What's New!!   

03/28/2008:   Corrections made and broken links repaired.
03/21/2008:   Obituaries of Civil War Soldiers: Albert Boardmann, John W. Downs, Frank Jones,
Alfred Muzzall and Asa Rice transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen.
03/03/2008:   The genealogies of Willem Lievense, Jan Machiela and Albert Siersema are being replaced by
newer information from Jeff Machiela
02/29/2008:   Some additions and corrections made.
02/20/2008:   Some church records rearranged - see Churches category
02/19/2008:   Drenthe Presbyterian Church - Married Women and their Spouses and Baptisms, 1852-1886
02/19/2008:   Genealogies: Menne VanSloten,  Lewis C. Moomey, Robert Moon and Charles Mulliken
02/14/2008:   Wright Township Death Records: Abbreviations of Birthplaces,
List of Cemeteries in Numerical Order, List of Cemeteries in Alphabetical Order transcribed by ES.
02/07/2008:   Wright Township Death Records, 1897-1952 transcribed by ES.
02/07/2008:   Genealogies: Gray-Martindale Families; Hugh McMillan, McNitt-Place Families,
Samuel T. Stauffer and John T. Tyres transcribed by ES.
01/26/2008:   Coopersville Cemetery, 2007 transcribed by ES  
01/26/2008:   Holland Police, 1907 - 2007 transcribed by ES
01/23/2008:   Obituary: Myrtle Louise Dutcher contributed by Juan B. Rey
01/23/2008:   1897 Land Records updated
01/23/2008:   Biographies/Settlers new setup with a picture of William Ferry of Ferrysburg.
01/22/2008:   New URL for Michigan immigration information: www.migrations.org/mimig.html
To email: patrick@migrations.org
01/20/2008:   Dekker Huis Museum of Zeeland, Michigan information  
01/20/2008:   Civil War Obituaries: Eeltza Elgersma, Ozias Noble, Henry Spore and Levi Stamp
transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen - Joan, on her own, has taken this project of searching for the
Civil War veterans obituaries of Ottawa County.  It is a real asset to those looking for this kind of
information and her efforts are really appreciated.
01/06/2008:   Zeeland Historical Society's events for 2008
01/06/2008:   Civil War Soldiers obituaries: Edwin Washburn, Andrew J. Ward, and Fayette Eseltine
(including photo of tombstone) contributed by Joan Van Spronsen.
12/30/2007:   New link to the Early Kent County Marriage Index at WMGS.
12/24/2007:   1897 Ottawa County Land Owners transcribed by ES.
12/17/2007:   Holland Soldiers Union organized article contributed by Joan Van Spronsen
12/17/2007:   Civil War Obituaries: Harley Bement,  Adrian Wagemaker, Rev. James Cook,
William A. Smith, John Gunderman and Peter Gunst contributed by Joan Van Spronsen.
12/17/2007:   Genealogies contributed by Mary Trimbach: David Cox, Benjamin Emery, John Fletcher,
Hiram Goodwin, Phillip Ostrosser, Jonathan Tibbet and Carolus Tuttle families.
11/30/2007:   1897 Ottawa County Maps - Grand Haven and Holland maps added
11/25/2007:   Web sites of cities in Ottawa County (2007)
11/24/2007:   Genealogy of the Benjamin Stehouwer family of Lamont, Michigan
11/23/2007:   Graafschap Christian Reformed Church Museum 
11/23/2007:   Hudsonville Farmers Co-op, 90th Anniversary
11/23/2007:   2005 Sale of Hudsonville Christian Grade School, 2007 Summit School, Vriesland, sold
11/23/2007:   Obituaries: Guy VanderJagt, U. S. Congressman; Henrietta Cory  
11/23/2007:   Zeeland Free Methodist 100th Anniversary  
11/23/2007:   Biographies: Guy VanderJagt, U. S. Congressman, Thomas Hefferan, G. W. Haworth,
Dwight Cutler,  Rev. William Ferry, and Thomas Kirkby transcribed by ES
11/23/2007:   Beaverdam Christian Reformed Church, 125th Anniversary
11/14/2007:   Additional information added to the following cemeteries from recent obituaries: Allendale
Township Cemetery, Rusk Cemetery, Floral View Cemetery, Nunica Cemetery, Ottawa Center Cemetery,
Vriesland Cemetery - ES 
11/14/2007:   Grand Haven Township Cemetery Map
11/07/2007:   A list of executions by state.  It provides details including name, date, crime, county, etc.
Scroll down the yellow map to access Michigan information.  There are only 13 names listed for Michigan
but other states information might be useful.
Before The Needles:    http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/execution.htm
11/07/2007:   Olive Township Christmas Tour of Homes
11/07/2007:   Grand Haven Township Cemetery transcribed by ES      A - L       M - Z
09/30/2007:    Corrected links to Tallmadge Township cemeteries.
