There are many excellent resources outside KPL’s collection. Those in the immediate area include:
Details about these and other county resources may be found in Family History Research in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, edited by Mary Alice Benedict Grindol. Copies of the current edition can be purchased for a small fee from the Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society.
There are several excellent genealogical research collections within three hours drive of Kalamazoo, including:
There are many outstanding genealogical resources available on the Internet. An excellent way to start finding them is to browse through Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, which organizes the links into categories. A useful printed guide to on-line sources is Virtual Roots: a Guide to Genealogy and Local History on the World Wide Web, by Thomas Jay Kemp.
Links to many other useful web-sites can be found on the Library’s genealogy topic guide.