Michigan Colonial Records

Ecclesiastical Records

 * L'Assomption de la Pointe-de-Montreal, Detroit. Registre de la Paroisse, 1761-99 by Eglise catholique, L'Assomption de la Pointe-de-Montreal (Sandwich Township, Upper Canada), Otawa: National Archives of Canada, 1967, film 1026603 ff.).
 * Ontario, Roman Catholic Church Parish Registers
 * Sainte Anne, Detroit. Registre de la Paroisse, 1704-1800 (Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1967, film 1026602 ff.). Registers of Fort Ponchartrain, now Detroit, Michigan.
 * Copies of original records are held at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario.


 * 18th Century parish and city maps and Sacramental registers from 1704 at the Archdiocese of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan.
 * The Catholic Church in Detroit, 1701-1888 by George Pare, Detroit: Gabriel Richard Press, 1951.

Civil Records

 * Records from the U.S. Land office at Detroit contain land grants and claims in the Detroit area, 1707-1825. The French land grants begin in 1707; British grants begin in 1781. These records are in the Bureau of Land Management record group (RG 49.13) at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Additional Readings

 * Christian Denisen, Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701-1936, 2 Vols, Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1987.
 * History of the Upper Penninsula of Michigan Containing a Full Account of its Early Settlement, 1883. Reprint, New Haven, CT: Research Publications, 1973, film 0485331.
 * Judy Jacobson, Detroit River Connections: Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Eastern Great Lakes Border Region, Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1994.
 * Carol McGinnis, Michigan Genealogy: Sources and Resources, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987.
 * Stanley D. Newton, The Story of Sault Sainte Marie and Chippewa County, 1923, Reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Black Letter Press, 1975.
 * Joseph L. Peyser, Letters from New France, the Upper Country, 1686-1783, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
 * Donna Valley Russell, Michigan Censuses, 1710-1830, under the French, British and Americans, Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1982.
 * Bernice Cox Sprenger, Guide to the Manuscripts in the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit: Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, 1985.
 * Donna Valley Stuart, Michigan Censuses, 1710-1830, under the French, British and Americans, Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1982.
 * Robert M. Warner, Guide to Manuscripts in the Michigan Historical Collections of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: n. p., 1963, film 0874197.
 * Ethel W. Williams, Tracing Your Ancestors in Michigan, Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1969, fische 6039418.