Ottawa County Court House

Grand Haven, Michigan

 

Washington Street
Grand Haven, Michigan

 (Dewey Hill
In the Background)

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Welcome to Ottawa County,
Michigan

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links to a variety of resources as well as places which
welcome your own data.

County Coordinator: Evelyn Sawyer
NEW - evlynsaw@comcast.net

Jan Cortez
StateCoordinator@MiGenWeb.Com  
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What's New!!   
  
02/05/2010:   1890 Special Schedule - Ottawa County Civil War Veterans transcribed by ES
01/31/2010:   Early photos of Olive Township
01/27/2010:   1916 Hudsonville Valedictorian and Salutatorian transcribed by ES
01/27/2010:   Forest Grove Station and the demise of the Interurban transcribed by ES
01/27/2010:   Georgetown Grange has new home - Canada Hills School transcribed by ES
01/27/2010:   Additional information on Hudsonville Reformed Church transcribed by ES
01/27/2010:   Marriage of Mary Jane Maxfield and Donald Nichols transcribed by ES
01/22/2010:   Photo of New Holland High School - River Avenue
01/10/2010:   1926 Photo of Coopersville Area Remaining Civil War Soldiers also listed under Coopersville Cemetery.
01/10/2010:   1926 Photo of Coopersville Area Remaining Civil War Soldiers scanned and transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
01/10/2010:   Bennett Cemetery, Chester Tp., Civil War soldiers gravestones - Daniel Alt and Charles Rockwell
01/05/2010:   Obituary: Orren Gregg Maxfield and  Simeon A. Snyder, Civil War Soldiers transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
01/05/2010:   Maplewood Cemetery - Obituaries and Tombstones for Civil War Soldiers and Families - James Cilley and
Harvillah Cooley and Tombstone for Frederick Oelker transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen 
01/03/2010:   McNitt Cemetery Records plus Civil War tombstones, Chester Township  
01/03/2010:   St. Francis Xavier Cemetery Records plus Civil War tombstones, Chester Township
12/26/2009:   Additional information from photos taken of the stones in Elmwood Cemetery, Tallmadge Township from
Pat McArthur
12/26/2009:   Brief History of Holland United Methodist Church transcribed by Barb Jones
12/25/2009:   Maplewood Cemetery - Obituary and Civil War Tombstone Photos of George Painter Corts
12/25/2009:   Early History of Bursley School, 1898 transcribed by ES 
12/25/2009:   Overisel Reformed Church, 1848-1906 transcribed by Barb Jones
12/12/2009:   Obituaries: John W. Kelly, William Nichols  Rufus Miller (plus photo of tombstone) and James Hedges; also included for James Hedges are a photo of his tombstone, his pension, and the gun he used in the Civil War transcribed and scanned by Joan Van Spronsen
11/29/2009:   Obituaries: Mrs. Liberty T. Beardsley and Mr. William Steen transcribed by ES.
11/29/2009:   Civil War tombstones for Maplewood Cemetery, Tallmadge Township
11/29/2009:   Civil War tombstones for Eastmanville Cemetery and Coopersville Cemetery - Polkton Township
NOTE: The scanned photos of the tombstones are linked to the person's name in the cemetery records.
I. E. - you would see John Doolittle's tombstone by going to the Eastmanville Cemetery and clicking on his name.
11/20/2009:   2008 Spring Lake Cemetery - West Section transcribed by ES
11/20/2009:   2008 Spring Lake Cemetery - East Section updated by ES
11/05/2009:   Lake Forest Cemetery - Civil War Soldiers Burials contributed by Chuck Harthy
11/05/2009:   Correction: Wright Township Land Owners, 1848-1858 was incorrectly identified at Tallmadge
Township Land Owners
11/05/2009:   Updated Genealogy of Thomas Koopman from the Netherlands to Georgetown Tp., Ottawa Co., MI
contributed by Joan Carlson   
11/05/2009:   Updated Genealogy of Gerrits-Gelder family from the Netherlands to Ottawa County, MI contributed
by Nick Posthumus of the Netherlands
10/24/2009:   Obituary for Dorothea A. Shaver contributed by Kathy Shaver Fisher
10/24/2009:   2009 Maplewood Cemetery Records transcribed by ES
10/05/2009:   Civil War Obituary: Frederick Oelker transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
10/04/2009:   Churches: Tallmadge Wesleyan Methodist, Spoonville Chapel, Conklin Reformed - ES
10/04/2009:   Obituaries: Benjamin Bonselaar, Elizabeth DenHerder, Bernard Gustav Knutson,
Gunhild Brynilsen Knutson, Guniel J. Knutson, Sophie Peterson Knutson, Chester Kamphuis, Jettie Lough,
William H. O'Connel, Maria Ybarra Silva, Lillian Westerhof Stephan, Mary Seery Wilson,
Villa Esther Seery Wilson contributed by Stine Kvistad
10/04/2009:   Obituaries of a number of people born in Holland, MI and died in other states contributed by Stine Kvistad.
10/04/2009:   Tallmadge Township Schools - 1873 District No. 3 Students, 1899 District No. 1-fractional;
Photos of Cross School, Star School, Marshall School and Lamont Christian School scanned and transcribed by ES
10/04/2009:   Map of St. Joseph Cemetery, Wright Township - ES
10/04/2009:   Genealogies: Nils Olsson and Marvin Herman Osborn contributed by Sandy Kluge

 What's New
2002,  2003,   2004,   2005,   2006,  2007,  2008,  2009, 2010


NEEDED VOLUNTEERS

Anyone having family genealogies, old photos of school classes, church events, local businesses; church anniversary booklets, organizations, with the history and membership or other records
that you feel would be appreciated by people doing genealogy research in Ottawa County; old township
records, etc. please contact me - 

Evelyn Sawyer - evlynsaw@comcast.net
 
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 About the The Michigan US GenWeb Volunteer Project

In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Michigan Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Michigan, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. 

At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. Brian and Terri Rene (DaVar) Howard have been responsible for Ottawa County from the summer of 1996 until the Spring of 2002.
Please contact the county coordinator, Evelyn Sawyer,  if you would like to contribute to this site
or volunteer to "Look-up" information for people.

You are welcome to contact the Ottawa County Coordinator at evlynsaw@comcast.net 
or the Michigan State Coordinator at StateCoordinator@MiGenWeb.com 

The Ottawa Co., MI GenWeb Page      

 


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