Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Livingston County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Business Records
- Book of estrays (Genoa Township) · RG 93-881845 to 1890
- Estrays (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341864 to 1902
- Liquor applications (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341920 to 1936
- Register of estrays (Unadilla Township) · RG 2011-191835 to 1851
Cemetery Records
Court Records
- Chancery common rule books · RG 78-681847 to 1900
- Circuit court special motions book · RG 78-681842 to 1893
- Circuit court transcript and judgment book · RG 78-681841 to 1898
- Coroner’s docket · RG 78-681927 to 1949
- County court calendar · RG 78-681847 to 1851
- Justice of the Peace criminal dockets · RG 78-681885 to 1897 and from 1918 to 1933
- Justice of the Peace dockets · RG 78- 681838 to 1841 and from 1853 to 1905
- Justice of the Peace dockets (Howell Township) · RG 2014- 1341895 to 1914
- Justice of the Peace records · RG 78-681842 to 1897
- Justice of the Peace records (Unadilla Township) · RG 2011-191844 to 1860
- Record of damages to sheep by dogs (Green Oak Township) · RG 68-341879 to 1886
- Roster of petit & grand jurors (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341890 to 1914
Health Records
Land Records
- Chattel mortgages (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341868 to 1930
- Rural Property Inventory (Conway Township · RG 2023-431935 to 1945
- Rural Property Inventory (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341936
- Unpaid mortgages (Conway Township) · RG 2013-481880 to 1890
- Unpaid mortgages (Deerfield Township) · RG 2013-481880 to 1891
- Unpaid mortgages (Genoa Township) · RG 2013-481880 to 1890
- Unpaid mortgages (Handy Township) · RG 2013-481880 to 1891
- Unpaid mortgages (Hartland Township) · RG 2013-481880 to 1891
- Unpaid mortgages (Howell) · RG 2013-481939
- Unpaid mortgages (Iosco Township) · RG 2013-481879 to 1891
- Unpaid mortgages (Unadilla Township) · RG 2013-481929 to 1936
Military Records
Naturalization Records
- Certificate stubs · RG 2015-1221906 to 1925
- Declarations of Intention · RG 2015-1221871 to 1962
- Oaths and orders · RG 2015-1221896 to 1906
- Petition hearings / reviewed & granted · RG 2015-1221930 to 1961
- Petitions · RG 2015-1221906 to 1960
- Transferred petitions · RG 2015-1221954
Occupational Records
- Bonds and oaths (Unadilla Township) · RG 2011-191891 to 1974
- Chiropractors · RG 2015-1221934 to 1972
- Dentists · RG 2015-1221908 to 1977
- Optometrists · RG 2015-1221910 to 1977
- Record of nurses · RG 2015-1221910 to 1967
- Roll of attorneys · RG 2015-1221877 to 1977
- Veterinary surgeons · RG 2015-1221880 to 1976
Political Records
Poor Home / Relief Records
- Old age pension board minute book · RG 78-681934 to 1935
- Register of volunteer relief · RG 63-131862 to 1865
- Superintendent of Poor account ledger · RG 78-681904 to 1933
Prison Records
- County jail meal sheets · RG 2014-221965 to 1968
Probate Records
- Case files · RG 67-901895 to 1905
- Case files · RG 71-1641897 to 1899
- Petition affidavits of notice of publication · RG 75-121855 to 1865
- Probate of wills · RG 75-121858 to 1867
- Record of sale of real estate · RG 75-121874 to 1880
- Register · RG 75-121859 to 1898
- Sales of real estate · RG 75-121864 to 1872
Recreation Records
- Bounty stub (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341906 to 1926
- Dog register (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341918 to 1919
- Sheep killed (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341922 to 1925
Tax Records
- Assessment rolls · RG 81-1131837 to 1880
- Assessment rolls (Cohoctah Township) · RG 2011-221911 to 1941 and from 1966 to 1969
- Assessment rolls (Conway Township) · RG 2023-431836 to 1941
- Assessment rolls (Green Oak Township) · RG 68-341845 to 1940
- Assessment rolls (Handy Township) · RG 2013-481908, from 1924 and from 1941
- Assessment rolls (Hartland Township) · RG 2008-261908 to 1969
- Assessment rolls (Howell) · RG 2013-481892 to 1946
- Assessment rolls (Howell Township) · RG 2013-481919 to 1935
- Assessment rolls (Iosco Township) · RG 2013-481929
- Assessment rolls (Unadilla Township) · RG 2011-191898 to 1943
- Delinquent tax records · RG 2013-481935 to 1938
- Delinquent tax records (Howell) · RG 2013-481930 to 1935
- Delinquent tax records (Unadilla Township) · RG 2013-481849 to 1886
- Dog tax record (Hamburg Township) · RG 83-941900
- Regular assessment books · RG 2013-481878 to 1942
Vital Records
- Birth records (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341915 to 1918 and from 1936 to 1950
- Burial transit records (Howell Township) · RG 2014- 134not dated to 1950
- Death records (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341940 to 1948
- Index to births · RG 78-681889 to 1907
- Index to deaths · RG 78-681895 to 1927 and from 1934 to 1948
- Register of births (Green Oak Township) · RG 68-341906 to 1949
- Register of deaths (Green Oak Township) · RG 68-341897 to 1952
Voter Records
- Election register (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341882 to 1891
- Electors (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341859 to 1977
- Party nominations (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341894 to 1908
- Poll book (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341928 to 1932
- Record of party enrollment (Green Oak Township) · RG 68-341908, from 1910, and from 1912
- Register of electors (Green Oak Township) · RG 68-341882 to 1946
- Register of electors (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341916 to 1924
- Register of women electors (Green Oak Township) · RG 68- 341919 to 1945
- Registration book (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341924 to 1939
- Registration book (Unadilla Township) · RG 2011-191896 to 1946
- Voter ledger (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341915
- Voter registration (Howell Township) · RG 2014-1341946
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected holdings described by the Archives of Michigan. Preserve the record-group (RG) reference when requesting records. Some collections are held at partner repositories; consult the guide before traveling. Asterisks and other qualifiers refer to access or location notes in that guide. Some records have privacy restrictions or require proof of death. A date span may contain gaps and does not establish that images are online.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Livingston County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the county clerk, the register of deeds and the probate court, and any online record search the county offers.
- The county clerk
Births, deaths and marriages registered in the county, and court records.
- The register of deeds
Deeds, mortgages and other land records.
- The probate court
Wills, estates and guardianships.
- The Archives of Michigan
In Lansing: state and county records, and Michigan death certificates from 1897 to 1952 online at Michiganology.
- Archives of Michiganfree
The state archives in Lansing, with county and state records, military records and Michigan death records.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Michigan, Livingston" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
Offices change their hours and access rules; call before you visit.
Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Shiawassee County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Shiawassee County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1833, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
Michigan began registering births and deaths in 1867, much earlier than most states, with county clerks keeping the registers and sending copies to the state. Ask the county clerk for the early registers.