Within%3AMichigan%2C%20United%20States FamilySearch Places]
+Several helpful gazetteers of [[Michigan, United States Genealogy|Michigan]] have been published. Three of the better sources for finding place names are:
-*[http://www.interment.net/us/mi/index.htm Interment.net, Michigan Death and Cemetery Records]
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/338961-michigan-place-names-the-history-of-the-founding-and-the-naming-of-more-than-five-thousand-past-and-present-michigan-communities?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= Michigan place names : the history of the founding and the naming of more than five thousand past and present Michigan communities] Walter Romig. Michigan Place Names : the history of the founding and the naming of more than five thousand past and present Michigan communities. Digital Publisher FamilySearch International
-*[https://archive.org/details/gazetteerofstate01bloi 1939 Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, in three parts ...] John T Blois.  Gazetteer of the State of Michigan, in three parts ... with a succinct history of the state, from the earliest period to the present time ... with an appendix, containing the usual statistical tables, and a directory for emigrants, &c. Detroit, S.L. Rood & co.; [etc., etc.] 1939
-*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071130846&view=1up&seq=13 1856-57 State of Michigan Gazetteer and Directory] James Sutherland. State of Michigan gazetteer & business directory for 1856-7. Detroit, Mich. : H. H. Lee & Co. & J. Sutherland, 1856
-*[https://archive.org/details/michiganstatega00pubgoog 1867-68 Michigan State Gazetteer and Directory] R L Polk and Charles F Clark. Michigan state gazetteer and business directory for 1867-68. Detroit : Charles F. Clark 1864
-*[http://books.google.ca/books?id=747hAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Polk%27s+Michigan+State+Gazetteer+and+Business+Directory&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCxuVIzmIs-OyASe7YKABQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 1873 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory] J E Scripps and R L Polk. Polk's Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1873. Detroit: Tribune Book and Job Office 1873
-*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-v80AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Polk%27s+Michigan+State+Gazetteer+and+Business+Directory&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCxuVIzmIs-OyASe7YKABQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Polk%27s%20Michigan%20State%20Gazetteer%20and%20Business%20Directory&f=false 1875 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory] J E Scripps and R L Polk. Polk's Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1875. Detroit: Tribune Printing Co. 1875
-*[http://books.google.ca/books?id=cpHhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:bHSge7am9yYC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6S1uVMTnOcWSyATglIHADQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 1877 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory Vol III] R L Polk and Jacob W Weeks. 1877 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, Vol III. R L Polk and Tribune Building 1877
-== Print Only Gazetteers ==
+*Blois, John T. ''Gazetteer of the State of Michigan''. Detroit, Mich.: S.L. Rood, 1939. {{FHL|251497|item|disp=FHL Film 897469 item 1; Fiche 6051130.)}}
-*{{FSC|408090|item|disp=Michigan gazetteer}} American Historical Publications. Michigan Gazetteer. Wilmington, Delaware : American Historical Publications, c1991
-*{{FSC|2478966|item|disp=1873 atlas of the State of Michigan, including statistics}} Henry Francis Walling. 1873 Atlas of the State of Michigan, including statistics. Knightstown, Indiana : The Bookmark, c1977
-*{{FSC|474870|item|disp=Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana, with a view of its hydraulic and business capacities}} T G Turner. Gazetteer of the St. Joseph Valley, Michigan and Indiana, with a view of its hydraulic and business capacities. Grand Rapids, Michigan : Black Letter Press, 1978
-*{{FSC|568921|item|disp=Along the tracks: a directory of named places on Michigan railroads}} Graydon M. Meints. Along the Tracks: a Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads. Mount Pleasant, Michigan : Central Michigan University, Clarke Historical Library, c1987
-*{{FSC|582015|item|disp=Indian Names in Michigan}} Virgil J. Vogel. Indian Names in Michigan. Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, c1986, Rexdale, Ontario : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
-== Why Use Gazetteers ==
+*Romig, Walter. ''Michigan Place Names''. Grosse Pointe, Mich.: n.p., 197-. {{FHL|264955|item|disp=FHL Book 977.4 E2r; Film 982202 item 1.}}
-A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.
