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	Michigan Online Records

County Courthouse

St. Joseph County Courthouse
125 W Main St.
Centreville, MI 49032-0189
Phone: 616-467-5602

County Clerk has birth and death records from 1867,
marriage records from 1832, divorce and court records from 1900
and naturalization records.
Probate Court has probate records.
Register of Deeds has land records. ^[1]

History

Parent County

1829--St. Joseph County was created 29 October 1829 from unorganized territory. County seat: Centreville ^[2]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

• Branch
• Calhoun
• Cass
• Elkhart County, Indiana
• Kalamazoo
• Lagrange County, Indiana
• Van Buren

Resources

Cemeteries

• Oak Lawn Cemetery, Sturgis BillionGraves
• South Colon Cemetery, Burr Oak BillionGraves

Mottville Township:

• Mennonite Cemetery
• Mottville Township Cemetery

Park Township:

• Center Park Cemetery
• Moorepark Road North Park or Mint Cemetery
• Moorepark Cemetery
• Parkville Cemetery
• South Park Cemetery

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

• The Portrait and biographical album of St. Joseph County, Michigan is a 606 page history of St. Joseph County that was published by Chapman brothers in 1889. The book was digitized February 11, 2008 and made available on Google Books.

Maps

Military

Civil War

Civil War service men from St. Joseph County served in various regiments. Men often joined a regiment or a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are the military units that were formed in or had many men from St. Joseph County.

- 17th Regiment, Michigan Infantry, Company C

Newspapers

Probate

Taxation

Vital Records

• Michigan Birth Registrations, 1867-1902 -- Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch Record Search. Records include such information as name of child, birthdate and place, if still-born, illegitimate or twin, gender, race and record number.
• Michigan Marriage Registrations, 1868-1925 -- Free name indexes at FamilySearch Record Search.  Records include such information as names of bride and groom, date of license, ages, race, residences, birthplaces, occupations and names of the fathers of the bride and groom.
• Michigan Death Registrations, 1867-1897 -- Free name indexes and images at FamilySearch Record Search.   Records include such information as name of deceased, date and place of death, gender, color, marital status, age in years, months and days, disease or apparent cause of death, birthplace, names and occupations of parents, and the date the record was made.
• Michigan Death Record Search, 1867-2008 -- A free index to deaths that occurred in St. Joseph county, Michigan is available at the County Clerk's death records web site.

Societies and Libraries

Libraries:

Societies

• St. Joseph County Genealogical Society
• Tri-State Genealogical Society

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Sturgis Michigan Family History Center

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), St Joseph County, Michigan page 351, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).