I am a member of The Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County. The GSWC Webpage is very well done and gives a lot of information about the Washtenaw Co. research as well as links and advice for research beyond Washtenaw County.
The US GenWeb page for Washtenaw County is very well maintained; both pages contain a lot of valuable information; I encourage researchers with Washtenaw County ancestors to visit both. If you have information to contribute, please take the time to do so.
Washtenaw County has 20 townships: Lyndon, Dexter, Webster, Northfield, Salem, Sylvan, Lima, Scio, Ann Arbor, Superior, Sharon, Freedom, Lodi, Ypsilanti, Manchester, Bridgewater, Saline, York and Augusta. Wikipedia provides current information on the various townships, villages and cities in Washtenaw Co. The USGenWeb Page for Washtenaw County has maps and the 1895 Michigan Atlas has a Washtenaw County page that can be viewed online.
If you want Washtenaw County research done for you at a fee, contact me at barbsnow@comcast.net. The GSWC offers a research service for a donation of $10.00. The $10.00 is used to buy books for the GSWC library. As librarian for the society, I buy books and CDs that will help people with their research methodology, as well as provide source information for Washtenaw Coutny and Michigan ancestor. Our library is located in the Ann Arbor LDS Library, so it is available to a large number of researchers. Your donation will help us add material that will in turn help others. This is what I love about genealogy. My grandmother used to say "what goes around, comes around." And how true this is -- and in such a good way -- with genealogical research. For $10.00 you will get basic, but good research on one surname. It is important that you tell me what you already know, so we do not spend time finding out information that is already in your files!
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