Houghton County's Archives

This is the index of the Houghton County USGenWeb archives.

The Italian Hall Disaster of December 1913 - Newspaper list of deaths



Houghton County Marriage Database  Updated the first week of each month. 



Houghton County's Land Patent's   - text file in the Houghton County MIGenWeb Archives



Autograph Book of Harriet Rule Lake Linden 1880-90's



Surname Indexes of Copper Country Series

Indexed to various books Copper Country Collection Series by Clarence J. Monette



1864 Michigan State Census - Houghton County  File #1     File #2

The 1864 State Census of Houghton County is being transcribed by Colleen Caudle. The first pages are Portage Township and more will be coming. Thank you, Colleen! - Mar. 28th updated and another page added.



The Mining Gazette  

Richard and June Ross have researched and transcribed records from various resources. They have generously sent their work to be put on this site's archives to share with Copper Country Family researchers. Please bookmark as there are many pages of their work going online.



Obits From the Mining Gazette  

Richard and June Ross have photocopied over 1000 obituaries from the Mining Gazette. The collection is available at present in two places depending on the way the transcriber prefers to work. These obituaries are mainly from the 1920's with a few earlier.



Jacques' Family Obituary Collection



Richards Family Obituaries



Jackman-Hiltunen Obituary Collection



New Indexes by the Ross's  

New indexes are being uploaded to Dick and June Ross's collection. Declarations of Intent and Marriages to start. Many more are coming.

MIGENWEB's Archive Search Engine

The Copper Country Archives are growing! If you have a resource that you can transcribe to be put into the archives with full credit to you, please contact