Ottawa County

Ottawa County Clerk
12220 Fillmore Street, Room 130
West Olive, MI 49460
Phone: 616-994-4531
Fax:
Web: http://www.miottawa.org/CoGov/Clerk/

Genealogy Research Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Identification Requirements: Drivers License

Certified Copy/Additional: $10.00/$4.00

Genealogy Record Copy: n/a

Other Copy Fees: $ .50 per page (photocopies); $1.00 per additional page (first copy of Military Discharge is free)

Comments: Space allows for three to four genealogists at one time. Children are allowed.

Births: 1866 to present. 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 the date and place of death of the registrant when requesting a copy. This policy is in accordance with MCL 333.2882.

Deaths: 1867 to present

Marriages:1848 to present

Divorces: 1898 to present

Naturalization Records: 1852 to 1910; Petition for Naturalization: 1907 to 1911; Declaration of Intention: 1910 to 1929. Original records have been given to the Archives of Michigan. We have 35mm microfilm, but our microfilm machine only takes 16mm film at the present time.

Criminal Cases: 1859 to present

Other: 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