FlintGenealogical Society
Flint Genealogical Society
Serving Flint and Genesee County
Hands Across The Generations
Gundry Hall - Grand Blanc, MI
Join or Renew FGS membership
 
2026 FGS form to print out.
( click here )
 
Valentines
 
February 3, 2026      at     7 pm
* Due to a scheduling error our speaker tonight was: 
 
 
Our Speaker was:
Bradley Foster.
Sharp Funeral Homes
 
 
His Topic was:
Funerals and Funeral Homes.
His talk was very interesting.  He shared with us that embalming began around the time of the Civil War.  The first US President to be embalmed was Abraham Lincoln.
Foster
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Flint Genealogical Society's
 
Next meeting will be: 
 
March 3, 2026      at     7 pm
at the
Burton Senior Center.
3410 S Grand Traverse St, Burton, MI 48529
 
 
 
 
Our Speaker will be:
Janet Westhoff.
 
 
 
The Topic will be:
What? did Auntie die of?
 
JanetWesthoff
 
 
 
( * Info updated on February 3, 2026 )
 
 
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Michiganology
 
Michiganology
 
 
Search:
Death Certificates, 1897 - 1952
Michigan State Census, 1827 - 1894
World War I Collection
Naturalization Records
plus more ...
 
 
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The Lost Church Bells of World War II
 
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The Flint Genealogical Society 70th Anniversary
1956 - 2026
 
Mabel Mayer

Flint Genealogical Society's founder and

first president 1956 - 1958

Mabel Olive Watkins Mayer

She was born January 14, 1890 in Kansas.

She was the daughter of John Elias Watkins & Olive Rowena Chadwick.

She married Walter Cyrus Mayer on June 16, 1923 in Loring, Kansas.

She died on March 16, 1993 in Flint, Michigan at 103 yrs old.

She is buried in "Oak Hill Cemetery" in Kansas, USA.

Familysearch.org

Obituary - The Flint Journal 1993

Findagrave.com

 
 
 
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Michigan Roots: African American Migration in Michigan  Zoom

Thursday, February 5, 2026 - 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm
This 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.
Guest speaker: Roz Kelly.
 

 

 
 
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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 2026 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
Naturalization
 
Naturalization Research $20
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
Crestwood
 
 

Also known as Crestwood Memorial Gardens

2020 East Hill Road, Grand Blanc, Genesee County, Michigan, USA
 
 
 
 
Millard
 
Earl Millard
1927  †  2003
 
 
 
 
Perry
 
Geraldine Ann Schlosser Adams
1912 - 2001
 
 
 
 
 
Edna
 
Edna R Ahearn
1915 - 1987
 
 
Baker
 
Michael A Baker
1958 - 2001
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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March 3rd
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    Janet Westhoff.                                          Topic will be What? did Auntie die of?       See the March 2026 newsletter for more info. Visitors ...
April 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    Hillary Pine. From the DNR                                        Topic will be The CCC.       See the April 2026 newsletter for more info. Visitors are ...
May 5th
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    Richard Richardson.                                          Topic will be TBA.       See the May 2026 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.   ...