http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micounty/ Just wanted to say a BIG thank you to Rick for listing this website. I'm recovering from the dreaded carpal tunnel/trigger finger surgery (everyone flex their hands!) and promised myself to clean out/reorganize all my files, papers, and to check out all the URL's I've made a note of. There is a bio on my 2xGrGrandfather Harvey Townsend. The only info I had was a guesstimate of birth in 1835/36 in NY and then finding him in the 1860 census in Oxford with his wife Lois Brown. I now know he came to Lapeer with his parents Nathan and Nancy in 1846 from Wayne Co, NY and has a younger brother Octavious. Harvey and Lois had a farm in Lapeer (1870 census) for a number of years and when her parents Isaac and Artimisia Brown passed, they inherited the farm in Oxford. So, clean out your files---you may have a goldmine hidden!!! Annie Atlanta, GA