Materials on file at the Court House

Register of Deeds Office

  • Index to maps and plans

  • Plat restrictions

  • Plat books from 1975

  • Mortgage and index from 1872

  • Deeds and index from 1867

  • Tax notices from 4 December, 1905

  • Sheriff's deeds from 1880

  • State deeds from 1897

  • Tax liens from 1926

  • Grantor and grantee index from 1890

  • Township maps

  • County Survey's from 1877

Naturalization

  • Intention Petitions beginning 1875

  • Petitions from 1907

  • Records & index from 1894

Records Stored for Courts

  • Circuit Court Cases

  • Criminal Cases

  • Chancery records and index

Records stored for County Clerk

  • Assumed names certificates and Co-Partnerships from 1950

  • Notaries public registry from July 1969

  • Concealed weapons applications from 1983

County Clerk's Office

  • Birth index and records from 1875

  • Marriage index and records from 1887

  • Death index and records from 1875

  • Divorce records (part of Civil Court records)

  • Assumed names and Co-Partnerships from 1950

  • Notaries Public Registry from July 1969

  • Concealed weapons application from 1983

  • Some articles of incorporation

Probate Court Clerk's Office

  • Guardianship records from 1876

  • Probate Records from 1876

 Found at the Otsego County Library

Reference Sections

  • Genealogists' Address Book
  • Parishes of Canada
  • D.A.R. Patriot Index - Vol. 3
  • Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Index (Civil War)
  • Michigan Surname Index - Vol. 2 (Research in Michigan)
  • All Michigan Printed Census Indexes - 1710 - 1870
  • Printed Massachusetts Census of 1790

Vertical Files

  • Otsego County Naturalization Records Index
  • Otsego County 1880 Census (Alphabetical)
  • Otsego County 1890 Census (Alphabetical)
  • Gaylord Fact Finders' Surnames List
  • Otsego County Cemetery Head-stone (County-wide)
  • Otsego County Historical Society Records

Micro-film (bottom drawer of micro-film cabinet)

  • Otsego County Herald-Times from January 2, 1903 to December 7, 1995
  • Entire 1890 Michigan Census - Veteran Schedule
  • Otsego County Birth and Deaths (Index and Records) from 1875 to 1914
  • Otsego County Census from 1880 to 1920

Located in back-room

  • Historic Michigan - 3 Vol.
  • History of Northern Michigan - 3 Vol.
  • Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection - 40 Vol.
  • Michigan History Publications - from March, 1952
  • Michigan and the Civil War Years

 

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