We have just posted a list of the poorhouse records held at the MICHIGAN
STATE ARCHIVES...on The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information
about 19th century American poorhouses)at
http://www.poorhousestory.com
The counties for which the state archives holds poorhouse records include
the following:
BAY
BRANCH
BENZIE
CHARLEVOIX
DICKINSON
EATON
GRATIOT
INGHAM
IONIA
ISABELLA
KENT
LENAWEE
LIVINGSTON
LUCE
MUSKEGAN
OCEANA
ROSCOMMON
SHIAWASSEE
ST. CLAIR
TUSCOLA
VAN BUREN
If you have visited The POORHOUSE STORY recently, you may need to click
REFRESH on your browser to see the new material.
For those new to the site,
DIRECTIONS: at the homepage (link above)click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then
click on OTHER STATES, then on MICHIGAN on the table of states. Then scroll
down to the section for RECORDS and see the entry (which is marked with a
yellow new arrow.)
PLEASE HELP US LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS LIST! I would appreciate it very
much if those of you who subscribe to the e-mail lists for the counties
above would kindly forward this note to the lists. It could save me so much
time to spend on further poorhouse research.
Thanks,
Linda Crannell
(aka=The Poorhouse Lady)