Did you have any Smith's who moved to Michigan from Tyre or Junius (Seneca) New York? The county clerk has birth and death records from 1867. You can visit the genealogy section on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10-2 (current hours). Volunteers are present, as I understand. County clerk address: Genealogy Dept. Jackson County Clerk 312 S. Jackson St. Jackson, MI 49201 You can get the phone number from a search on vitalrec.com or via the Jackson County webpage on Michigan genweb. At the local library main branch, they have some DAR/WPA books with old death records, land records, etc. indexed. Their catalogue is online. They also have a card file of the local paper, which includes some obits. I'm not sure how comprehensive it is. Their genealogy research room has other stuff as well. If your ancestors were farmers be sure to look at the 1858 and 1894 (?) atlases. They have line drawings of some farms. Jackson District Library 244 W. Michigan Ave. Jackson, MI 49201 If you have a death date, you might also send for a State of Michigan death record. They start 1867 too I think. They have a form online which you can send in for this. Good luck! Carolyn At 10:01 AM -0600 9/2/04, cgarmstrong@comcast.net wrote: >This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. >We will be visiting Jackson in October and need to find death >records or obituaries for the years 1850 - 1905. Where is the best >place to locate these? How about birth records? >Thanks for any tips you can give us. >Connie Armstrong >Fresno, California >cgarmstrong@comcast.net -- Carolyn Ybarra Family Research Services 1017 El Camino Real, #332 Redwood City, CA 94063 ybarra@FamilyResearchServices.com http://www.genealogypro.com/family-research-services.html Researching SOUTHWELL (MA 1600s, CT 1700s, VT 1790-1810, NY 1800-1840, MI 1836 - present) BUSKE (MI and IL 1872-) EIGHMEY (NY 1800s) BISHOP (CT 1700s, NY 1800-1850) McKEE, MAGEE (NY 1800-1840, MI 1836-) ABBOTT (NY?, MI 1836-) WENDROW (NY 1900's) FULTERMAN/FUTTERMAN (NY 1900's) SOBEL (NY, NJ 1920-)