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Genealogy Publications

The Northfield Township Area Library has a number of printed publications to assist you in your genealogy research. (Please keep in mind that those with the call number "REF" may only be used in the Library.)

Atlases & Maps
  • Family maps of Livingston County, Michigan : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more /  by Gregory A. Boyd. REF 912.77436 Boy
  • Family maps of Washtenaw County, Michigan : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more / by Gregory A. Boyd. REF 912.77435 Boy
  • Michigan cemetery atlas / Library of Michigan (1991). REF 977.4 Lib
  • Washtenaw County, Michigan, plat maps 1856 and 1864. REF 912.774 Was
 
Cemeteries
  • Directory of cemeteries of Washtenaw County Michigan (1996).  REF 929.5 Dir
  • Leland Cemetery, Northfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan (1984).  REF 979.5 Lel
  • Michigan cemetery atlas / Library of Michigan (1991).  REF 977.4 Mic
  • Michigan cemetery source book / Library of Michigan (1994).  REF 977.4 Lib
  • A Reading of the Hamburg Twp. Cemetery, Livingston Co., MI / James E. Taylor (1992).  REF 929.5 Tay
  • St Patrick's Cemetery, Northfield Township, Washtenaw Co., MI (1989)  REF 929.5 St
 
General How-to Books
  • First steps in genealogy : a beginner's guide to researching your family history / Desmond Walls Allen (1998).   929.1 All
  • A Genealogist's guide to discovering your female ancestors : special strategies for uncovering hard-to-find information about your female lineage / Sharon DeBartolo Carmack (1998).  929.1082 Car
  • A genealogist's companion & sourcebook : a beyond-the-basics, hands-on guide to unpuzzling your past / Emily Croon (1994).  929 Cro
  • Genealogy online : researching your roots / Elizabeth Powell Crowe (1998).  929.1 Cro
  • The everything family tree book : finding, charting, and preserving your family history / William G. Hartley (1998).  929.1 Har
  • Finding Your Roots Online / Nancy Hendrickson (2003).  025.06 Hen
  • A genealogist's guide to discovering your African-American ancestors : how to find and record your unique heritage / Franklin Carter Smith (2003).  929.1 Smi
  • Preserving your family photographs : how to organize, present, and restore precious family images / Maureen A. Taylor (2001).  771.46 Tay
  • Finding your roots : how to trace your ancestors at home and abroad / Jeane Eddy Westin (1998).  929 Wes 
 
General Reference & Directories
  • Ancestry's red book : American state, county & town sources / (1992).  REF 929.1 Ane
  • Genealogy in Michigan, what, when, where / Alloa Caviness Anderson (1978).  MICH 929.107 And
  • The genealogy sourcebook / Sharon Carmack DeBartolo (1997).  929.1 Car
  • Guide to the Michigan genealogical & historical collections at the Library of Michigan and the State Archives of Michigan /  Michigan Genealogical Council (1996).  REF 929.377 Mic
  • Michigan genealogy : sources & resources 2nd Ed. / Carol McGinnis (2005).  REF 929 McG
  • Michigan genealogy : sources & resources / Carol McGinnis (1987). MICH 929.107 McG
  • Michigan place names : the history of the founding and the naming of more than five thousand past and present Michigan communities / Walter Romig (1973).  REF 977.4 Rom 
 
Local Histories
  • Washtenaw County : an illustrated history / Ruth Bordin (1988).  MICH 977.435 Bor
  • From the marshgrasses : a history of St. Patrick's of Northfield / Thomas Patrick Hennings (1981?).  MICH 977.435 Hen
  • Looking Back : the history of Northfield Township and the Whitmore Lake area / Thomas Patrick Hennings (1985).  MICH 977.435 Hen & REF 977.435 Hen
  • History of Washtenaw County, Michigan : history of Michigan (2 vols.) / (1881).  REF 977.435 His
  • Northfield harvest : a pictorial history of Northfield Township and the Whitmore Lake area / (1999).  MICH 977.435 Nor & REF 977.435 Nor
  • Washtenaw County, Michigan, plat maps 1856 and 1864 / (1997).  REF 912.774 Was 
 
Newspapers
  • The Northfield Courant / (2004 -2005 , v.1 -2).   MICH 977.435 Nor
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