I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update with each post. The names of members of George W. Burdick’s family appear quite often in the …
Tag: Wexford Co MI
Oct 30
Granny’s Land Record Transcriptions
I received a Facebook comment with regard to my land record spreadsheet. I asked permission and added the comment at the end of the post here on my blog. A Facebook comment is soon lost in the feed of status updates, link posts and other miscellaneous garbage stuff information, and I prefer that comments and …
Oct 27
Liber 2 Page 403 Land Records, what next?
I am writing a little about my experience working with deed records, using Wexford County, Michigan as an example. After I had collected a list of the names and location of the records, I started through the deed record books using my form. It might be helpful to explain that although recording this information directly …
Oct 26
Wexford County Deeds, Part 2
Now I had a neat spreadsheet of land records I extracted from the Wexford County, Michigan index books. What should I do next? There were so many deeds, and I was not equally interested in them. Or, at least at the moment I created my list from the index, some were more important to me …
Oct 23
Wexford County Deeds
Several years ago I read some deed indices in Wexford County, Michigan, looking for transactions for our ancestors. Papa had to travel to Cadillac, the county seat and our former home, for work, so I just hitched a ride and had him drop me at the courthouse. I did not go just once, I went …
Jul 25
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Good Genealogy Luck
Randy Seaver says, “It’s Saturday Night – time for our weekly Genealogy Fun!” John Milton originally said “luck is the residue of design” (and Branch Rickey is often credited with the saying). However, the definition of “luck” is “the chance happening of fortunate or adverse events.” I saw a post on the Genealogy Insider blog …
Feb 28
A Little about Charlie Tinker
Tinker, Charles (Colfax Township, Wexford County, MI) Photograph. Digital duplication of an undated postcard image. Privately held by GrannyPam, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Troy, MI. 2009. Charlie Tinker was the second husband of Belle Lamunion. They married July 15, 1914. The Michigan Marriage returns for the quarter ending September 30, 1914, record 125, says that …
Jan 07
Fairveiw Cemetery, Manton, Michigan
Fairview cemetery is in the city of Manton,Michigan. A transcription which resides in the Cadillac-Wexford Library, Cadillac Michigan says Gertie W. Burdick is the oldest burial found in the cemetery. On lot 373, section 1, owner L.T. Fenton, according to the book, the remains of Papa’s earliest Michigan ancestors are interred. The lot was probably …
Oct 01
Belle’s Box – 36
Read about this series of posts, regarding items in a box originally owned by Belle (Lamunion) Fellows Tinker here. The cast of characters is located here. A single thanks following a funeral Gratefully acknowledging and thanking you for the flowers and your kind expression of sympathy From the Letherby Family The family of Lester F …
