Having a lot of family from Southwest Michigan, I’ve been very pleased by the progress being made on an index to obituaries from the counties of Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo and Van Buren. Over 89,000 obits are indexed. The obits date from Southwest Michigan’s earliest history through the year 2000. There is also a marriage, anniversary, engagement and divorce index available at:http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/SWMIObitIndex/Marriage.txt.
Obit citations found at the site are from the following papers and other sources:
- Herald-Palladium, Benton Harbor
- Courier-Leader, Paw Paw
- Berrien County Record, Buchanan
- Marcellus News, Marcellus
- Allegan County News, Allegan
- Commercial Express, Saugatuck
- New Buffalo Times, New Buffalo
- South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana
- Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo
- Decatur Republican, Decatur
- Tri-City Record, Watervliet
- Niles Daily Star, Niles
- Union Enterprise, Plainwell
- Dowagiac Daily News, Dowagiac
- South Haven Tribune, South Haven
- Cassopolis Vigilant, Cassopolis
- Funeral Home Card
- Bangor Advance, Bangor
- Hartford Day Spring, Hartford
- Bloomingdale Leader, Bloomingdale
- Edwardsburg Argus, Edwardsburg
- Gobles News, Gobles
- Lawton Leader, Lawton
- Lawrence Times, Lawrence
- Michigan Pioneer Collection
- Schoolcraft Express, Schoolcraft
- Southwest Michigan University, Dowagiac
- Surname Card – Private submission
- Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
- Otsego Union
See the Southwest Michigan Obituary Index at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mivanbur/SWMIObitIndex/SWMIObit.htm
The following is directly from the website:
To order a copy of the obituary from the collection, please send $3.00 for each item by check, cash or money order and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
VBRGS, P.O. Box 143, Decatur, MI 49045. Please include the full entry from the index. Orders that include incomplete information from the index will be returned for more information. Some obituaries listed are transcriptions. Please do not request lookups in the obituaries to determine if it is the appropriate person. Proceeds will be used to continue the project.
The following screen shot is for the entry of my cousin Elmore, and his wife, Doris.
