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~ Pioneer
Certificate Recipients ~
A copy of these certificates
and the genealogies of the recipients can be viewed at the Berrien Springs
Library in the B.C.G.S. Genealogy Room.
Level 1:
Trailblazer:
Proof of relationship to anyone living in the County prior to 1805
(before Michigan
was made an official Territory with a "Governor".)
Level 2:
Founder: Proof of relationship
to anyone living in the
County between 1805 to January 25, 1837
(prior to Michigan
becoming a State.)
Call Number
Family Name Barcode
BCGS 929.2 PIO Eric
Matthew Krieger T 314
BCGS 929.2 PIO John
Harner
T 804
BCGS 929.2 PIO John
Johnson T 494
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Robert Farry
T 812
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Robert Foster
T 492
BCGS 929.2 SPI Spink
family genealogy T 361
Level 3:
Settler:
Proof of relationship to anyone living in the County between January 26, 1837
(Michigan's Anniversary) and December 31, 1862 (prior to the 1st
recorded deed in Michigan under the Homestead Act of 1862.)
Call Number
Family Name Barcode
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Frederick Radewald T 493
BCGS 929.2 PIO
George Brown
T 495
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Harlan Gene Quardokus T 430
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Lacey Brant
T 805
BCGS 929.2 PIO Mary
Evelina Pitch
T 241
BCGS 929.2 PIO Paul
Broius
T 497
BCGS 929.2 PIO Samuel
& Nancy Law T 411
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Virginia Handy
T 362
BCGS 929.2 PIO
William Denend
T 402
Level 4:
Homesteader:
Proof of relationship to anyone living in the County between January 1,
1863 and June 30, 1908
(whether they filed land under the
Homestead Act or not) this is Michigan's Homesteader period.
Call Number Family
Name Barcode
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Christopher Kugel
T 496
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Frederick Kupperness T 489
BCGS 929.2 PIO
George Edward
T 477
BCGS 929.2 PIO
James Hipshear
T 806
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Teresa O'Riley
T 429
Level 5:
Builder:
Proof of relationship to
anyone living in the County between July 1, 1908 and December
31, 1929 this was the last big immigration into the US before
the activation of the 1924 National Origins Act.
(The Act being
the first permanent immigration quota law, which established a
discriminatory quota system, non-quota status, and a consular
control system; also established was the Border Patrol.)
Call Number
Family Name Barcode
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Albert Wesley Howard T 410
BCGS 929.2 PIO
Lynn Albert Howard T 428
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