A piece of information that my third cousin once removed (Third Cuz) was able to share with me is where in Lansing my second great grandparents lived – the Egans. The street still exists and here is me this morning in front of the corner where they lived. It is now an insurance company building.
Here’s the building where Francis Egan went to work every day, also photographed this morning. He was Deputy Secretary of State and a rep from Detroit:
I called down to the State Archives to see if they would have records on where his office was but I was told those records don’t exist but I might be able to find out which seat he was assigned in the legislature.
Wow. It is so amazingly easy to do genealogy on a person/place when you A. live there, B. speak the language, C. have access to the Internet to learn so much from others. I have lots and lots of choices among histories of Lansing that will cover the time period in which they lived here, too, all right in the library. Heck, I took these pictures on my morning break. It’s two blocks from my building to these places.
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