I looked for two years for my great great grandfather's sister. My only trace of her was a family history written in 1964 that said she was last known to be living in Hastings, Michigan. Many things in this oral history were incorrect, but I clung to this strand of information. I did narrow in on possible families and at one point thought I had found her. I sent away for her civil war veteran husband's pension file and had a giant disappointment when the file came and I found out I was wrong. She was not this man's wife.
One night, when I couldn't sleep, I once again put her name (or her father or mother) into family search and up came a marriage record for her daughter. I'm not sure what I actually used as my search criteria, but this was a major break as now I had her married name. With this information, I went to the Seeking Michigan website and found a death certificate for her which correctly listed her mother and father.
Seeking Michigan has online images of death records for 1897 - 1920. I like to start at the discover page as it shows you all the digital collections that are available at seekingmichigan.com.
http://seekingmichigan.org/discover
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This is a wonderful resource. After I did more research on my long lost ancestor, I found out that her husband was a civil war veteran! I went back to seekingmichigan.com, it has lots of civil war records. I especially love looking through the portraits of soldiers.
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