Herrick District Library is excited to introduce our new Community Collections. Through online galleries that use pictures, videos, and audio we hope to highlight the stories of our library and community. Click on the link to listen to oral histories completed by area community members. Galleries will continue to be added as more content is collected and created.
Genealogy
Family & Local History Titles
Resources for Genealogy
- A.C. VanRaalte Institute
- Allegan County Clerk
- Allegan County Historical Society
- Borculo, Michigan
- Commercial Record - Weekly Newspaper for the Saugatuck-Douglas Area
- Digital Holland - through Hope College
- Holland City News (through Hope College Digital Commons)
- Historic Ottawa Beach Society
- Holland City News & Holland Sentinel Obituaries from Genweb 1910-1997
- Holland Museum
- Hope College Yearbooks
- Joint Archives of Holland
- Loutit District Library
- Macatawa Bay Area History and Heritage
- Olive Township - Ottawa County Michigan
- Ottawa County Clerk
- Pilgrim Home Cemetery
- Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society
- VanReken Index of Holland City News & Holland Sentinel 1880-1990
- Zeeland Historical Society - including Dekker Huis Museum
- American Ancestors
- Archivegrid
- Association of Professional Genealogists
- Bentheimers International Society
- Bible Records
- Bureau of Land Management General Records Office
- Cyndislist
- Daughters of the American Revolution
- Diedinhouse.com
- Family Search
- Genealogy Roots Blog
- Genforum (by genealogy.com)
- Heraldica
- Find My Past/Mocavo
- National Archives
- National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
- Naturalization Records and Indexes
- Online Death Indexes
- Rootsweb
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
- Sons of the American Revolution
- The US Genweb Project
- Vitalrec.com
- World Genweb Project
- Michigan Historical Center -- Archives of Michigan
- Calvin College -- Heritage Hall
- Common Corners -- website for Western Michigan Genealogy
- Historical Society of Michigan
- Library of Michigan
- Michigan County Histories and Atlases
- Michigan Department of Community Health -- Vital Records
- Michigan Family History Network
- Michigan Genealogical Council
- Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System
- Michiganology
- MIGenWeb
- Native Americans in Michigan -- part of MIGenWeb
- ObitMichigan.com
- Southwest Michigan Obituary Index
- VanBuren Regional Genealogical Society
- Western Michigan Genealogical Society
- Database of Surnames in the Netherlands
- Digital Resources Netherlands and Belgium
- Drenthe
- Dutch Cemeteries
- Dutch National Archives
- Dutch Roots Tours $
- Friesland -- records prior to 1811
- Friesland -- information from 1811 on -- also in English
- Gelderland
- Graftombe.nl
- Limburg
- National Archives of the Netherlands
- North Brabant
- North Holland
- Trace Your Dutch Roots
- Utrecht
- WieWasWie
- Yvette's Dutch Genealogy Home Page
- Zeeland
- Archives Portal Europe
- The Ancestor Hunt -- Newspapers
- Chronicling American - Historic American Newspapers
- Free Newspaper Archives - United States
- Holland City News (through Hope College Digital Commons)
- Newspapers on Microform - List of Newspapers at the Library of Congress
- Online Historical Newspapers Website
- Rowell's & Ayer's American Newspaper Directory






