Hillsdale County Clerk
Courthouse Room 1
29 North Howell Street
Hillsdale, MI 49242
Phone: 517-437-3391
Fax: 517-437-3392
Web: http://www.co.hillsdale.mi.us/

Genealogy Research Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Identification Requirements: Pictured ID required for birth records, subject to restrictions listed below

Certified Copy/Additional: $13.00/$4.00

Genealogy Record Copy: $4.00 if photocopied, $8.00 if typed (fees are per page)

Other Copy Fees:

1. Assumed Business Names List - $0.25 per name ($5.00 minimum)
2. Qualified Voter File List - $0.02 per name plus $2.00 plus actual postage
3. Qualified Voter File address labels - $0.04 per name pluse $2.00 plus actual postage

Comments: Space allows for two genealogists at one time. Children are allowed, but may be asked to leave if they misbehave.

Births: 1867 to present. Earliest records are incomplete and difficult to read. Birth records are available only to the individual named on the birth record (registrant), the parents of the registrant, a legal guardian of the registrant, a legal representative of the registrant or an heir of the registrant. An heir is defined as any relative of a deceased individual. Heirs must supply a certified death certificate when requesting a copy. This policy is in compliance with MCL 333.2882.

Deaths: 1867 to present.

Marriages: 1835 to present.

Divorces: 1844 to present. Most divorce records prior to 1900 are at the State Archives.

Other: Criminal and Civil Court record searches are $1.00 per name per year. Example: A ten-year search of criminal records for one person is $10.00.

For additional local and state government records with potential genealogical value, see the Archival Circulars for records maintained at the Archives of Michigan.

NOTE: Please call before visiting or mailing fees to confirm hours and other specifics. This information is current to July 2002. If you find differences between the information here and the practices or holdings of the County Clerk's office, please ask the Clerk to inform the Archives of Michigan about needed revisions.

Anne Norlander, Calhoun County Clerk-Register, and Toni Fritz, the Clerk-Register's Administrative Assistant, conducted a survey of offices in 1993 in order to make this information available to the public. Calhoun County printed the 1994 Michigan County Clerks Genealogy Directory, prepared as a product of this inventory. The Archives of Michigan revised this on-line edition of the directory in 2001.

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Archives of Michigan
Michigan Library and Historical Center
702 W. Kalamazoo Street
Lansing, MI 48913
Phone: (517) 373-1408
E-mail: archives@michigan.gov