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Indexed Data

As of 22 May 2008

For the date of the most recently input Kalamazoo Gazette, please inquire at the Local History Room Desk.

Kalamazoo Gazette

1969-2008

  • Complete subjects and personal names (except Circuit Court sentencings and public notices, which begin in 1984). 1968 is in progress.

1960-1968

  • Births, deaths, marriage licenses, divorces, engagements, weddings, wedding anniversaries, obituaries, selected other personal names, and some subjects

1940-1959

  • Weddings and obituaries, selected other names, no subjects

1938-1939

  • Obituaries only. 1937 in progress

1857-1888, 1890, 1891

  • Obituaries only (only a few exist for 1863 & 1864, none for 1865). 1889 is in progress.

1834-1856

  • Complete personal names. Complete subject index available on microfilm.

Other area newspapers

Climax Cereal

  • 1900-11 July 1912 selected names

Climax Crescent

  • 1913 in progress

Vicksburg Commercial

  • 19 April 1879 – 26 Aug 1879 obituaries only  

Local Magazines

Applause

Builder/Architect 

Business Digest/Insight 

Business Direct 

Encore 

Greater Guide

Guide 

Kalamazoo Magazine 

Kalamazoo Review 

MiBizSouthwest 

Museography

Welcome Home 

Local History Books and Files

American Biographical History..., 1878

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

American Women, 1937-1938

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

American Women, 1939-1940

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

Art Work of City of Kalamazoo, 1894

Artists in Michigan, 1900-1976

Bench and Bar of Michigan, 1897

Bibliography of Michigan Authors, by M. K. Goodrich, 1928

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1989

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

Biographical Sketches: Recollections of the Earliest Days and Pioneers of Albion, Michigan...

  • (selected names only)

A chronological souvenir of St. Luke's Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1903

Compendium of History and Biography of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, by David Fisher, 1906

Cyclopedia of Michigan..., 1890

Directory of Michigan Artists, 1997 I & II

Educators of Michigan, 1900

Emancipated Spirits: Portraits of Kalamazoo College Women, 1983

Eminent and Interesting Albionians, 1955

  • (selected names only)

First Ladies of Michigan, 1994

Guide to Manuscripts in the Bentley Historical Library

  • (selected names only)

Historic Women of Michigan, 1987

Historical Catalogue of the Students of Kalamazoo College and of Kalamazoo Theological Seminary, 1851-1902.

Historical Directory, by Robert E. Meader, c.1945

History of Allegan and Barry Counties,... 1880

History of Calhoun County, Michigan, 1877

History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1880

History of Van Buren County, Michigan, by O. W. Rowland, 1912 (vol. 2)

History Room Name File

History Room Photograph File

History Room Pictures in Books Index

  • (personal names only)

History Room Scrapbooks: Art, Authors, Biography, Famous Visitors, Historic Sites, Military Service, WMU Personnel, and World War, 1939-1945 

History Room Subject File

An Honor Roll Containing a Pictorial Record of the War Service of the Men and Women of Kalamazoo County, 1917-1918-1919 

Illustrated Atlas of Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1890

Kalamazoo Academy of Medicine: Bicentennial Program and Other Papers, 1976

Kalamazoo College Index, 1917 (yearbook)

Kalamazoo County in Historic Michigan, by George N. Fuller, 1928

Kalamazoo County Probate Records, 1831-1857

Kalamazoo Gazette, Centennial Edition, 1937

Kalamazoo high school and college yearbooks in progress

Kalamazoo Illustrated, 1892

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts local artist files

Kalamazoo Leads the World, 1887

  • (selected names only)

Kalamazoo Lost and Found, by Houghton and O'Connor, 2001

Kalamazoo: Nineteenth-Century Homes in a Midwestern Village, by Peter J. Schmitt, photographed by Balthazar Korab, 1976

Kalamazoo, the Debt-Free City..., by Ford F. Rowe, 1939

Kalamazoo, the Place Behind the Products, 1981 and 1998 editions (selected names and subjects)

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR

  • (Kalamazoo County members only)

Livingstone's History of the Republican Party..., by William Livingstone, 1900

Medical Memoirs of 50 Years in Kalamazoo, by Rush McNair, 1938

Memorial reports and biographical sketches for Kalamazoo County from Michigan Pioneer Collections

Men of Michigan, 1904

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

Men of Progress, 1900

Michigan Authors, 3rd edition, 1993

Michigan Biographies..., 1924

Michigan Centennial History, 1939

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

Michigan Federation of Labor...Year Book, 1908

  • (Kalamazoo County entries only)

Michigan Manual

  • (Kalamazoo County legislators only)

Michigan Mortality Schedule, 1850

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

1860 Michigan Federal Mortality Schedule Abstracts

  • (Kalamazoo County names only)

Michigan Through the Centuries, 1955

Michigan Women First and Founders, 1992

Obituaries from the Schoolcraft Express, 1917-1972

Pictorial Souvenir of the Police Department, 1914

Picturesque Kalamazoo, Craig, 1890

  • (selected names only)

Picturesque Kalamazoo, Labadie, 1909

  • (selected names only)

Portrait and Biographical Record of Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren Counties, Michigan, 1892.

Standard Atlas of Kalamazoo County, 1910

  • (photographs of people only)

Stewards of the State, 1987

This Place Called Portage, by Larry Massie

  • (Heritage Firms and Organizations only)

Under the Oaks..., by William Stocking, 1904

Who's Who in Michigan, 1936

Women With a Vision, by Grace Potts, 1979

World War I & II records