The Maxwell Room
Our Maxwell genealogy/family history room is available during all open hours of the library on a first come/first served basis. All public computers are available for use to search the newspapers and use Ancestry. The Maxwell room has a large table to spread out your research. If you would like to obtain information or copies, contact us by email at info@tamaracklibrary.org.
Library Genealogy Tools
Ancestry
Discover Your Family Stories — Your Ancestors Become More Than a Name. Historical Insights, Photos, Records, and More. Search for Your Ancestors, Build a Family Tree & More on Ancestry.
Family History: Library of Michigan
Explore resources like city and county histories, newspaper clippings, vital records, and cemetery transcripts, along with online databases like Black Life in America, Fold3 (military records), and Newspapers.com.
My Heritage
Family history/genealogy resource including more than 6 billion historical records from the United States, Europe, Latin American, and other regions. Please note: you can only access My Heritage while at the library.
Online Search Tools
Family Search: The largest genealogical organization in the world, operated by the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints.
Hathi: Digital Library with large selections of County information.
LOC.gov: has a large collection of maps.
Michiganology (has replaced Seeking Michigan): Family and local history records courtesy of the Archives of Michigan. Excellent for death records from the state of Michigan 1897–1952.
Collections at the Library
The Maxwell Room is dedicated to holding the library’s collection of local and regional history materials that are free for browsing. The items, if not too fragile, can be copied but not checked out. Contact the library if interested in copies of any of the references on this page.
PDF issues – digitized and fully searchable:
- Lakeview Enterprise 1894 – 2003 (some years missing)
- Lakeview Area News 2006 – present
- Coral News 1898 – 1943 (many missing issues)
Browse the partial obituary index from the Lakeview Enterprise:
- Chadwick’s Farm Atlas of Montcalm County, Michigan, 1913
- Standard Atlas of Montcalm County Michigan, 1921-
- Farm Ownership Plat Book of Isabella County, Michigan
- County Evolution in Michigan, 1790-1897
- Montcalm County Plat Book (Rockford Publishers), 1942, 1956, 1980, 1987, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020
- Mecosta County Plat Book (Rockford Publishers), 1972, 1978, 1988, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2015
- Coral Centennial, 1862-1962
- Morley Centennial, 1868-1969
- Richland Township Centennial, 1869-1969
- Stanton Centennial, 1863-1963
- Six Lakes Centennial Book, 1879-1979
- Breckenidge Centennial, 1861-1961
- A History of the Greater Greenville Area, 1844-1994
- Trufant History, 1987
- Early History of Owosso, 1969
- Newaygo County History and Biographies, 2006
- Souvenir of Lakeview, Michigan 1907
- Howard City, Michigan, 1868-1968
- Home Township Bicentennial, 1975
- Riverdale Centennial, 1874-1974
- Early Happenings of Six Lakes Area and Sumnerville, 1976
- Cowden Lake Church of Christ Centennial, 1874-1974
- History of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan, 1881
- Alpena County, Michigan, Complete History, 1876
- A Pioneer History of the Township of Brand Blanc, Genessee County, Michigan, 1878
- The Story of the Grand River, a Bicentennial History, 1975
- History of Montcalm County, Michigan, Dasef 1916 2 volumes
- Amble 1886-1986
- Edmore Centennial Book, 1878-1978
- Big Rapids, Michigan 1906
- History of Arcadia, 1980
- Douglass, A Michigan Township, 1982
- History of Caseville, 1960
- Pictorial History of the Lakeview/River Valley Areas, 1997
- Lakeview Quasquicentennial, 1867-1992
- Carson City Community Centennial, 1867-1967
- Lakeview Area Centennial, 1867-1967
- Michigan Cemetery Atlas
- Michigan Cemetery Source Book
- Cemetery Transcriptions for:
- Aetna township
- Hinton Township
- Altona
- Lakeview
- Cato Township
- West Pine
- Rustford
- Dickerson-Whitscell
- Hillcrest
- Lakeview High School 1927, 1937, 1940, 1949, 1951, 1957-1983, 1986-2006, 2008, 2010-2023.
- Lakeview Middle School Memories 1992 – 2014
- Montabella High School 1977, 1979
- Central Michigan University 1961, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1978, 1980
- Edmore Community Schools 1963
- Ernie and Agnes Wilson Scrapbook, 1910’s-1940’s
- Addie Dubois, 1930’s-1940’s
- Farm Journal Illustrated Directory of Montcalm county, 1917
- Merchants, Tradesmen and manufacturers Financial Condition for Montcalm County Michigan, 1902