We have just posted a list of the poorhouse records held at the MICHIGAN STATE ARCHIVES...on The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses)at http://www.poorhousestory.com The counties for which the state archives holds poorhouse records include the following: BAY BRANCH BENZIE CHARLEVOIX DICKINSON EATON GRATIOT INGHAM IONIA ISABELLA KENT LENAWEE LIVINGSTON LUCE MUSKEGAN OCEANA ROSCOMMON SHIAWASSEE ST. CLAIR TUSCOLA VAN BUREN If you have visited The POORHOUSE STORY recently, you may need to click REFRESH on your browser to see the new material. For those new to the site, DIRECTIONS: at the homepage (link above)click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then click on OTHER STATES, then on MICHIGAN on the table of states. Then scroll down to the section for RECORDS and see the entry (which is marked with a yellow new arrow.) PLEASE HELP US LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS LIST! I would appreciate it very much if those of you who subscribe to the e-mail lists for the counties above would kindly forward this note to the lists. It could save me so much time to spend on further poorhouse research. Thanks, Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)