+*''Michigan Gazetteer''. Wilmington, De.: American Historical Publications, 1991. {{FHL|408090|item|disp=FHL Book 977.4 E5mg}}. A historical gazetteer which gives detailed information about events that have occurred and the individuals who participated.
-There are many places within a state with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.
+For other placename and locality books see:<br>
-=== Gazetteer Contents ===
+*ATLAS OF GREAT LAKES INDIAN HISTORY by H. Tanner.
+*ATLAS OF MICHIGAN, by Tackaberry.
+*ATLAS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN by H.F. Walling.
+*BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED MAPS OF MICHIGAN, 1840-1880 by Louis C. Karpinski
+*EARLY MICHIGAN SETTLEMENTS by W.W. Florer.
+*LAKE SUPERIOR PLACE NAMES: FROM BAWATING TO THE MONTREAL, by Bernard C. Peters
+*MANUSCRIPT MAPS OF THE COUNTIES OF MICHIGAN, 1818-1841, 30 volS. by Bela Hubbard.
+*MICHIGAN ATLASES &amp; PLAT BOOKS: A CHECKLIST 1872-1973, comp. by Wm. Miles.
+*MICHIGAN GHOST TOWNS, by Dodge, 3 vols.
+*MICHIGAN INDIAN PLACE NAMES, by Vogel
+*MICHIGAN SHADOW TOWNS: A STUDY OF VANISHING AND VIBRANT VILLAGES, by Gene Scott
+*TOWNSHIP ATLAS OF THE UNITED STATES comp. by John L. Andriot.
-Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:
+Other interesting data is the "The Rural Property Inventory" by LeRoy Barnett, a description of which appears in "Michigan's Habitant Heritage" the journal of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, v.3 #3 p.43 (1982).<br>
-*Different religious denominations
+=== Polk's Gazetteers and Directories ===
-*Schools, colleges, and universities
-*Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
-*The population size.
-*Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
-*Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
-*Longitude and latitude.
-*Distances and direction from other from cities.
-*Schools, colleges, and universities.
-*Denominations and number of churches.
-*Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)
-[[Category:Michigan, United States]]
+Gazetteers and business directories compiled by J.E. Scripps and R.L. Polk in Detriot are available on Google Books for the following years. <br>
+* [http://books.google.ca/books?id=747hAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Polk%27s+Michigan+State+Gazetteer+and+Business+Directory&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCxuVIzmIs-OyASe7YKABQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 1873 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory]
+* [http://books.google.com/books?id=-v80AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Polk%27s+Michigan+State+Gazetteer+and+Business+Directory&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NCxuVIzmIs-OyASe7YKABQ&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Polk%27s%20Michigan%20State%20Gazetteer%20and%20Business%20Directory&f=false 1875 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory]
+* [http://books.google.ca/books?id=cpHhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:bHSge7am9yYC&hl=en&sa=X&ei=6S1uVMTnOcWSyATglIHADQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false 1877 Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory]
+<br>
+*Gazetteer of the state of Michigan, 1839 - https://archive.org/details/gazetteerofstate01bloi<br>
+How did your migrating ancestor find the correct destination out West? Quite possibly they had a copy of Brown's book:
+*Brown, Samuel R. ''The Western Gazetteer or Emigrant's Directory, Containing a Geographical Description of the Western States and Territories, viz. The States of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi: and the Territories of Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, and North-Western''. Auburn, N.Y.: H.C. Southwick, 1817. Digital versions at [http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/navigate.pl?lincoln.13 NIU Library Digitization Projects] and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?akid=k160710&cpn=pfmxk160710&ix=cdusaus0358_westerngazetteer World Vital Records] ($).
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