If you own any Emmet County books or resource materials and will do look-ups, please let Denise Frederick know. As you can see, volunteers are needed!!

Feel free to request a look-up from the following resources. Just click on the highlighted email address and fill in the subject line with the appropriate title of the book.

If you request a lookup, please thank your volunteer for their time.

The Fair Use copyright policy allows our lookup volunteers to do minimal look ups on copyrighted publications. Please don't abuse this privilege by asking for more. If you find that a publication has more information than a look-up can provide, your local bookstore should be able to order the book for you.

• Harbor Springs Rampage Yearbooks Leslie Bagwell will do look-ups for the years: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, and the Centennial with senior pictures and names from 1887 through 1986.
• Readmond Township Cemetery on State Rd. or Island View Cemetery on Island View Rd. Elizabeth Milne will provide look-ups for these two cemeteries. Please provide name.
• "GREENWOOD Cemetery & St FRANCIS Cemetery" Karl Crawford, Director of the Greenwood Cemetery, will do look-ups from their extensive cemetery database. Please provide name.
• "HARBOR SPRINGS a COLLECTION of HISTORICAL ESSAYS" Please check this page for a listing of surnames that are located in the book. This lookup is provided by Mila Swartout-Powell. Please provide full name and approx. dates.
• YESTERDAY'S PEOPLE REVISITED, written by Raymond Kalbfleisch with lookups done by Mila Swartout-Powell. It is a chronology of northern Emmet County and its people spanning a time frame from the 1800's to the mid 1900's. Indexed.
• THE HISTORY OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND ITS PEOPLE by Perry F. Powers (Published in 1912), including people of EMMET County. This is a book with lookups done by Lyn BLAKE Schwartz. If you are inquisitive about a name please ask specific questions. Although the information included is brief, the books contained detailed accounts of each person including their origin, parents, children, spouses names, etc. Very interesting reading. Please contact Lyn for additional information and she will be happy to type as much of the information as she feels would be of interest to you. If you are anxious to have her check on a name, she will see if the name is in the index. Most of the people are prominent leaders in the communtity during that time period such as: postmasters, war heros, lawyers, judges, business owners, etc.
• PETOSKEY CITY DIRECTORY for 1941. A city directory is similar to a phonebook, except that these books usually contain family member information, too. This lookup is provided by Brenda Wolfgram Moore. Please place "1941 Petoskey City Directory" in the subject line of your email.
• PETOSKEY CITY DIRECTORY for 1899. This lookup is provided by Denny McCullough. Place "1899, Petoskey City Directory" in the subject line of your email.
• EMMET COUNTY 1902 PLAT MAP Farmers' Directory & Patrons' Directory. This lookup is provided by Denny McCullough. Place "Emmet County, MI 1902 Plat Map" in the subject line of your email.
• EMMET COUNTY 1902 PLAT MAP Farmers' Directory & Patrons' Directory. This lookup is provided by Mila Swartout-Powell. Place "Emmet County, MI 1902 Plat Map" in the subject line of your email.
• PETOSKEY CITY and EMMET COUNTY DIRECTORIES for 1903, 1910-1925, 1928, 1930, 1935, 1941, 1944, 1946, 1949.
  A city directory is similar to a phonebook, except that these books usually contain family member information, too. This lookup is provided by Denny McCullough. Please place the appropriate year and version in the subject line of your email.
• CARP LAKE TOWNSHIP SCHOOL in Levering, Emmet County, MI. Please send your queries about the names, dates and places to Hazel Hartung Colburn. There are other little bits of information on some of the people and students, as well as teacher's contracts. Items include:
  • Student census: names and ages 1883-1901
  • Names of School Board officials 1882-1901
  • Names extracted from Account of Expenses and reason 1882-1902
  

• If you have resource information regarding Emmet County please contact Denise. Maybe you have in your possession a family history book, or church records, cemetery information or soldier's letters from one of the wars. Please email me with what you have and I can either give the information its own page or you can do lookups for others who are seeking information about their Emmet County ancestor.

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