FlintGenealogical Society
Flint Genealogical Society
Serving Flint and Genesee County
Hands Across The Generations
Linden School 1871 - 2001
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2024 FGS form to print out.
 
 
 
 
 
The Flint Genealogical Society's
 
Next meeting will be: 
 
April 2, 2024      at     7 pm
at the
Burton Senior Center.
3410 S. Grand Traverse St., Burton, MI 48529
 
 
 
 
Our Speaker will be:
Rozlyn Kelly.
 
 
Topic will be:
Michigan Roots:
African American Migration in Michigan.
The presentation discusses the migration of Blacks to Michigan in the mid-1880s, before the Great Migration from the south, with specific examples in Marquette, Midland, and Detroit.
 
 
 
Kelly
 
 
 
 
 
 
( * Info updated on March 6, 2024 )
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Can you guess Where in
Genesee County, MI this is ?
 
Where in GC
Your clues are:
1.  In Flint
2.  Above door says "Stanton"
( And I don't think that I can give anymore clues without giving you the address? )
 
We will have this photo on here until midnight EST on April 2, 2024.
All correct answers received by that time will be entered into a
drawing for 1st, 2nd & 3rd prizes.
The prizes will be announced later.
 
 
email your answer to
(be sure to include your name and address, in case you win one of the prizes).
 
 
 
 
To see the winners of the previous contest ( Click here ).
 
 
 
 
 
 
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LibraryofMichigan
 
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Female Ancestors: Finding Women in Family and Local History - Virtual Program

March 7, 2024     6:30PM - 7:30PMZoom
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Find the full schedule of 2024 programs, registration information, and recordings

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FS Photo
 
 
 
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Why Do People Keep Destroying This Headstone?
Dime Store Adventures
 
 
 
 
Warren Gibbs
died by arsenic poison
March 23, 1860
 
 
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NightforNotables
 
Night for Notables Celebration!
April 20, 2024 at the Library of Michigan.
$ 75 In-Person Attendee.
 
 
 
 
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Michiganology
Probate
 
Probate Court Research $10
 
 
 
 
The above link was sent in by Trudy Krueger.
FGS member since 3/17/1998
 
 
 
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FGS totebag    $ 15
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Familysearch
 
 
 
 
 
 
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         Genesee
 
 
 
 
 
Jacob Smith, a Canadian-born German, and his Chippewa wife opened a trading post in 1819 where Flint is now located, then the site was called Grand Traverse or "the great crossing". Jacob Stevens, a farmer from New York state became the first settler in what then called Flint River in 1825.  Grand Blanc School - Fall of 1912
Genesee was organized as a county under an act of the Legislature, approved March 8, 1836, which provided "that the county of Genesee shall be organized, and the inhabitants thereof entitled to all the rights and privileges to which, by law, the inhabitants of the other counties of this State are entitled."
The county seat of Genesee county is Flint.
 
 
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Find a Grave
 
Cronk
 
Cronk Cemetery
Also known as West Flint Cemetery
Beecher Road, Flint Township, Genesee County, Michigan, USA
 
 
I had asked our FGS member Carol Cronk Cole
if this cemetery was named for someone in her family.
She said YES, It was named for James Cronk.
 
Cronk
 
1777 - 13 Sep 1831
 
Carol also wrote:
It has long been my suspicion that the immediate need for that cemetery may have been the fact that James Cronk (1777-13 Oct 1831) died 3 days after his initial arrival in Flint.  He is buried in that cemetery, although I suspect that the stone is not standing.  Last time I was there it was not, and I suspect no one has done anything about that since.  If you could get me in touch with someone who could get that stone standing again I'd like to do that. I have pictures of the stone when it was standing and as it was when I last saw it.  Whether James Cronk's burial is the oldest or first in the cemetery, I don't know.
 
 
 
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April 2nd
Flint Genealogical Society Meeting
  FGS Monthly Meeting,  will be at the   Burton Senior Center 3410 S Grand Traverse St., Burton, MI   48529     Our speaker will be    Rozlyn Kelly.                                          Topic will be Michigan Roots: African American Migration in Michigan. The presentation discusses the migration of Blacks to Michigan in ...
May 7th
Flint Genealogical Society Meeting
  FGS Monthly Meeting,  will be at the   Burton Senior Center 3410 S Grand Traverse St., Burton, MI   48529     Our speaker will be    TBA.                                          Topic will be TBA.       See the May 2024 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...
June 4th
Flint Genealogical Society Meeting
  FGS Monthly Meeting,  will be at the   Burton Senior Center 3410 S Grand Traverse St., Burton, MI   48529     Our speaker will be    TBA.                                          Topic will be TBA.       See the May 2024 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...