This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UGB.2ACI/1785.1 Message Board Post: Use these - US GENWEB SITE http://www.us-census.org/inventory/ 1870 Michigan Census = (Free, indexed and searchable, actual census page) http://envoy.libofmich.lib.mi.us/1870_census/ 1880 US Census – The Mormon Church Files LDS (Free, indexed and searchable) Click on the SEARCH tab at top of page Look for 1880 US Census on the left side of screen http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System (Free and searchable) http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/gendisx/search2.htm Jack & Marianne Dibean – Lansing Michigan Marriage Index Links = FREE http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/dibeanindex/dibean_county.html State of Michigan Death Certificate Request Link: http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/PHA/OSR/DEATHAPP.HTM REQUESTING A MICHIGAN DEATH RECORD The Michigan Vital Records office has records of deaths that occurred in Michigan and were filed with the state since 1867. Some of the records were not filed with the state; more records are missing from the pre-1916 files. Anyone is eligible to request a copy of a Michigan death record if the application is completed and signed and the required fee paid. City of Detroit Link: http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/health/vital/vital_m.htm http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/fAQ.htm (death certificate) **************************************************************** Q Where do I go to get a birth certificate or death certificate? A The Detroit Health Department, Vital Records Division, Herman Kiefer Health Complex, 1151 Taylor (zip 48202-1732) near the John C. Lodge expressway. The phone numbers are 313-876-4049 and 313-876-4133. Person must have died in Wayne County, Michigan In 1880 he is living in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw cty., Michigan.