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Last Updated:
5 April 2025

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Our September meeting will be our symposium on Saturday, the 27th, starting at 9:30am. Please note the location has changed for this year!

To register, click here

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    The colors are (left to right in both pics): Royal Blue, Carolina Blue, Sapphire and Texas Orange.

    Pay when you pick it up. Want it mailed? We can get it to you.

    Click here for the pre-order form.

    They may be picked up when attending our monthly meetings or during our open hours and there's the option of mailing if you prefer.

Regularly Scheduled Room Hours

    New Hours as of June 2025 are Tuesdays from 5:00pm-8:00pm except the first Tues of each month and Thursdays from 10:00am-2:00pm.

    Please call ahead especially if you're coming from a long distance to ensure we are 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.

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: 25 August 2025