Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Menominee 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
- Certificate of co-partnerships · RG 2006-31916 to 1949
- Index of business conducted under assumed name · RG 2006-31907 to 1949
- Index to assumed names · RG 2006-31950 to 1967
- Index to co-partnerships · RG 2006-31955 to 1967
- Record of corporations · RG 2006-31888 to 1921
- Statement of lien for labor upon logs · RG 63-281899 to 1929
Cemetery Records
- Menominee County files · RG 83-531968 to 1975
Census Records
- Federal census · RG 63-281870
- State census · RG 63-281884, and from 1894
Court Records
- Circuit Court case files · RG 2009-151863 to 1941
- Coroner’s inquests · RG 2009-221905 to 1910, and from 1924
- Justice Court docket (Breitung Township) · RG 2009-15*1880 to 1885
Land Records
Military Records
Naturalization Records
- Certificate stubs · RG 2008-221907 to 1926
- Declarations of Intention · RG 2008-221863 to 1952
- Naturalization docket · RG 2008-221907 to 1911
- Petitions · RG 2008-221906 to 1955
- Petitions denied · RG 2008-221930 to 1952
- Petitions granted · RG 2008-221930 to 1955
- Repatriations · RG 2008-221940 to 1950
- Second papers · RG 2008-221873 to 1906
Occupational Records
- Physicians returned by assessor · RG 2006-31904
- Record of nurses · RG 2006-31919 to 1957
- Record of medical practitioners · RG 2006-31883 to 1972
- Record of optometrists · RG 2006-31910 to 1959
Tax Records
- Tax rolls · RG 2009-121869 to 1930, and from 1942 to 1971
Vital Records
- Birth certificates · RG 2009-22*1882 to 1955
- Death certificates · RG 2009-221921, from 1926 to 1941, and from 1959 to 1966
- Marriage affidavits · RG 2009-221903 to 1972
- Marriage licenses · RG 2009-221903 to 1925
- Monthly death returns · RG 2009-221892, from 1902 to 1933, and from 1939
- Quarterly birth returns · RG 2009-22*1903 to 1935, and from 1939
- Quarterly death returns · RG 2009- 221926 to 1936, and from 1938 to 1939
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
- Find Menominee County's official website
We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the county clerk, the register of deeds and the probate court.
- 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, Menominee" 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: Land not yet in any county; attached to Marquette County for courts until it organized
Later formed partly from Menominee County: Dickinson County, Iron County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1861, 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.