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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.
Contact the library about the newspaper date, microfilm reader and copy options before visiting 119 North Fourth Street. Scanning help is available at the circulation desk.
Repository information · Map position sourceBrowse the school directory and history indexes online. Follow photo links and use the index to identify the underlying book or record.
Repository informationThese 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 1, 2026.
The local-history collection includes Ogemaw County Herald microfilm beginning in 1923, cemetery and burial-plot information, plat books and local-family biographies.
The library does not state a closing year or a complete issue inventory. Do not infer unbroken newspaper coverage from the 1923 start.
Atherton School’s page links dated class photographs and transcribed pupil lists, including 1918–1919 and 1924–1926. Separate history pages index books on Churchill Township and other local communities.
Volunteer transcriptions and identifications are leads requiring comparison with originals. Dates are discontinuous. The school page explicitly notes sparse records and uncertain names; do not fill gaps.
West Branch Township Rural Property Inventory, 1935–1938, is identified as RG 2016-34.
This township series should not be conflated with the broader county Rural Property Inventory description for 1936–1942.
Rose City Bank records span 1913–1939 (RG 67-37). Superintendent of the Poor records include a journal, 1914–1922, and ledger, 1914–1923 (RG 2023-56).
Catalog spans do not show every customer or recipient. Bank and welfare records concern different activities and should be requested separately.
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 Ogemaw 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: 1910–1912, 1918–1919, 1924–1926, 1931, 1934–1941, 1943–1944, 1948, 1958–1959.
Browse the school directory and history indexes online. Follow photo links and use the index to identify the underlying book or record.
Keep in mind: Selected dated transcriptions and photographs only, with gaps. Some list only eighth-grade pupils. Approximate 1923/24 list intentionally excluded from automatic matching.
Listed years: 1935–1938.
Ask Archives of Michigan for the township series and parcel or owner detail needed; the records are held in Lansing.
Keep in mind: Township-specific, not countywide.
Listed years: 1913–1939.
Ask the archives about the specific volume, access conditions and copying before travel.
Keep in mind: Record-series span; customer inclusion unknown.
Listed years: 1914–1923.
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Keep in mind: Journal ends 1922; ledger extends to 1923. Not every recipient guaranteed.
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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