GENEALOGY ROOM

 

Location

Wirt Library-2nd Floor

500 Center Ave.

Bay City, Michigan

 

Library Hours

Sun.             1:00pm-5:00pm

Mon.-Thu. 10:00am-8:00pm

Fri.-Sat.       9:00am-5:00pm

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BCGS Volunteer Hours

Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat 1:00pm-4:00pm

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What is in the Genealogy Room

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Equipment

4 Microfilm machines

4 Computers for genealogy research (Ancestry Library Edition, Fold 3, My Heritage Library Edition)

 

Newspapers

Bay City Times Database 1889-1945-Computers

Bay City (1857-2018)-Microfilm

Pinconning (1906-2010)-Microfilm

Bangor (1960-Jun, 1964)-Microfilm

 

Directories-Books

Bay City (1922-1996) Bay County (1997-2019)

 

Directories-Microfilm

Bay City Directories 1866-67 to 1996. (Early years include separate listings for the Villages of Salzburg, Wenona and Banks, which became West Bay City in 1877 and merged with Bay City in 1906)

 

Deaths

Bay County Death Index by Name 1914-2009

Bay County Deaths 1867-1874

Bay County Deaths 1871-1880

Bay County Deaths 1881-1886

Bay County Deaths 1887-1891

Bay County Death Certificates 1897-1920 (not a complete collection)

Bay County Every Name Death Records Index 1867-1892 (Part of 1893)

Hyatt-Ewald Funeral Home Records 1876-2007

 

Marriages

Bay County Marriage Index by Bride    1857-2007

Bay County Marriage Index by Groom 1857-2007

Bay County Marriage Transcriptions     1857-1920

Bay County Marriage Transcriptions     1923-1926

Bay County Marriage Transcriptions     1928-1932

 

Births

Bay County Birth Record Transcriptions 1868-1878

 

Other

All of the materials listed on the Publications Page, which includes Cemetery and Obituary Indexes

Obituaries-Bay County Civil War Veterans

Obituary index: 1938-June 1950, 1976-Apr 1992 (Card file).

Records from other Counties, States, and Countries-Books