'Seeking Michigan' Web Site Employs Technology to Deliver Michigan's History

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Clark noted that seeking Michigan will open up Michigan's history to a whole new market of information hunters. "Seeking Michigan is definitely a big boost for those who already have an interest in our state's history, including scholars, authors, genealogists and publishers," she said. "What we're very excited about is the prospect of introducing new generations of Michigan residents to the Michigan they thought they knew and helping them forge connections with our state's remarkable past."

"Seeking Michigan takes great information from both of our agencies and makes it available to everyone in a convenient and easy-to-navigate Web site," said Sandra Clark, director of the Michigan Historical Center. "We were inspired by the state motto in designing the site. If you look, you will discover stories, photos and much more to connect you to our state's pleasant peninsulas and one-of-a-kind past."

Seeking Michigan was made possible with generous funding from the Talbert and Leota Abrams Foundation, a Lansing-based nonprofit that primarily focuses on funding library and educational science programs. Since the mid-1980s, the Abrams Foundation has provided more than $2.5 million toward the development of the Library of Michigan's and Archives of Michigan' genealogy collection, including the digitization of the death records so crucial to family historians' research efforts.

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'Seeking Michigan' Web Site Employs Technology to Deliver Michigan's History

The Department of History, Arts and Libraries recently launched the seeking Michigan Web site (www.seekingmichigan.org). a growing collection of unique historical information that ...

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