Gogebic County Clerk
200 North Moore Street
Bessemer, MI 49911
Phone: 906-663-4518
Fax: 906-663-4660

Genealogy Research Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. to noon, 1:00 to 4:15 p.m.

Identification Requirements: Drivers License Number or Social Security Number

Certified Copy/Additional: $7.00/$2.00

Genealogy Record Copy: $7.00/$2.00

Other Copy Fees: Circuit Court Records - $1.00 per page (photocopies), $1.00 plus $1.00 per page (true copies of records)

Comments: Children are allowed.

Births: 1887 to present. Birth information available to persons as defined in MCL 333.2882.

Deaths: Information available for all deaths from 1887. However, actual death certificates for photocopying purposes are only available from 1934.

Marriages: 1887 to present. Marriage records are cross-indexed in alphabetical order by last name.

Divorces: 1887 to present

Other: Veterans Discharges (DD-214): Approximately 1917 to present; Circuit Court Files: 1887 to present; Criminal and Civil records available to public.

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.

Click Archives of Michigan to visit the Archives of Michigan home page.

Click Michigan County Clerks for other entries in the Michigan County Clerks Directory.

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