FlintGenealogical Society
Flint Genealogical Society
Serving Flint and Genesee County
Hands Across The Generations
The Old Mill - Goodrich. MI
Join or Renew FGS membership
 
2026 FGS form to print out.
 
 
 
The Flint Genealogical Society's
 
Next meeting will be: 
 
November 4, 2025      at     6 pm*
at the
624 E. Kearsley St., Flint, MI 48503
 
*  Note time changed to 6 pm.
 
 
 
 
Intead of a Speaker we will tour:
The Whaley House.
 
 
 
*  Note time changed to 6 pm.
 
 
Whaley
 
 
 
( * Info updated on October 28, 2025 )
 
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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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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
 
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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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December 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 December 2025 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...
January 6th
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 January 2026 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...
February 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    TBA.                                          Topic will be TBA.       See the February 2026 newsletter for more info. Visitors are always welcome.     ...