Could somebody please do a look-up for me? Oakland Gazette Pontiac, MI Winter 2001 Vol. 34, Issue 1 Asa Hadsell - E. Todd Family 1796 + CT, MI Thank you, Terri Mulliken Allen Texas

I will be coming to Oakland and Ferndale the second week in June and would like some input as to where to find info ranging from 1940's thru now..I have had no luck with census and maybe someone could give me some unusual ways of searching...is there school annuals in any place in these areas....also, city directory...or phone books etc or other specific ways of looking for info...Any and all input would be more than greatly appreciated.This also involves adoption thru the Methodist Home...

Could someone please check the 1900 Oakland county census for the following SKELTON families for me? Susanna Serepta SKELTON widow age abt 60 probably Lyon twp. Edward SKELTON-wife Alice age abt 30 maybe Lyon Twp Richard SKELTON age about 38-maybe Lyon twp. Stephen and Adelle WOODWORTH ages abt 50 and 40. Possibly New Hudson twp. Charles and Emma BIGELOW age of Emma is about 30. possibly New Hudson twp. Thank you for any help with this family. Pam Pamela Villafuerte

Please join the Oakland County Genealogical Society for our meeting on May 4, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. at St. Stephens Church, 5500 N. Adams Rd., on the east side of Adams, between Long Lake Rd. and Square Lake Rd. The topic is: "Patterns of Immigration: 1800 - 2000" Tom Barrett, retired educator and genealogical researcher, will discuss "Old Immigrants" and "New Immigrants" --- where they came from, when, how many, and what influenced them. Early years, the great peak (c.1890-1920), the quota system and recent trends will also be addressed <http://server10.totalchoicehosting.com/mailman/listinfo/ocgs_warrenweb.info > OCGS website: http://www.rhpl.org/OCGS/ Thanks, Pam Pamela A. Warren www.warrenweb.info <http://www.warrenweb.info/>

I have a 1942 city directory for Pontiac and the only thing I have for an Andrew Smith is: Andrew J. (Lulu) factoryworker YT&CMCo h195 Elm. Don't know if he is the one you are looking for, but thought I would send it. Carole In a message dated 4/27/2004 3:10:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, MIOAKLAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Looking for my grandfather Andrew Smith, who lived in Pontiac most of > his adult life. Any help will be greatly appreciated. >

Is the Methodist Church in Highland, MI still there. My ggggrandfather, Abram Castle Taggett was a founding member. Is there any information about the founding families of the church available. Are baptismal records available. Does anyone know of any information about Abram Castle Taggett and his 1st wife Hannah Crocker Davis? Any info will be appreciated. Thank you. Sherri

Looking for my grandfather Andrew Smith, who lived in Pontiac most of his adult life. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Pam Potter Office Manager Venator Consulting Group 888 W. Big Beaver #450 Troy, MI 48084 pam@venatorconsulting.com www.venatorconsulting.com <http://www.venatorconsulting.com/> (P) 248-269-0000 (F) 248-269-9506 This email and any attachments thereto may contain private, confidential, and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, or distribution of this email (or any attachments thereto) by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete the original and any copies of this email and any attachments thereto. If you would like to unsubscribe please reply with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. <http://www.venatorconsulting.com/> <http://www.venatorconsulting.com/> -----Original Message----- From: MIOAKLAN-D-request@rootsweb.com [mailto:MIOAKLAN-D-request@rootsweb.com] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:08 AM To: MIOAKLAN-D@rootsweb.com Subject: MIOAKLAN-D Digest V04 #51

Pam, I'm sure the list would be glad to help, but a few pointers: 1. Change the digest subject so we can tell you are asking about an Andrew Smith! 2. Do you have any dates or other relevant information about Andrew? Middle name, birthdate, parents names, etc.? Even small straws of information can sometimes pay off big. Including that information can help us lookup more, or point you to a better source. 3. Turn off your business signature for 1) it shows you're slacking at work ;-) (not that lots of people don't do that but that you really wouldn't want your boss to find your posts), and 2) by its very nature, a mailing list defeats the purpose of the "confidential" tag line you use. By posting to the list, you agree to make the contents of your post public and viewable to many people. Please don't think I'm preachy - I'm very willing to help with a spot more information. After all, Pontiac is a big town and there are a whole lot of people out there with the last name Smith. Concetta >>> "Pam Potter" <p a m @ v e n a t o r c o n s u l t i n g . c o m > 4/26/2004 7:41:17 AM >>> Looking for my grandfather Andrew Smith, who lived in Pontiac most of his adult life. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Pam Potter

In a message dated 4/24/2004 7:08:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, MIOAKLAN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Do you have a William or Bernetta Peoples? McKim? Thank you. > No listing for a William or Bernetta Peoples. McKim, Jas A. (Fern E.) h98 Forest

Ella Ruth Durkee daughter of Charles Durkee and Abigail Evarts was married to Oscar Miller Carpenter. They lived on Joslyn Road in Orion Township. Researching: Carpenter, Durkee, Chamberlain, Stanley, Rolison, Hibler, Evarts, Mack Keith B. Carpenter

