Caroline Kennedy Library

Beginning Irish Genealogy with Cathy Cottone In order to find information on your Irish ancestors, you will need to do as much research as you can here in the United States first. So you need to follow their paper trail to help give clues as to where they were from in Ireland. Events, like births, ... Read more

Lumber Barons and the Shanties that worked for them – A historical look at the Michigan lumber industry and the men that worked for it.  Available records will be discussed, and sources identified.

Over one hundred years ago, during the winter of 1918-1919, 5,200 U.S. soldiers – the majority of them from Michigan – were stranded in a sub-arctic region of North Russia, engaged in bitter combat with the Bolshevik Red Army. They had arrived in Archangel, Russia, on September 4, 1918, and their battles continued long after ... Read more