FlintGenealogical Society
Flint Genealogical Society
Serving Flint and Genesee County
Hands Across The Generations
Fenton, MI
Join or Renew FGS membership
 
2025 FGS form to print out.
 
 
 
Habatchi
 
 
 
 
 
The Flint Genealogical Society's
Annual Dinner
was June 3, 2025    6 PM
Habachi Buffet
3022 S Linden Rd, Flint, MI 48507
 
 
 
 
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The Flint Genealogical Society's
 
Next meeting will be: 
 
September 2, 2025      at     7 pm
at the
Burton Senior Center.
3410 S. Grand Traverse St., Burton, MI 48529
 
 
 
 
Our Speaker will be:
TBA.
 
 
Topic will be:
TBA.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
( * Info updated on May 25, 2025 )
 
 
 
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LibraryofMichigan
 
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Vital Records Research at the Library of Michigan - Virtual Program

Thursday - July 10, 2025     6:30 PM,  Zoom
Vital records are one of the foundational resources used in family history research. Explore how these records have evolved in Michigan and where to find them. Discover what vital records are available through the Library of Michigan as well as alternative resources to use when a vital record is lost.

 

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Digitizing My Family Tree: Formats, Software, and Techniques - Virtual Program

Thursday - August 7, 2025     6:30 PM,  Zoom
Explore the digital options for saving your family history research. Explore the variety of desktop and web-based applications researchers can use for organizing their data. Review best practices for both using these applications and uploading digital scans of records to the software.

 

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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.
Watch This Program

...

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

of past sessions at Michigan.gov/LMPublicPrograms.

 
 
 
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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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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
 
 
 
Avondale
 
Avondale Cemetery

833 Chavez Dr., Flint, Genesee County, Michigan, USA
 
 
 
 
wolter
 
Mary Wolter
1852 † 1922
 
 
 
 
Perry
 
Esther Perry
 
died August 21, 1842
 
 
 
 
 
Charles
 
Charles A Norget
 
 
 
Mary
 
Mary E Jenkins Norget
 
 
stones
 
This is the side view of
Charles A Norget and
Mary E Jenkins Norget headstones.
Lake
 
Sadie B Lake
died June 19 1888
aged 16 years  2 months  12 days
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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September 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    TBA.                                          Topic will be TBA.       See the September 2025 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...
October 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 October 2025 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...
November 4th
Flint Genealogical Society Meeting
  FGS Monthly Meeting,  will be at the   Whaley House Museum 624 E Kearsley St, Flint, MI 48503-1909   https://www.whaleyhouse.com                                                        See the November 2025 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.         ...