Great news, our volunteers have completed the indexing of the 1884, 1889, and 1893 tax assessment rolls for Independence Township, Oakland County Michigan. The list is posted on our website under the heading Free Genealogical Data > 1890 Census Substitute Project for Oakland County. It will take 24-48 hours before the names are included in the main site search results, but you can search each page using +F for your names, or simple read through them. The images are posted at http://oaklandcountyhistory.org and linked from our site.
A press release is posted on the front page of the website, http://www.ocgsmi.org.
We would like to thank the volunteers who contributed to this project: Susan VanKirk Beyer, Beverly Lancaster, Concerta Phillipps, Shirley Reeve, Judy Suszko and Pam Warren. We are glad to have such willing volunteers to help researchers of Oakland County ancestors.
We are still working hard on indexing the surname charts which have been submitted to the Society over the years. Packets of 5 pages are available and should take about an hour to type into a spreadsheet. We'd love to finish this project before summer arrives, please volunteer to help with the indexing. You may do so my calling Pam Warren at 248-250-8139 or replying to this e-mail.
May 7 and June 4 are our final meeting dates for 2012-13, mark your calendar.