Subscription Sites

Ancestry -To find information on Lowell families visit the knapp family tree. Research complied by Lowell Area Historical Museum volunteer Dorann Truax
www.ancestry.com
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New England Historical and Genealogical Society  www.americanancestors.org
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Genealogy Bank  www.genealogybank.com 
Big city and small town newspapers from more than all 50 states.

Newspapers www.newspapers.com Big city and small town newspapers

Free Sites

​Find a Grave  
www.findagrave.com
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Seeking Michigan  https.//michiganology.org
Michigan Gen Web – all of the states have a genweb organization.  Use the post office 2 letter abbreviation for the state you want and then add “genweb”.  migenweb

Family Search https.//www.familysearch.org
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Kent District Library  https://archives.KDL.archives Lowell Ledger articles and obituaries
Internet Archive – If you are looking for historical information on places and some of the people who lived there try a history search such as “The history of Kent County, Michigan”.  Look for books about the area that have “archives” in the address.  You can search the book with names or locations and every reference to those will show up.  You can go to each spot in the book to see if it information you are looking for.  www.archives.org

DNA Testing

Ancestry 
www.ancestry.com

23andMe  
www.23andme.com/dna-health-ancestry/
 
Both of these DNA results are yours and can be downloaded to Gedmatch, which will give you more people to compare with.  
​www.gedmatch.com