Sources for Genealogy of Rosemarie Schulte Website

Vital & Church Records

  • National Archives and Records Administration, 700 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20408.
  • National Archives of Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A ON3.
  • Bibliotheque Nationale, 58 rue de Richelieu et 2, rue Louvois 75002 Paris (1167 date).
  • Archives de l'Orne, 6-10, Avenue de Basingstoke 61017, Alencon (1389 date).
  • Archives departementales de l'Orne, Alencon, France (Andre) Notariat de Tourouvre (Etienne).
  • Archief Drenthe, Brink 4 9401 HS Assen, Postbus 595, 9400 AN Assen.
  • Genealogical Records - West Flanders, Belgium - Public Rec. Office - Bruges.
  • General Register Office, PO Box 2, Southport, Merseyside, UK, PR8 2JD.

  • Florida Department of Health, P.O. Box 210, Jacksonville, FL 32231-0042.
  • Lake Co., IN Health Dept., 2293 N. Main St., Crown Point, IN 46307-1854.
  • Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records, 150 Mount Vernon St., 1st Fl., Dorchester, MA 02125-3105.
  • Michigan Department of Public Health, P.O. Box 30195, Lansing, MI 48909.
  • Minnesota Department of Health, P.O. 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164-0975.
  • North Dakota Department of Public Health, 600 East Boulevard Avenue, Bismarck, N.D. 58505-0200.
  • Ohio Department of Public Health, P.O. 15098, Columbus, OH 43215-0098.
  • Oregon State Archives, 800 Summer St NE, Salem OR 97310.
  • Portland Center for Health Statistics, P.O. Box 14050, Portland, OR 97293-0050.
  • South Carolina Dept of Health, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29201.
  • Vermont Dept of Health, 108 Cherry St., Burlington, VT 05402-0070.
  • Washington Dept of Health, Center for Health Statistics, P.O. Box 9709, Olympia, WA 98507-9709.
  • Wisconsin Dept of Health, 1 W. Wilson, PO Box 309, Madison, WI 53701-0309.

  • Kalamazoo County Clerk, 201 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49007.
  • Kalamazoo County Probate Court, County Bldg., 277 W. Michigan Ave, 49007.
  • Muskegon County Clerk, 990 Terrace, Muskegon, MI 49442.
  • Oswego County Clerk, 46 E. Bridge St., Oswego, NY 13126.
  • St. Clair County Clerk, 201 McMorran Blvd., Port Huron, MI 48060.
  • Van Buren County Clerk, 212 E. Paw Paw St., Paw Paw, MI 49079-1492.
  • Wayne County Clerk, 201 City-County Bldg., Detroit, MI 48226.

  • MI Genealogy Council, Michigan Death Index 1867-1882, Vol V (Lansing, MI: MI Dept of Health-Vital Records Div., Jan 1998), ledger pgs 72, 226, 251, 257, 279, 313 & 336.

  • Social Security Death Index at https://www.rootsweb.com or https://www.ancestry.com

  • Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, 1700 W. Washington, Phoenix, AZ 85007.
  • Iowa State Historical Society Library, 600 E. Locust, Des Moines, IA 50319.
  • Minnesota Historical Society, 345 Kellogg Blvd West, St. Paul, MN, 55102-1906.
  • Sheboygan County Historical Research Center, 518 Water Street, Sheboygan Falls, WI 53085.
  • St. Lawrence County Historical Association, 3 E Main St, Canton, NY 13617.
  • Tacoma Public Library, 1102 Tacoma Ave South, Tacoma, WA 98402-2098.
  • University of Wisconsin - Stout Archives and Research Center, Menomonie WI
  • Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State St., Madison, WI 53706-1482.

  • Ancestral Family Files and International Genealogical Index at https://www.familysearch.org

  • Family History Libraries:

  • 525 E. Woodland Dr., Saline, MI.
  • 1112 N. Drake, Kalamazoo, Michigan.


