Settlement of Westphalia: A Brief OverviewFather Kopp's List of Early SettlersNOTE: Although we've suspended genealogy research requests, if you want help identifying people or information, please post it on our Facebook page with your question and we will share it with our followers.
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Genealogy research can be a daunting job with so many options of where to begin. Look over the links below and see where they take you.
Bureau of Land Management (United States Department of the Interior) - search for purchase patents from the land office. See signatures of your ancestors and get dates for specific purchases. Remember that at the time of settlement, the nearest land office was in Ionia. Clinton County News Archives from 1966 - 1976 Clinton County Cemetery locations and information DeWitt Library - Has links to over thirty websites - many of them local sources - to birth, death, census, marriage, Civil War records, newspapers, and many others Find A Grave - Search by last name, cemetery name, etc.; find pictures of grave stones; some have additional documents and pictures Genealogists of Clinton County - various vital records, school information - including yearbooks History of Shiawassee and Clinton Counties, Michigan Ionia County MIGen Web: Michigan Genealogy on the Web Library of Michigan and Archives of Michigan - information about their resources and some links MeL - Michigan eLibrary - use your driver's license number or a library card number to access census records for free MIGenWeb - Michigan genealogy information online, part of USGenWeb Saint Joseph Cemetery, Pewamo Database - includes pictures of gravestones Seeking Michigan - tips for research, events, pictures, maps, death and Civil War records Saint Mary Cemetery, Westphalia Database from the DeWitt Library, created by Dianne Schafer in 1999 Saint Mary Cemetery, Westphalia: beginning of a project; includes some pictures Schafer, Johann Joseph - group sheet |
