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Last Updated:
February 2025

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Our first meeting of the year will be Wednesday, March 19th at 7pm.

Michael Delaware will be presenting on Eaton County History.

Watch for the email with the registration information which includes in person and Zoom.

The new 2025 membership renewal form is up and ready to go.

As in the past few years, we are not able to accept online membership but to hope by next year. Please visit the Membership page which is found at the top of the website.

Lansing Family History Center seminar has returned!
April 26, 2025 from 8-4

Click here for further information.

Regularly Scheduled Room Hours

    New Hours as of December 2024 are Tuesdays from 5:00pm-8:00pm except the first Tues of each month

    Please call ahead especially if you're coming from a long distance to ensure room is open.

    Appointments can be made for other hours also by contacting us. At least 72 hours in advance notification is required.

    For research requests, visit the Send A Request page.

Our society is run entirely by volunteers. We enjoy providing a limited amount of research for you from our library resources and will get to yours as soon as volunteers are available. For a list of people who may be able to help you with more research (for a fee), see our Researchers page.

Eaton County Day at the State Library/Archives of Michigan

(tours and speakers from both the Library and Archives)

It will be May 3rd this year. Watch for further information as pre-registeration will be needed to participate in this event. Lunch will be provided.

Where are the Eaton County Digitized Newspapers?

The Charlotte Public Library is now hosting the Eaton County Digitized newspapers on their website at charlottelibrary.org. Many digitized Eaton County newspapers have been uploaded to the Internet with more to come. On their site, go to Local History then scroll down to the widget's search box. You can search from here or click on the X in the upper right corner to close this window and look through the individual newspapers.

The Grand Ledge Independent newspapers after January 1924 can be searched on the Grand Ledge Library's website at gladl.org. Look for them under the Local History section.

The Eaton County newspapers are still available for searching at fultonhistory.com.

If you wish to donate to the effort to digitize more Eaton County newspapers, please send contributions to us at: ECGS, 100 W Lawrence Ave, Charlotte, MI 48813

Instructions for Eaton County Old Probate Packets on Family Search

Are you looking for the old probate packets from Eaton County? They're now on Family Search. Here's a set of directions on how to access them now: Search for Older Eaton County Probate Packet images on Family Search! And here's the link to Family Search to access these records: Family Search.

This page last updated: 19 Feb 2025