09/27/2007:    Civil War Obituary: George Lane transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
09/08/2007:    Article and photo on Holland's First Band submitted by Joan Van Spronsen
09/08/2007:    Village of Zeeland:  City Hall,   First Hospital,   Early Pioneers,   Early Hotel,
 View of Main Street about 1900.
09/08/2007:    View of old Eighth Street;  1908 Holland Mailmen 
09/08/2007:   Old Buildings of Holland: First State Bank, 1891; Episcopal Church Fire, 1886;
1883 City Hall; Cappon-Bertsch Leather Company; Citizens Transfer Company
09/08/2007:   Forest Grove Reformed Church Baptisms, 1884-1927 transcribed by Barb Jones.
09/07/2007:   Genealogies: Mainly Early Settlers from Crockery and Polkton Townships -
L - P: William Oliver, William Palen, M. L. Palmer, William Parkhurst, William Parrish, James Patchen,
Henry Pennoyer, Swan Peterson, John Pickett, Leman Pifer, Francis J. Plant, Henry Plant, E. R. Porter
Q - S: Walter Quigley, David Rice, Ephraim Richmond, Rollenhagen Brothers, Henry Roth, Samuel
Salter, Joseph Schmidt, Horace Scott, Peter Seba, Daniel Seget, John Seims, Rodney Seymour,
Orlando Shepard, William Smack, Henry Smant, Charles Somerset, Amos Sparks, Medad Spencer,
Daniel Spoon, Henry Stark, Peter Steinback, James Stone, Swan Swanson
T - V: Augustus W. Taylor, Isaac Tissue, Hosea Tracy, Thomas Upton, Mat Urbon, Samuel Van Etten,
Lambert VanderSwaag, Joss Verplanke, Martin Viebrock
W    Z:William Walker, Gottlieb Warnke, Charles Westover, Samuel Wickham, James Wildey
Horace Wood, Allen Wright
09/05/2007:   Genealogies: Mainly Early Settlers from Crockery and Polkton Townships -
A - B: Henry Ahrens, Gottlieb Aurich, Nicholas Baldus, Chancellor Barringer, William Bond, John Borchers, Charles Brown, Edward Julius Brown, Joseph Brown,
C - D: Charles Carpenter, Benjamin Chittenden, James Conley, Edward Cook, Jacob Cooper, Mikchael Czinder, John Davison, Peter, DeMull, Joseph Deremo, John Dillon, Chris Douck,
E - G: Jacob Easterly, John Eckhoff, George Eckles, Joseph Englert, Charles Erhorn, Henry Ernst,
Torrant Flanders, Hiel Fletcher, James Fosget, Franklin French, Martin Fritz, Louis Gallup, Charles Gibbs,
Johnathan Gleason, Oliver Gordon, Alfred Greene, Francis Green, Apollos Griswold,
H - K: Charles Hagon, Andrew Hale, John Hecksel, Charles Hinsley, Andrew Holmes, Peter Hunt, William Hunter, George Ickes, Orange Jubb, John Kary, Albert Kinney, Joseph Kiper, Barthold Klintworth, Henry Klintworth,
L - P: Asher Lane, Sidney Lawrence, Abraham LeJeune, Benjamin Martin, Daniel McMillan, Daniel Mead,
Otto Meinel, Bernard Mergener, Louis Merkins, George Moore, Henry Moore, Benjamin Murray,
and Daniel Nash transcribed by ES.
09/02/2007:   Obituary: Professor Augustus W. Taylor of Coopersville, Crockery Township.
08/31/2007:   Obituaries of Civil War Soldiers: Charles Bliss, John Douma, Blinn Dumas, George Haas,
Philo Henderson, Sabin Hutchins, Ezra Kirkbride, Hiram Knowlton, Racelas McClain, Charles Nichols,
Garrett See, John L. Spencer, Guilford Taylor and Elijah Walcott transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
08/14/2007:   Civil War soldiers obituaries: Jacob Brillhart and Henry C. Cooley transcribed by Joan
Van Spronsen.
07/27/2007:   Nunica Cemetery Records, 2006 by ES.
07/24/2007:   Genealogy of George and Sabra (Gleason) Glover of Canada and Ottawa County,
Michigan contributed by Beverly Edwards.
07/24/2007:   Photo of Civil War Veteran, William Rittenburg's tombstone in Allendale Cemetery by
Joan Van Spronsen.
07/24/2007:   Photos of tombstones of Spanish-American War Veterans at Pilgrim Home Cemetery
scanned by Joan Van Spronsen.
