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Free through your public library and available to use from home. HERITAGE QUEST Free through your public library and available to use from home.

Michigan Residents: MEL.og

H for Heritage Quest

Select Heritage Quest Online

Splash Screen is HOME

Search Screen

Search Census

Search Books

Search Books -- Publications

Search Books City Directories

Search Cemeteries

Search Military Records

Search Immigration Records

Search recent address records

Search SSDI

Search U.S. Serial Set

Search Freedman’s Bank Records

Search Photos

Search Maps (county boundary lines)

Sample Map… Michigan 1840

Search and ownership maps

Search for Withey

Where my GGGGrandfather was in 1864

Research Aids

Beginning Tip

Census Tip

Beyond the Basics Tip