Bureau of Land Management
         Search for land patents

Chippewa County Multimag
         Sault Ste. Marie Multimag
         De Tour Village Multimag
         ~Commercial site that includes some pictures and history.

City of Sault Ste Marie
This page is designed for frames so I couldn't link to sections directly. But if you visit the Parks & Recreation page, you'll see a number of links to historic buildings and information on local cemeteries.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC):
        Roosevelt's Tree Army, Michigan's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
         ------the first CCC in Michigan and it was here in Chippewa County---

CCC  Camp Papers: Search:
This database contains records for over 5,000 titles of CCC camps newspapers and newsletters which have been microfilmed. These newspapers and newsletters were published by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps, c.1934 - 1942. This database lists titles only. It does not contain an index of articles. Once you identify a title, take it to your local library to see if a copy of the microfilm can be ordered through interlibrary loan.

         CCC Alumni
         CCC Alumni Research Guidelines
              ---Includes list of Camps and their numbers by State.

DeTour Reef Light Preservation Society

Dibean Michigan Marriage Collection Index
         See our Chippewa County Collection here.

Downward Bound Great Lakes Shipping

Early Families of the Upper Great Lakes  (archives)

Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum Whitefish Point

History of the Soo Locks  (from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
        nice 1855 picture of the locks.

Kinross Auxiliary Air Field History
        includes names of the base commanders. Also see our  Military page.

LDS Online
        search for info on your ancestor.

LDS microfilm numbers for Vital Records.
        Chippewa County Clerks birth, marriage and death records.

Michigan Historic Sites Online: Chippewa County

Michigan Historical Markers  (search by topic or county)

Michigan Genealogical and Historical Societies  (for all of Michigan)

Michigan Migrations Project
        list your ancestors movement in and out of Chippewa County!
        search and submit data using the engines on the left hand
        side of the screen at this site.

Michigan Women: Firsts and Founders;
Michigan Women's History Timeline

Michigan Weather and our Ancestors

People of the Three Fires: Native Genealogy in Michigan

Pickford Area Historical Society - home page

Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
        Obituaries (current year only - for older ones, try the Soo Evening News Search)

Sault Ste. Marie Evening News Search
        located at the Lake Superior University.
        1991 to present, plus some old archive articles.

Soo Line Railroad

The Soo Locks History

Tower of History Sault Ste. Marie

Trade Goods (lots of bios on early surnames)

The Soo Railroad, 100 Year Timeline

Veteran Ancestor Registry

Whitefish Point Lighthouse (Shipwreck Museum)

Michigan Family History Network

American Local History Network

Cyndi's List

Bayliss Public Library
541 Library Drive,
Sault Sainte Marie, MI 49783
Telephone: 906-632-9331
Fax: 906-635-0210
BPL's Community Information Network (local history & genealogy)

Bay Mills Community College Library and Heritage Center
12214 West Lakeshore Drive
Brimley MI 49715
Telephone: 906-248-3354 ext 4202
Fax: 906-248-2432

Drummond Island Library
29934 East Court St., PO Box 202
Drummond Island, MI 49726
Telephone: 906-493-5243
Fax: 906-493-5924
(This library has no web site and is located inside the Drummond Island Elementary School)

Hiawathaland Library Cooperative
541 Library Drive
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Telephone: 906- 632-4342
Fax: 906-635-0210
(Based at the Bayliss Public Library)

Lake Superior State University
Kenneth J. Shouldice Library
906 Ryan Avenue
Sault Ste. Marie MI 49783-1632
Telephone: 906) 635-2815
(Home of the Sault Evening News Newspaper Index)

Rudyard School and Public Library
Second and William, P.O. Box 246
Rudyard, MI 49780
Telephone: 906-478-4504
Fax: 906-478-3303

Sault Ste. Marie High School Library
904 Marquette Ave.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Telephone: 906-635-3820
Fax: 906-635-3847

Sault Ste. Marie Middle School Library
684 Marquette Ave.
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
Telephone: 906-635-6646

Whitefish Township Community Library
7247 N. M-123, P.O. Box 197
Paradise, MI 49768
Telephone: 906-492-3500
Fax: 906-492-3500
(This library does not have a web site.)