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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.
Arrange an appointment with beth@marquettehistory.org or 906-226-3571 at 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette. Describe the name, locality and collection so staff can prepare material.
Repository information · Map position sourceAt 217 N. Front Street, use the Local History Research Room during its Wednesday noon–4 drop-in period, or ask reference staff to retrieve material whenever the library is open. Contact refdesk@pwpl.info. Follow the library’s links to UPLINK for online material.
Repository information · Map position sourceBrowse the digital collection through NMU's library guide. For physical materials, contact archives@nmu.edu with the mine, locality and period before planning a visit to 228 Harden Hall. NMU's construction notice warns that box retrieval may be slower and collections may sometimes be inaccessible. Confirm current access and request needed boxes ahead. UPLINK also hosts other organizations' collections, so use each item's contributing repository rather than assuming NMU holds every original.
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.
Marquette burial/removal permits span 1889–1932. Church holdings include St. John’s Catholic marriages, 1872–1899, and St. Paul’s Episcopal marriages/burials, 1867–1875. Chase interviews record pioneer recollections from the 1920s.
Church coverage is parish-specific. Interviews are retrospective accounts, not contemporaneous proof of every remembered event.
A mine-fatality index starts in the 1860s; mine-employment records survive for only some companies. A separate World War II article index covers 1940–1946.
Ask which mine and years survive. Neither resource lists every employee or servicemember.
The library links extant directories, 1873–2005, and the Mining Journal digital collection, 1868–February 1989. Its microfilm listing extends to 2019.
Extant directories are not annual coverage. Digital and microfilm endpoints differ. UPLINK blocked automated retrieval during verification, so check the linked viewer before relying on remote access.
The local-history room lists the Wesley Perron Railroad Collection, Bennett Maritime Collection, McClintock Darter-Dace Naval Collection, maps, yearbooks and local people/subject indexes.
Series dates require an item-level check. The Marquette County Genealogy Society collection moved out in August 2022; do not direct researchers here for that society’s collection.
NMU’s current library guide identifies a Cleveland-Cliffs digital collection of company annual reports, maps, plans and photographs documenting nineteenth- and twentieth-century iron mining. These can explain how a mine, worksite or company community changed.
Company reports supply industrial and place context, not a complete employee record series. No person-level employment or exact annual coverage is claimed from the overview.
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 Marquette 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: 1889–1932.
Arrange an appointment with beth@marquettehistory.org or 906-226-3571 at 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette. Describe the name, locality and collection so staff can prepare material.
Keep in mind: Church coverage is parish-specific. Interviews are retrospective accounts, not contemporaneous proof of every remembered event.
Listed years: 1872–1899.
Arrange an appointment with beth@marquettehistory.org or 906-226-3571 at 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette. Describe the name, locality and collection so staff can prepare material.
Keep in mind: Church coverage is parish-specific. Interviews are retrospective accounts, not contemporaneous proof of every remembered event.
Listed years: 1867–1875.
Arrange an appointment with beth@marquettehistory.org or 906-226-3571 at 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette. Describe the name, locality and collection so staff can prepare material.
Keep in mind: Church coverage is parish-specific. Interviews are retrospective accounts, not contemporaneous proof of every remembered event.
Listed years: 1940–1946.
Arrange an appointment with beth@marquettehistory.org or 906-226-3571 at 145 W. Spring Street, Marquette. Describe the name, locality and collection so staff can prepare material.
Keep in mind: Ask which mine and years survive. Neither resource lists every employee or servicemember.
Listed years: 1873–2005.
At 217 N. Front Street, use the Local History Research Room during its Wednesday noon–4 drop-in period, or ask reference staff to retrieve material whenever the library is open. Contact refdesk@pwpl.info. Follow the library’s links to UPLINK for online material.
Keep in mind: Extant directories are not annual coverage. Digital and microfilm endpoints differ. UPLINK blocked automated retrieval during verification, so check the linked viewer before relying on remote access.
Listed years: 1868–1989.
At 217 N. Front Street, use the Local History Research Room during its Wednesday noon–4 drop-in period, or ask reference staff to retrieve material whenever the library is open. Contact refdesk@pwpl.info. Follow the library’s links to UPLINK for online material.
Keep in mind: Extant directories are not annual coverage. Digital and microfilm endpoints differ. UPLINK blocked automated retrieval during verification, so check the linked viewer before relying on remote access.
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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