Genealogy Resources

For questions that can be answered with short, factual responses.

Obituaries and Vital Records

• Obituaries and Vital Records

Databases

• Ancestry Library Edition – Genealogy database with census, birth, marriage, death records and more.
  Library use only
• HeritageQuest – Genealogy database containing census information, a digitized Genealogy and Local History Collection, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) and much more.

      Requires a library card for access outside of the library

Library Events

• History

Community Resources

• Ingham County Genealogical Society 
• Mid-Michigan Genealogical Society
• Lansing Area African American Genealogy Society          
      More Community Resources

Items from our Collection

• Books on Genealogy

Selected Magazines

• Ancestry

Websites

• Lansing Michigan Family History Center  (LDS) 431 E Saginaw St East Lansing, MI  517.332.2932‎
• Ellis Island On-line – Access to immigration records from Ellis Island New York.
• FamilySearch – Access to the genealogical resources gathered by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
• Ingham County MIGenWeb – Part of the USGen Web project.
• Library of Michigan Genealogy Resources – Information about the Library of Michigan's extensive genealogy resources.
• MIGenWeb – Resources in Michigan to search for family history.