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Several stops can lead to the same repository. Maps show selected verified locations, not every guide stop or every community represented in the records. Use each stop’s access instructions, including for online and out-of-county collections. Check access before traveling.
Ask staff which album or index fits your locality; record the original item description as well as a transcription.
Repository information · Map position sourceFollow the Newspaper Archive link and inspect the issue image when a name appears.
Repository information · Map position sourceCounty outlines: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 cartographic boundaries . Selected major roads: 2024 TIGER/Line primary and secondary roads . Public repository addresses checked against the sources above, with approximate Census geocoder positions. Unmatched addresses and out-of-county repositories are listed in the key rather than assigned a guessed position. Markers identify contact locations, not collection coverage. Historical boundaries, township lines and current traffic conditions are not shown. Prepared November 1, 2026.
The Michigan Room brings together plats, cemetery indexes, tombstone photographs, historical photo albums, letters and pamphlets.
Photo identifications may be incomplete. The burial-permit project described here was work for the historical society, not proof the library holds the originals.
Bound Benzie Banner and Record Patriot volumes extend back to 1888. A linked county newspaper archive provides digital access.
A starting year does not establish continuous holdings. Check specific issues; no invented end date is used.
Digitized recordings and transcriptions preserve logging recollections, chiefly concerning the 1890s through 1916, with some earlier memories.
These are retrospective accounts, not employment lists. The date span describes remembered events, not recording dates.
The library hosts a keyword-searchable local newspaper archive with an issue index and papers dating from 1888.
OCR misses names; the current library page supplies no complete title-by-title end dates.
Give the repository the locality, year, collection and specific question. Ask about the relevant volume or folder, gaps, access restrictions and copying costs. Save the citation and record what you searched, including searches with no result.
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Suggest a correction or collectionWatch the Short. Open the protocol. Follow the evidence.