  • Church Records & Cemeteries

  • Archdiocese of Detroit, 1234 Washington, Detroit, MI 48226 (for closed churches).
  • L'Anse Creuse Register - Church records of the NE Coast of Detroit, compiled by Father G.J. Boheme - translated by Lorelei Maison Rockwell.
  • Dorlar, Westfalen - German Catholic Church Records - FHL_LDS film #0936737.
  • Kirchrarbach, Westfalen - German Catholic Church Records - FHL_LDS film #0957789.
  • St. Hubert Parish Records, Dorlar, Germany.

  • Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, CA.
  • Grundy County IA Grave Records,Conrad Cemetery, on Ancestry.com.
  • Kendall Cemetery Records, Pine Grove Twp, MI, published by Van Buren Genealogical Society.
  • Mountain Home Cemetery Records, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MI.
  • Mt. Olivet Cemetery Burial Records, Detroit, Wayne County, MI.
  • St. Peter & Paul Cemetery Burial Records, North Branch, Lapeer County, MI.
  • Resurrection Cemetery Burial Records, Clinton Township, Macomb County, MI.
  • Riverside Cemetery Burial Records, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MI.
  • New Vriesland Cemetery Burial Records, Zeeland, Ottawa, MI.
  • Hopkinton-Fort Jackson NY Cemetery Records, compiled 2001, Rootsweb.
  • Columbia County OR Cemetery Records, compiled by Judy Whipple & friends for the Genealogical Forum of Oregon.
  • Walnut Creek Cemetery Records, Baraboo, Sauk, WI.
  • Greenbush Association Cemetery, Sheboygan County, WI - cemetery visit.

  • Family Bible of Rosemarie & Walter Jeske of Macomb County, MI, Catholic Family Edition of Holy Bible, (New York: John J. Crawley & Co., Inc., 15 Aug 1953), Imprimatur Francis Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York; records noted by Rosemarie J. (Schulte) Jeske.

  • Holy Cards/Death Cards from Funeral Homes

  • A.H. Peters Funeral Home - Warren, MI
  • Mason Funeral Home (Bertrand Funeral Homes), 902 N. State St. - Pleasantville, IA
  • George B. Morgan Funeral Home - New Port Richey, FL
  • Kaul Funeral Homes - Roseville & Clinton Twp, MI
  • Loyless Funeral Home - Land O'Lakes, FL
  • Walter Scott Skupny Funeral Home  - Roseville, MI
  • Weitenberner Funeral Home - Detroit, MI
  • Wilcox Funeral Home - Winter Park, FL

  • Belgian Funeral Cards also see Links webpage for The Flemish Family Society
  • Newspapers

  • Akron Beacon Journal, 44 E. Exchange St., Akron, OH, 44328-0002.
  • The Cawker City Ledger, Cawker, Mitchell County, KS 67430.
  • The Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611-4026.
  • The Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, The Grand Rapids Press, Kalamazoo Evening Telegraph, The Lansing State Journal, The Macomb Daily, Macomb Daily Monitor Leader, Oakland Press, Port Huron Times Herald, The Saginaw News, on microfilm at Library of Michigan,717 W. Allegan St., Lansing, Ingham, MI 48909.
  • The Grand Rapids Press,155 Michigan St. NW, Grand Rapids MI 49503-2353.
  • The Hartford Courant, 285 Broad Street, Hartford, CT 06115.
  • Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 7 Waterfront Plaza, Ste 210, 510 Ala Moana, Honolulu, HI 96813.
  • Island Packet, P.O. Box 5727, Hilton Head Island, SC 29938.
  • Kalamazoo Gazette Newspaper, indexed and on microfilm at https://www.kpl.gov/ or Kalamazoo Main Public Library, 315 South Rose Street, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI 49007.
  • The Mendota Reporter, 703 Illinois Ave., Mendota, IL 61342.
  • The Michigan Catholic, Archdiocese of Detroit, 1234 Washington, Detroit, MI 48226.
  • The Modesto Bee, 1325 H Street, Modesto, CA 95352.
  • The Muskegon Chronicle, 981 3rd St, Muskegon MI 49440-1295.
  • Oregon Daily Journal 1925-1985 issues, Unv of Oregon Microfilm Project
  • The Oregonian, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland OR 97201.
  • The Plain Dealer, 1801 Superior Ave E, Cleveland, OH 44114.
  • The Rainier Review, Rainier Obituary Index - 1905-98, at Rainier City Library, 106 B West, Rainier, OR 97048.
  • The Salt Lake Tribune, 143 S Main St # 400,Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1945.
  • The Sioux City Journal, 515 Pavonia St., Sioux City IA 51101.
  • The South Bend Tribune, 225 W Colfax Ave, South Bend, IN 46601-1606.
  • The St. Paul Pioneer Press, 345 Cedar Street, St. Paul, MN 55101.
  • St. Petersburg Times,490 First Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL.
  • Sturgis Journal - online, Sturgis MI.
  • The Times - Hammond, 601 45th Ave, Munster, IN 46321-2819.
  • Books

  • Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-33, 3 Volumes, (Boston, MA: New England Historical Society, 1995).

  • James N. Arnold, Vital Records of Rhode Island 1636-1850 - births, marriages and deaths, Vol 5, (Providence RI: Narraganset Historical Publishing Co, 1891-1912).

  • Frederick W. Bailey, Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1914).

  • Dr. Charles E. Banks, History of Martha's Vineyard, Duke County MA - The Adams Family, Vol II (Boston: G.H. Dean, 1925), transcribed for the Web by C. Baer, 1999.

  • Denis Beauregard, Genealogical Dictionary of Our Origins, Complement a Jette - DGFQ, Pt 1: Quebec, 1608-1730, to correct pg 1088 of DGFQ.

  • Beers, J.H., Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, PA, (Chicago, IL: J.H. Beers & Co, 1893).

  • Catherine Bicknell Ph.D., Assumption Grotto Parish 150 Years of Faith 1832-1982 (Detroit, MI: Our Lady Press, 1982).

  • Burton, M. Agnes, editor, Burton, Clarence M., compiler - City Historiographer Governor and Judges Journal, Proceedings of the Land Board of Detroit (Detroit, 1915).

  • Cutter, Wm. Richard, Cutter's Genealogies and Family Portraits of Central New York, Vol 1, (NY: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1912).

  • Hubert Charbonneau et Jacques Legare, Repertoire des actes de-bapteme, Volume 1 (n.p.: n.pub., n.d.), pg 242; found at Mike and Suzannes Place: 

  • DAR-Alexander Macomb Chapter, Macomb County Marriages, Vol 1 & 2 (Mt. Clemens, MI: 1937).

  • DAR-Louisa St. Clair Chapter, Wayne County Probate Records, Vol I-V (Lansing MI: Michigan State Library, 1936).

  • Christian Denissen, Denissen's Genealogy of French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936, Volume II, revision editor Robert L. Pilon, (Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1987), 1987 ed; located at Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan North Campus, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, MI; also at Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI.

  • Extrait de Nos racines l´histoire vivante des Québécois,Vol. 8 page 161.

  • Ernest B. Fisher, ed., Grand Rapids and Kent Co.: historical account of their progress..., (Chicago: Robert O. Law Co., 1918).

  • Greene, Richard Henry and other members of the New York Genealogical Society, The New York Genealogical and Biolographical Record, (NY: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1903), original located at Harvard Unv.

  • R. P. Archange Godbout, Origine des Families Canadiennes Francaises, (Montreal, Canada: Editions Elysee, 1979); located at: Dallas Public Library.

  • Dwight Goss, History of Grand Rapids, (Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., Pub., 1906).

  • Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, (Chicago: Munsell Pub. Co., 1908).

  • John Homer Bliss, Bliss Family Genealogy 1550-1880, (Boston MA: J.H. Bliss, 1881).

  • Judy Jacobson, Detroit River Connections, (Baltimore MD: Printed for Clearfield Co by Genealogical Pub Co, 1994).

  • Rene Jette, Dictionnaire genealogique des familles du Quebec, (Montreal, Canada: Les Presses de L'Universite , de Montreal, 1983), often more accurate than Tanguay's per Canadian Archives.

