Library Hours

The Library is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Our Library collection
is housed at the Taylor Public Library located at 12303 Pardee Road, between Northline and Goddard. The holdings of the Downriver Genealogical Library include:

*** Family histories both professionally published and privately done by our members.

*** Ancestry chart books

*** Wyandotte and Taylor death records

*** Thon's and Ballheim funeral home indexes

*** Various downriver cemeteries

*** Materials on the 17 communities encompassed by the Downriver Genealogical Society - including some yearbooks

*** City directories for selected downriver communities

*** Death, marriage and anniversary notices from local newspapers

*** 1910-1930 microfilm for the Southeastern Michigan area

*** Early Woodmere Cemetery transcriptions done by our society

*** Complete Holy Cross Cemetery transcriptions done by our society

*** Wi-Fi and computer internet through the Taylor Community Library

*** Research guides, genealogy how-to's, military materials, immigration and passenger lists, and many national and local genealogical periodicals

*** European research materials

*** Materials for French Canadian research - including Tanguay, Denissen, and Jette


Shelving with city directories

Shelving with city directories.

Card catalog of death notices

Card catalog of death notices.

Black binders are local obits; white binders are local marriages

Black binders are local obits; white binders are local marriages.

Europe, Canada and miscellaneous reference books

Europe, Canada and miscellaneous reference books.

United States & Wayne County, Michigan & Detroit

United States & Wayne County, Michigan & Detroit.

Michigan books

Michigan books.

 
 
United States Books

United States Books.

 
   

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