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

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