07/13/2007:   Allendale Township Cemetery, 2006 - A - G,  H - M,   N - S,   T - Z
07/13/2007:   Civil War Soldier Obituary: William Rittenburg  transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
07/13/2007:   Obituaries: Mrs. Harriet (Mazuzan) Parish and Mrs. Egberdina Kollen transcribed
by Joan Van Spronsen
07/01/2007:   Civil War Soldier Obituary: Madison Richards transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
06/22/2007:   Corrected obituary for Orris Buchanan.
06/18/2007:   Broken link fixed.
06/18/2007:   A listing of some events at the Olive Township Old Settlers/Sesquicentennial Picnic on
July 28th.
06/18/2007:   Civil War Obituary: William DeFouw and obituary of Cornelius Van der Veere, pioneer
from 1847 transcribed by Joan VanSpronsen.
06/16/1007:   Civil War Obituaries: William Ledeboer and Cpl. Andrew Thompson transcribed by Joan
Van Spronsen
06/16/2007:   Obituary of Andrew Thompson, fireman transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
06/16/2007:   Obituary of Henry DeKruif, businessman of City of Zeeland, transcribed by ES.
06/12/2007:   Obituary of Mrs. William VanEtte transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen.
06/12/2007:   Obituaries of Civil War Soldiers: Orris Buchanan, Captain Jay McCluer, and Elisha Mix
transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen. 
06/12/2007:   Civil War Soldiers burials in North Holland Cemetery transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
05/18/2007:   Noordeloos Cemetery the walking of the cemetery in 2004 has been combined with
earlier records to make this more complete.
05/17/2007:   Obituaries: Henry Grootenhuis, Herman Koning, Belgium Revolution; Helena
Grootenhuis and Henrietta Jansen transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
05/17/2007:   Civil War Obituaries: John Oggel, Henry Green, Henry L. Green and Henry Matrau
transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen 
05/17/2007:   Article on the 1871 Holland Fire contributed by Joan Van Spronsen
05/03/2007:   Civil War Obituaries: Henry Grootenhuis, Alonzo Brayman and the picture of
John Kramer transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
05/03/2007:   Van Raalte Post, 1934 - 50 Years transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen 
05/03/2007:   Organization and Some History of the Schools in Grand Haven,   Spring Lake,
Crockery,  Polkton,  Robinson and Olive Townships transcribed by Barb Jones 
05/03/2007:   Ferry School, Grand Haven, Teachers, 1913-1979 transcribed by ES
04/30/2007:   Civil War Burials in Lake Forest Cemetery, Grand Haven by ES
04/30/2007:   New Groningen Cemetery - additional information added
04/29/2007:   Corrections made on the Mailing Lists
04/29/2007:   Index to 1849 - 1902 Ottawa County Marriage Records by groom's name - ES
04/29/2007:   Obituaries: John B. McGinnis, Nelson W. Ogden and John Van Dyke, Civil War
soldiers - transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
04/27/2007:   Biography of Gerrit John Diekema, U. S. Representative of Michigan and U. S. Minister
to the Netherlands
04/21/2007:   Additional places to check for Obituaries
04/21/2007:   Some photos added to the Olive Township Historical Society site thanks to Sandy Karsten
of that society.
04/16/2007:   Corrections to the Schools index
04/16/2007:   The Getz Farm, 1910-1933, Holland Township transcribed by ES
04/15/2007:   1897 - Villages of Coopersville, Hudsonville-Jenison, Lamont, Nunica and Zeeland added.
04/13/2007:   1897 Blendon Township Map added
04/11/2007:   1897 Ottawa County Town and Township Plat Maps - not complete 
04/11/2007:   Albertus Christiaan Van Raalte, founder of Holland, Michigan
03/29/2007:   New links made to the Cemeteries of Ottawa County
03/25/2007:   Genealogies: Engelko Koolman Family;  Robert G. Johnston Family and
Jannes Everts Herssevoort/Hassevoort Family  
03/25/2007:   Obituary of Civil War Soldiers: Stephen G. Owens
03/24/2007:   New rules regarding Vital Records at the Ottawa County Clerk's office.
03/22/2007:   WWII West Michigan - 86 Soldiers Bodies Returned
03/20/2007:   Zeeland Historical Society's 2007 Scheduled Events
03/19/2007:   Louis DeKraker - Articles on his occupation as a butcher and Civil War Encampments
transcribed by Peggy Stempfly
03/19/2007:   Civil War Battle of Tebbs Bend and the 25th Michigan Infantry transcribed by Joan
Van Spronsen 
03/20/2007:   Civil War Soldiers Obituaries: Arend Brouwer, Gerrit Doesburg, Jacob O. Doesburg
Otto W. Doesburg, John P. Naber and George Souter transcribed by Joan Van Spronsen
03/19/2007:   Zeeland Historical Society 2007 Events


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