DRGS Library

Library Hours

Our Society Library is open Tuesday 9 am until 1 pm, and Thursday from 10 am until 2 pm. Please call the library, (734) 535-6530 with any questions or to confirm hours.

The Flat Rock Community Schools is not requiring masks and does not require anyone to fill out the health questionnaire.

The DRGS Library is closed when Flat Rock Schools are closed.

You may also e-mail the DRGS Library library@downrivergenealogy.org.

Library Location

The Library collection is housed at the Flat Rock School Administration Building, Room 100, 28639 Division St, Flat Rock, Michigan. Wi-Fi is available on the library computers.

Library Holdings

• Family histories both professionally published and privately done by our members.
• Ancestry chart books
• Wyandotte and Taylor death records
• Various downriver cemeteries
• Materials on the 17 communities encompassed by the Downriver Genealogical Society
• City directories for selected downriver communities
• Death, marriage and anniversary notices from local newspapers
• 1910-1940 microfilm for the Southeastern Michigan area
• Early Woodmere Cemetery transcriptions were done by our society
• Complete Holy Cross Cemetery transcriptions done by our society
• 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’
• Many local high school yearbooks
• Digitized Downriver Newspapers – Phase One includes those newspapers that are smaller in size and were scanned using our existing equipment. These Phase One newspapers are now available to search and view on the Library computer. These papers include:
  
  
  • 
    Allen Parker
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    Brownstown Times
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    Lincoln Parker
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    Melvindale Messenger
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    Southgate Sentinel
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    Taylor Tribune
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    Woodhaven Times
  • 
    Wyandotte Independent
  
  
  • The Allen Parker 1987-1990
  • The Brownstown Times 1987-1990
  • The Lincoln Parker 1987-1990
  • The Melvindale Messenger 1987-1990
  • The Southgate Sentinel 1987-1990
  • The Taylor Tribune 1987-1990
  • The Trenton Times 1978
  • The Woodhaven Times 1985, 1987-1990
  • The Woodhaven Weekender 1964
  • The Wyandotte Independent 1987-1990