Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Autograph in Swallow Collection, RG 72-147, B 311 F11

Niles Reserve

NILES RESERVE

G VII
B1
F34

In Legislative Matters.

National Good Roads Convention

NATIONAL GOOD ROADS CONVENTION – ROADS 1894-1910

GII

B35

F16

Approximately 30 pieces. ALS; LSS

Applications and recommendations for Michigan county citizens to attend convention.

National Youth Administration

See RG 65-22, Box 1.

Nicknames of Michigan (Michiganer and Wolverine State)

RESEARCH – NAMES – MICHIGANDER AND WOLVERINE

Source:

1. Michigan Alumnus Quarter. Rev. XLVIII 203-8 Spring.

2. Schoolcraft, H. R. Personal Memoirs of a residence of thirty years with the Indian Tribes. (Phil: 1851) p. 459. “One of the St. Igance Indians,…says that the Chippewa Indians called the Wolverine “Gween-guh-auga,” which means underground drummer. The animal is a great digger or burrower.”

3. “The Wolverine State” in MICHIGAN HISTORY, Vol. 27, p. 337-8. “The Wolverine” in Vol. 27, 581-589.

Natural Resources Commission Proceedings

NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS

RG 82-81	1929-1945
RG 66-2	1943-1959 1963-1964
RG 74-57	1962-1965
RG 75-60	1964-1969
RG 79-64	1974
RG 80-2	1975
RG 81-7	1976
RG 82-62	1977
RG 82-139	1978
RG 84-60	1979
RG 85-26	1980 1956-1961 printed
RG 86-8	1981
RG 87-94	1983-1985

Naturalization Records at National Archives and Records Administration – Great Lakes Region

Naturalization Records for U.S. District Courts in Michigan at the National Archives and Records Administration – Great Lakes Region; 7358 South Pulaski Road; Chicago, IL 60629-5898; Telephone 773-948-9001; Fax 773-948-9050

Eastern District – Detroit:

Petition Indexes, 1837-1991

Declarations of Intention, 1856-1989

Petitions, 1837-1991

Note that the Library of Michigan has index cards (but no records) for Post-1906 naturalizations in the Eastern District Court of Detroit.  These are on microfilm (ANSWER record: http://magic.msu.edu/record=b4863413a )

The Library of Michigan also has two printed index books for naturalization records in the Eastern District Court of Detroit.  These indexes were complied by Loretta Dennis Szucs.  (ANSWER records: http://magic.msu.edu/record=b4349950a ; http://magic.msu.edu/record=b4349951a )

Eastern District – Flint

Petition Indexes, 1965-1984

Petitions, 1965-1984

Western District – Grand Rapids

Petition Indexes, 1868-1962

Declarations of Intention, 1868-1978

Petitions, 1868-1972

Western District – Marquette

Petition Indexes, 1887-1915

Declarations of Intention, 1887-1909

Petitions, 1888-1915                                                           

For a complete list of NARA – Great Lakes Region naturalization holdings (one that includes records of all Great Lakes states), see this link:   http://www.archives.gov/great-lakes/finding-aids/naturalization-records.html  

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS, formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service), 425 I Street NW, Washington, DC 20536, telephone 800-375-5283 has duplicate copies of naturalization petitions created after September 26, 1906 in all federal, county and municipal courts.  USCIS (NOT the National Archives) also has alien registration files (“A” files) from 1940 onward. 

(The information in this post is current as of November 14, 2007.)  

Mason, Stevens T.

Stevens T. Mason papers are at the Bentley Historical Library and the Archives of Michigan (Record Group 44)

Link to Mason Burial Article

Buried in Detroit Capitol Park

Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collection, volume 35, page 32.

German Prisoners in Michigan (World War II)

See Michigan History Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1989 issue. 

Other secondary sources (not in the Archives of Michigan):

 MelCat turned up two graduate theses-

William R. Lowe.  Working for Eighty Cents a Day:  German Prisoners of War in Michigan, 1946.  Eastern Michigan thesis, 1995.  There is a copy in the Bayliss Public Library.

Philip J. Proud.  A Study of the Reeducation of German Prisoners of War at Fort Custer, Michigan, 1945-1946.  University of Michigan thesis, 1949.  There is a copy of this thesis in the Western Michigan University Archives. 

In the book Stalag Wisconsin (Oregon, Wis.:  Badger Books, Inc., 2002), author Betty Cowley notes on Page 5 that the National Archives does not have records of individual camps.  Cowley states that these records were destroyed in the 1950’s.  The National Archives might possibly have some general information, but apparently little to nothing on Michigan specifically.  (In researching Stalag Wisconsin, Cowley relied mostly on newspaper accounts, oral histories and a few secondary sources.)    

Ethnographic Map of Michigan

Title, “The Farm People of Michigan”Locaton: MC358.D10.F1Date, 1945Argus Number 10214