Muskegon County, Michigan Vital Records Documents Are Moving

MUSKEGON COUNTY [Michigan]Bob Waalkes, of Lakeshore Office Furniture, Muskegon, moves items from the Muskegon County clerk's office out of the Michael E. Kobza Hall of Justice, 990 Terrace, in Muskegon Thursday. The office is moving to 141 E. Apple for 18 months to two years, while the first and second floors of the Michael E. Kobza Hall of Justice are being renovated. The office, which is closed for the move, will be open for business at the Apple location Monday.History doesn’t change.

But sometimes, its location does.

Thousands of documents with historical significance, like century-old birth and death records for Muskegon County residents, are on the move.

The county clerk’s office, which collects and preserves vital records and election documents, is moving from its second-floor home in the Michael E. Kobza Hall of Justice.

The office will be closed today and reopens Monday across the street at 141 E. Apple Avenue in what is known as the county’s “South Campus.” The clerk’s circuit court operations will remain on the sixth floor of the hall of justice.

The move is part of the final phase of renovation to the county building, 990 Terrace.

The clerk’s staff worked with a moving company Wednesday to carefully pack bounded books filled with birth and death records that date back to the 1800s.

Read the full article by Chad D. Lerch in the November 20, 2009 edition of mlive.com.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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