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Helen Collar Church Records transcriptions

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Summary

The Helen Collar Church Records are alphabetized transcriptions of cards that Clarke identifies as drawn from Beaver Island Catholic church records and Charlevoix County death records.

Evidence and limits

The series is useful as an attributed finding aid for baptism, marriage, and death material. It is not the original parish register or county death record, and it does not identify every church reference as Holy Cross. Links to Holy Cross therefore express the documented island-Catholic context, not proof that each card came from that parish.

See also

Sources

  1. Described in this archive: Helen Collar Papers web transcriptions.
    The editor’s note says the cards use “Charlevoix” or “Charl.” for Charlevoix County death records and “church” for Beaver Island Catholic church records. It does not identify every parish, original register page, entry transcription, or civil-record source.
    web · collar_church
  2. The held catalogue identifies the church-record series and its alphabetic pages. It is an inventory of the web transcription, not the underlying register or county death record.
    web · clarke_collar_catalog

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Helen Collar Church Records transcriptions”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/helen-collar-church-record-transcriptions/, accessed [date], citing Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, “Church Records,” Helen Collar Papers, accessed August 2, 2026. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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