Kalkaska County Clerk
605 North Birch Street
Kalkaska, MI 49646
Phone: 231-258-3300
Fax: 231-358-3337

Genealogy Research Hours: Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call before coming. Due to small office and small staff, mandated services take priority.

Identification Requirements: Pictured ID (lineage for Birth Records)

Certified Copy/Additional: $5.00/$2.00

Genealogy Record Copy: We cannot provide photocopies from our large journals. Certified only.

Other Copy Fees: n/a

Comments: Space allows for one genealogist at a time. Children are not encouraged to attend.

Births: 1871 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 (lineage proven) 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: 1871 to present

Marriages: 1871 to present

Divorces: Only last 30 to 35 years. Files were purged by SCAO.

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