  • Rene Jette, John P. DuLong, Roland-Yves Gagné, Gail F. Moreau and Joseph A. Dubé, Table d'ascendance de Catherine Baillon (12 generations). (Montreal: Societe genealogique canadienne-francaise, 2001).

  • Kalamazoo Public Library, Historical Directory, compiled by Robert Eugene Meader.

  • Kalamazoo Public Library, World War I and II Record Books at Kalamazoo Main Public Library, Local History Room, 315 South Rose Street, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, MI 49007.

  • Marguerite N. Lambert, Marriage & Death Newspaper Notices in Wayne County MI, 1809 - 1868, (Detroit: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1998).

  • Martin, David Kendall, The Eighteenth Century Snell Family of the Mohawk Valley, (Mouse Hill, West Chazy, NY: Snell-Zimmerman-Timmerman Reuinon, Inc., 1982).

  • Michigan Historical Commission, Pioneer and Historical Society of MI Annual Meeting June 1887, (Lansing, MI: Thorp & Godfrey, 1888).

  • Langworthy, William Franklin, The Langworthy Family, Some Descendants of Andrew and Rachel (Hubbard) Langworthy, (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Antiquarian Books, 1940).

  • Roger W. Lawrence, "Pierre Tremblay Ascendance," American Canadian Genealogist,

  • Vol 20, No. 2, Spring 1994; author cites: Jette and Paul Mederic's 

  • La Tremblaye millénaire, Tome 1, 1975.

  • Albert Nelson Marquis, A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men of the City of Detroit, (Chicago: A.N. Marquis & Company, 1908).

  • Larry B. Massie & Peter J. Schmitt, Kalamazoo: The Place Behind The Products, An Illustrated History (Sun Valley CA: American Historical Press, 1998).

  • Roger P. Minert, Ph.D., A.G., Westphalia Place Name Indexes: (With Hohenzollern, Lippe, Schaumburg-Lippe and Waldeck) (Woods Cross, UT: GRT Publications, 2002).

  • R.L. Polk & Co., Polk City/County Directories (Detroit, MI: R.L. Polk & Co Pub., various places and years).

  • Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

  • Jno. Robertson, Adjutant General, Michigan in the Civil War, (Lansing MI: W.S. George & Co., 1882).

  • Roseville Public Library History Committee, Looking Back at Roseville, A Pictoral History, (Mt. Clemens, MI: Library Cooperative of Macomb, pub. 1986), 1989 edition.

  • Captain O.W. Rowland, A History of Van Buren County Michigan, Vol II, "Biographies" (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1912).

  • Frederick J. Seaver, History of Burke, New York - Historical Sketches of Franklin County and It's Several Towns, (Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Co., 1918).

  • Waldo Chamberlain Sprague, Genealogies of Braintree Families of Mass. 1640-1850, Vol 1-148, New England Historic Genalogical Society (Boston, MA: NextPage, 1999).

  • St. David Parish History Committee, The Makings of St. David's, (Detroit, MI: St. David Parish, 1959).

  • Milford B. Streeter, A Genealogical History of Gloucester, Mass - 1642, (Salem MA: Eben Putnam 1896) with insert from 1929 and additional information reprinted from "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register" October 1931, Vol 85.

  • Robert P. Swierenga, Dutch Households in U.S. Population Census 1850, 1860, 1870, (Wilmington, Delaware:Scholarly Resources Inc 1987).

  • Robert P. Swierenga, Passenger Index 1820-1880, microfilm series 2550006, U.S. National Archives.

  • Éloi-Gerard Talbot, Généalogie des familles originaires des comtes de Montmagny L'Islet Bellechasse, Tom XVI, (Chàteau - Richer, Quebec: Societé de Généalogie de Quebec, Oct. 1976).

  • Works Progress Administration, Indiana Marriage Index 1845-1920, at County Clerk's Offices, 1938-41.

  • Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, Legends of Le Detroit, Early French Families, (Detroit: T. Nourse, 1885).