Do you have a William or Bernetta Peoples? McKim? Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christopher Sundita <csundita@yahoo.com> To: <MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Re: Willing to do look-ups > > --- GenChaser@aol.com wrote: > > > I have a 1942 City Directory for Pontiac. It also includes Auburn Heights, > > Drayton Plains, Keego Harbor, Orchard Lake and Sylvan Lake. Please post to > > list > > so that others may benefit from info. I will try to get to everyone as soon > > as possible. > > Hello, > > I'd appreciate it if you could do a look-up of the surname EISENHART or any > variation thereof (i.e., EISENHARDT, EISENRATH, etc.). And if you could, > MARTIN & LEVELY. > > Thank you very much, > > --Christopher Sundita > Washington State > > Researching: HAMILL > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Only problem with going to the courthouse and looking is that anything after 1940, if they have to go to the basement and get it, you have to buy it. Not a good thing. Sort of inhibits freebie lookups on ANYTHING after 1940 (deaths & Marriages). Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Purrsia2@aol.com [mailto:Purrsia2@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 6:41 PM To: MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Arnold St. John Could someone please look for me for the marriage of Arnold Raymond St. John and Jeannette Mae Rightler.....I have the divorce decree for 1967 but not the "actual" details so can not find the marriage anywhere....I would appreciate any help..maybe would have to go to the courthouse and see if on file, between 52-57.. ==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Could someone please look for me for the marriage of Arnold Raymond St. John and Jeannette Mae Rightler.....I have the divorce decree for 1967 but not the "actual" details so can not find the marriage anywhere....I would appreciate any help..maybe would have to go to the courthouse and see if on file, between 52-57..

As one who currently lives in Orion Township, let me help. There is a downtown area that has a different local government, which is the Village of Lake Orion. Surrounding the downtown area is Orion Township which has a separate governmental body. The one post office (Lake Orion) serves both as does the Orion Township library. If anyone needs additional info or a lookup from here, let me know. Mary Jo in Orion >From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com >To: MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Orion - Lake Orion >Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:40:27 -0400 > >Orion and Lake Orion should be one and the same. Way back when, it used to >be known as Orion rather than Lake Orion. It is on a lake. I have been >reading the local newspapers checking for obits and happenings of the local >town folk, and some time in the 1960's I believe it was, they changed the >name of the newspaper from Orion Weekly Review to Lake Orion Review. > >Therefore, I believe the town made the decision to also change its name to >reflect the fact that it is on a lake. > >So, if you are looking in the census records in the past, it was known as >Orion or Orion Village or Orion Twp. Then it became Lake Orion. > >Christie Trapp > > >==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== >You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > _________________________________________________________________ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/

I have learned so much from all the posts about Orion. Thank you! I am looking for more information on Betsey German, listed as 41 years old on the 1870 Census of the "Town of Orion, in the County of Oakland," with the post office at Canandaigua. Page 12, family 85. She was born in Canada. Two children listed with her are Charles, age 11 and Ella, age 9- both born in Michigan. Their father was of foreign birth. Where would I look for the death and burial information for Charles and Betsey, who are not listed on the 1880 Census? I BELIEVE Betsey was the widow of John German. I need proof of Ella's parents names. Would there be wills or real estate records available for Orion? On the 1880 Census, Ella is listed as a sister in the household of Philip and Mary Durkee. Ella married John Vaughan. Would like to compare information on the GERMAN , VAUGHAN, PEARSALL, LEET, and DURKEE families of Oakland County, Michigan. Thank you for any help or ideas of where to search next. Joan in Oregon chelson@web-ster.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Jo Burchart" <mjrjburchart@msn.com> To: <MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:12 AM Subject: RE: [MIOAKLAN] Orion - Lake Orion > As one who currently lives in Orion Township, let me help. There is a > downtown area that has a different local government, which is the Village of > Lake Orion. Surrounding the downtown area is Orion Township which has a > separate governmental body. The one post office (Lake Orion) serves both as > does the Orion Township library. > If anyone needs additional info or a lookup from here, let me know. > Mary Jo in Orion > > > >From: ChristieTrapp@aol.com > >To: MIOAKLAN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [MIOAKLAN] Orion - Lake Orion > >Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:40:27 -0400 > > > >Orion and Lake Orion should be one and the same. Way back when, it used to > >be known as Orion rather than Lake Orion. It is on a lake. I have been > >reading the local newspapers checking for obits and happenings of the local > >town folk, and some time in the 1960's I believe it was, they changed the > >name of the newspaper from Orion Weekly Review to Lake Orion Review. > > > >Therefore, I believe the town made the decision to also change its name to > >reflect the fact that it is on a lake. > > > >So, if you are looking in the census records in the past, it was known as > >Orion or Orion Village or Orion Twp. Then it became Lake Orion. > > > >Christie Trapp > > > > > >==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== > >You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > > >============================== > >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN > Premium! > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlb&pgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ > > > ==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >

