Michigan lighthouses

Department of better late than never on my part: If you like lighthouses, cruise on over to John Dempsey's Michigan Civil War Blog for pointers to a couple of interesting stories about Michigan and its 124 beacons, many of them historic.

An obscure research beacon

This month's "Genealogy Gems" from the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne (not yet archived here) includes a note by Delia Cothrun Bourne about NARA publication M1373, "Registers of Lighthouse Keepers, 1845-1912," nineteen rolls of microfilm complete with maps and indexes. The Great Lakes have two of the six rolls, 1845-1900 and 1901-1912.