As with any family history resource, it
may be limited or relate to a small area, but if it contains
information about your ancestors it can be a goldmine. If you have
relatives who lived in the Climax or Scotts area of Kalamazoo county
I have some good news for you. The Kalamazoo Public Library has
digitized three newspapers that are now searchable on their website.
They are:
Scotts Cereal 1905-1906
Climax Cereal 1900-1912
Climax Crescent 1912-2012
Yes, you read that right; the Climax
Crescent images go through 2012. So, if you are trying to track down
living relatives, you have a very good chance of finding them if they
live in Climax. If your family lived in Scotts, don't be dismayed
that that paper covers only a short period. As it is near Climax
you'll likely find information about your people in the Climax paper.
In fact, The Climax Crescent actually has the subtitle: “The only
newspaper that thoroughly covers the territory of Climax and Scotts.”
While I only have a few distant
relatives who lived in the Scotts area, I found a brief reference to
the Clemens family reunion of 1918 at Indian Lake in the Climax
paper. I failed to find any other description of it in these papers,
but armed with the date, I can scroll through the microfilm for the
Vicksburg Commercial the next time I visit the WMU Archives. With
any luck I'll find something interesting on my family. Maybe you can
find something on your family as well.
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