Hi and welcome to the Clare County Michigan website. This website is in need of a County Team Associate. Please Contact Us if you'd be interesting in helping to develop this resource.

We're really glad you stopped by and I hope that you find this website useful for your genealogical research.

The links below will take you to the various DataBoards and other resources for Clare County.

• Biographies
• Birth Records
• Cemetery Records
• Court Records
• Death Records
• Deeds
• Marriage Records
• Military Records
• Newspaper Articles
• Obituaries
• Queries
• Wills

The county was first named Kaykee after a Chippewa chief in 1840. An Irish surveyor in 1843 change the name in honor of the county of his origin. Clare county was first settled by William Crawford, a Civil War veteran, in Grant Township. It was here a sawmill was built and a village soon grew, and later became known as Dover. Lumbering was a major factor in the settling of Clare County. When the railroad arrived in 1871 the transportation system improved and more towns grew.

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