  • Mehitable C.C. Wilson, John Gibson of Cambridge, Massachusetts and His Descendants, 1634-1899,(Washington, D.C.: McGill & Wallace, 1900).
  • Other sources

  • Neva Davis, Memories of the Streator Family, 1975.

  • Arthur J. Flemming, A Guide to Greiner Ancestry in America, 1831-1983, 1983.

  • Gibson, Ph.D., Roland, John Gibson of Fort Jackson, NY and His Descendants, 1961.

  • Rene Jette, John P. DuLong, Roland-Yves Gagné, Gail F. Moreau, "From Catherine Baillon to Charlemagne" American-Canadian Genealogist, 25:4 (Fall 1999) pgs 170-200.

  • James P. LaLone, "Genealogy of the Tremblay Family" The Habitant Heritage, French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, 1980's.

  • Art Lewis Jr., The Lewises of Kalamazoo.

  • The Drueke Company - Chess Designed in America by Duncan Pohl
    see Peter Biggins link

  • Thomas Priemer, The Baumgartner Family, 1972.

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  • Photos from the albums of: Rosemarie Schulte & Walter Jeske, Sadie Trombly & Joseph Schulte, Helen (Lewis) Gouderjan, Margery (Knoche) Bruman, Mariana Rose Kopacz and Brick Gibson.

  • Census Records Checked - with surnames
  • Researchers: Friends & Family

  • Colleen Baumgarten
  • Roman Baumgartner
  • Judith Bazzetta
  • Cathy Benedict
  • Marion Berkholz
  • Peter Biggins
  • Teresa Boers
  • Bevy Brown
  • Margery Bruman
  • Margaret Buza
  • Bev Camp
  • Colleen Cartwright
  • Doug Cline
  • Margot Cole
  • Lynnette Davis
  • Michele Davis
  • Neva Davis
  • Bill Delaney
  • Dorothy Dennis
  • Louise Dice
  • Karen Downs
  • Tine & Mar Drenth
  • Jackie Duffey
  • Diana Dunn
  • Rita Engelbert
  • Christine Evans
  • Lynn Ferencz
  • Doris Filer
  • Arlene Mae Frielink
  • Larry Frielink
  • Chris Fowler
  • Lidwina Geiger
  • R. Bricker Gibson
  • David Goeddeke
  • Frank Goeddeke
  • Deb Gosa
  • David Guilliom
  • Kim Hagen
  • Cheryl Halpern
  • Florence Heath
  • Sally Hoedel
  • Ab Hummel
  • Sherry Jenkins
  • Jackie Jensen
  • Julia Johnen
  • Sandra Kallek
  • Steve Kehrig
  • Tom Knoche
  • Michael LaForest
  • Barbara Lambert
  • Hal Langworthy
  • Elizabeth Lenhard
  • Arthur Lewis
  • Liz & Corby Lewis
  • Susan & Pat Lewis
  • Dorothy R. Lhamon
  • Ann Loranger
  • Beata Lyons
  • Jerry Malburg
  • Judee Maloney
  • Magdalene Markland
  • Donna McFarland
  • Winnifred McLeod
  • Linus Meldrum
  • Gloria Merucci
  • Mary Ann Mickey
  • Charles Miranda
  • Dona Jean Muller
  • Philip Nagel
  • Lois Navickas
  • Jennifer Owens
  • Rosemarion Patchak
  • Greg Peltier
  • Virginia Peterson
  • Carol Pettit
  • Phil Petz
  • Tom Risinger
  • Jean Rowley
  • Suzanne R. Sampson
  • John Schlaud
  • Esther Schoel
  • Joann Settler
  • Bernadine Sherwood
  • Darleen Shipway
  • Michele Silvers
  • Karen Sinotte
  • Phyllis Holtz Smith
  • Darrall Tanner
  • George Keith Trembly
  • Bud Vanderberg
  • Carol A. Voss; Marilynn Voss
  • Wendy Watson
  • Lee Weiss
  • Sylvia Weishaupt
  • Audrey Wirtzfeld
  • Allen Wittenberg
  • Barbara Zanzig
  • Don,Linda,Scott Zimmerman
  • David Zylman