May 2025 Meeting
Next Meeting Saturday, June 21st 2025, 1:30 PM
at The Burton Historical Collection - Detroit Public Library, 5201 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48216
Please join us for the monthly meeting of the 2024 - 2025 season featuring a tour of the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library led by Mark Bowden. There will be free parking in the staff lot on Putnam Street. Putnam Street is South of the Detroit Public Library and is One Way from Cass to Woodward. A map of the location of the Burton Historical Collection can be found here. Reminders for this meeting will be emailed out to members as the date approaches. There will be no Zoom meeting this month.
Important Information:
The Detroit Public Library opens at 2:00 P.M. but our tour starts at 1:30 P.M. Please arrive early and enter at the entrance on the Cass Avenue side of the building (Please see the map.) You MUST enter on the Cass Avenue side. This is a special research day which will follow the 40 to 45 minute tour. The Bentley Historical Collection will stay open to 6:00 P.M. for research.
Selected Detroit and Michigan Genealogical Resources
at the Burton Historical Collection,
Detroit Public Library
This presentation will be a tour of the Burton Historical Collection and it's unique genealogical resources for Michigan and Detroit research. Resources found at Burton Historical Collection include: Detroit Death index, burial transit permits, Wayne County coroner’s files, Roman Catholic Church records, naturalization records from Detroit Recorders Court, Michigan World War II service awards index, Michigan Korean war casualties index, and more!
Since 2010, Mark Bowden has been the Coordinator for Special Collections at the Detroit Public Library. These collections include: the Burton Historical Collection, the Rare Book Collection, the E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, the Ernie Harwell Sports Collection, and the National Automotive History Collection. During the last 19 years he has spoken to many groups about the genealogical resources housed in the Burton Collection.
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Welcome
Welcome to the Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan. The Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan is a non-denominational organization focusing on genealogical research in all thirty-two counties of the Emerald Isle. Our meeting is open to everyone who can attend at the Gaelic League. Zoom invitations are sent out to members only due to capacity limitations.
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