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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.
Follow the library’s Avalanche Archive link to Internet Archive; ask library staff if an issue is missing or difficult to read.
Repository information · Map position sourceVisit the museums next to Lovells Township Hall during their posted late-April through late-September season, or request an appointment. Admission is free.
Repository information · Map position sourceContact the Grayling museum with a precise person, business or subject request. The site lists Friday and Saturday opening and closure for the season on October 1.
Repository information · Map position sourceThese originals are held in Lansing, outside this county. Contact Archives staff with the record group before travel or a copy request.
Repository informationCounty 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 3, 2026.
The Michigan library links an Avalanche Archive for searching local newspaper issues. Use school events, local notices and neighborhood reporting alongside vital-record research.
A publication’s lifespan is not the digitized collection’s coverage. No continuous issue range was verified; inspect the issue date and page image, not only OCR.
The former Kellogg School, built in 1907, houses township history. The society also offers Teachers of Lovells material, history videos and fishing-history exhibits.
1907 dates the building, not a surviving register series. Ask which teacher photographs, school documents or local-history files can be consulted and copied.
Museum documents, artifacts and historical photographs address Crawford County people, buildings and industries, including the Au Sable River, fish hatchery and Camp Grayling.
Exhibits do not imply an indexed personnel archive or complete collection. Confirm research access and reproduction arrangements separately.
The county guide lists Rural Property Inventory, 1936–1942 (RG 72-76), and administrators’ estate sales, 1881–1903 (RG 80-127).
Dates describe series coverage, not uninterrupted annual records or all residents. Estate sales are a specific probate record type.
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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Use these dated holdings to choose a next search. This is a selection of cataloged collections, not a complete inventory of Crawford County records.
A range is a lead, not a guarantee. Bars show the dates stated by the cited catalog or inventory. They do not establish uninterrupted coverage, complete reporting or online image access. Unmarked years mean not represented in this selection, not that records were destroyed. Indexes and abstracts still need to be followed to the underlying record.
Listed years: 1936–1942.
Request the appropriate record group and locality from Archives of Michigan in Lansing before visiting or ordering copies.
Keep in mind: Broad inventory span; confirm township and parcel.
Listed years: 1881–1903.
Request the appropriate record group and locality from Archives of Michigan in Lansing before visiting or ordering copies.
Keep in mind: Specific estate-sale records, not all probate cases.
Confirm the historical jurisdiction as well as the date. A record may be held outside today’s county, and an inventory’s ending year does not mean recordkeeping stopped.
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