This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kFB.2ACI/1958.1 Message Board Post: Dear Gloria, The Genealogical Death Index System (GENDIS) shows four or five Akins children died in the early 1870s whose parents were John and Sarah Akins. http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/gendisx/search.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~mibay/bayindex.html http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/bay/bayvitalstats.htm The county library has city directories. I don't know how far back they go. You would ask the reference dept. http://www.baycountylibrary.org/index.shtml