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The Flint Genealogical Society's
 
Next meeting will be: 
 
November 12, 2024      at     7 pm
at the
Burton Senior Center.
3410 S. Grand Traverse St., Burton, MI 48529
 
* Note: The meeting will be the second Tuesday of November.
 
 
 
Our Speaker will be:
Derek Blount.
 
 
Topic will be:
"Haul Away Joe!"
Finding the Great Lakes Mariners
 
 
 
 
 
Blount
Derek J. Blount is a professional genealogist.  He has worked for 37 years on his family genealogy traveling America, Canada and United Kingdom gathering records, visiting cemeteries and churches.  Derek was born in England and specializes in research in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth nations.  He holds a B.S. degree from Oakland University and has completed course work at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburg.  He has lectured on numerous genealogy subjects for the past 12 years to many of the Michigan Genealogical Societies.  He is the past Vice President of the Oakland County Genealogical Society and is also on the Board of the Detroit Society for Genealogical Research.  Derek also holds memberships in the Irish Genealogical Society of Michigan and the Welsh American Genealogical Society.  He holds memberships in the Association of Genealogical Professionals and the Society of Genealogists in London.
 
 
 
 
( * Info updated on November 6, 2024 )
 
 
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William Stanley Fickel
B:  May 1880
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Annual Reports: Supplemental Documents for Family History Research - Virtual Program

Thursday - December 5, 2024     6:30 PM,  Zoom
Governments, businesses, and a variety of other organizations produce annual reports that describe the activities of the entities throughout the preceding year. These reports provide vital information for genealogical researchers when investigating the greater context of the lives of their ancestors. Learn more about these useful documents and see examples from the collections of the Library of Michigan.

 

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Cemetery Research with the Library of Michigan

( was on Zoom - Thursday - May 2, 2024 )  Zoom

If you missed it, like I did, you can watch the recording on their

Facebook page.
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Find the full schedule of 2024 programs, registration information, and recordings

of past sessions at Michigan.gov/LMPublicPrograms.

 
 
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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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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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         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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