--=======7D47238F======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-4AB5745; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello all; For as long as my parents can remember, who incidentally are in their late 70's mid 80's, the Village of Lake Orion has always been the Village of Lake Orion. It was never known as Orion in their lifetimes. The lake itself has a dam that is right near M 24, just south of town. The lake may have been man-made, or quite possibly enlarged at one time from a natural lake, I don't know. The town may have been named Orion back a 150 years or so ago, but during the 20th century it was Lake Orion. There used to be an amusement park on one of the islands in the lake. Park Island I think. I used to live on another island in the lake, Buena Vista Island, I think...at least that was the name of the street I lived on there. Have a great day all, Dan Harriman Orange, Texas At 15:27 04/22/2004, you wrote: >Hi! > >You're right, (the Village of) Lake Orion is the big town. But there >is also Orion Township! > >For example, the public library on Joslyn Road is the Orion Township >Public Library, instead of Lake Orion Public Library. > >The county has a great website about each of the communities of Oakland >County: http://www.co.oakland.mi.us/communities/ > >Concetta > > >>> <ChristieTrapp@aol.com> 4/22/2004 8:40:27 AM >>> >Orion and Lake Orion should be one and the same. Way back when, it >used to be known as Orion rather than Lake Orion. It is on a lake. I >have been reading the local newspapers checking for obits and happenings >of the local town folk, and some time in the 1960's I believe it was, >they changed the name of the newspaper from Orion Weekly Review to Lake >Orion Review. > >Therefore, I believe the town made the decision to also change its name >to reflect the fact that it is on a lake. > >So, if you are looking in the census records in the past, it was known >as Orion or Orion Village or Orion Twp. Then it became Lake Orion. > >Christie Trapp . If at first you don't succeed, maybe you shouldn't try sky diving! dit dit --=======7D47238F======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-4AB5745 Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.663 / Virus Database: 426 - Release Date: 04/20/2004 --=======7D47238F=======--

Here's a website that states that Lake Orion was indeed named Orion for a while - it changed (at least the post office name did) in 1926 with the village voting for it in 1929. The information is excepted below the link. http://www.hometownvalue.com/lakeorion.htm History John Wetmore and Judah Church (nearby Judah Lake was named for him) made the first land entries in the area in 1819, a power dame, built in 1823, united several small lakes and formed the present mile-wide lake. The settlement was first called Canandaigua for and by the settlers who had come here from the Canandaigua, N.Y., area. The village was first platted as Canandaigua City by James Stillson in 1836. But when it was given a post office the townspeople chose Orion "because it was short, handy to write, and altogether lovely". James Decker became it s first postmaster on June 30, 1834. The office was renamed to Oakland on May 11, 1843, but was later closed. On June 28, 1854, the New Canandaigua post office was transferred her and renamed Orion. Incorporated as the village of Orion in 1859. Its post office was renamed to Lake Orion on March 25, 1926 and by the popular village vote took the same name in 1929. Nancy

Orion and Lake Orion should be one and the same. Way back when, it used to be known as Orion rather than Lake Orion. It is on a lake. I have been reading the local newspapers checking for obits and happenings of the local town folk, and some time in the 1960's I believe it was, they changed the name of the newspaper from Orion Weekly Review to Lake Orion Review. Therefore, I believe the town made the decision to also change its name to reflect the fact that it is on a lake. So, if you are looking in the census records in the past, it was known as Orion or Orion Village or Orion Twp. Then it became Lake Orion. Christie Trapp

Hi! You're right, (the Village of) Lake Orion is the big town. But there is also Orion Township! For example, the public library on Joslyn Road is the Orion Township Public Library, instead of Lake Orion Public Library. The county has a great website about each of the communities of Oakland County: http://www.co.oakland.mi.us/communities/ Concetta >>> <ChristieTrapp@aol.com> 4/22/2004 8:40:27 AM >>> Orion and Lake Orion should be one and the same. Way back when, it used to be known as Orion rather than Lake Orion. It is on a lake. I have been reading the local newspapers checking for obits and happenings of the local town folk, and some time in the 1960's I believe it was, they changed the name of the newspaper from Orion Weekly Review to Lake Orion Review. Therefore, I believe the town made the decision to also change its name to reflect the fact that it is on a lake. So, if you are looking in the census records in the past, it was known as Orion or Orion Village or Orion Twp. Then it became Lake Orion. Christie Trapp ==== MIOAKLAN Mailing List ==== You can contact the listowner at Judy@BirdGenealogy.org ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Hi New to the list Looking for anyone with connection to or knowledge of: Ethelbert and Gertrude (Lacey) Sperry. Both are buried are Acadia Park Cemetery. Does anyone have ability to obtain obituary for Gertrude who date of death is: Nov 7-1954? Can do Ohio look up at Ohio Historic Society or State of Ohio in trade, or pay expenses. Thanks Sandy in Columbus