|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
Flag |
introduction
|
Seal |
|
|
|||||||||||
|
General Description |
|
||||||||||||||
Washington is a state
in the Pacific Northwest region of
the United
States. Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory which
had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by the Oregon
Treaty as settlement of the Oregon Boundary Dispute. It
was admitted to the Union as the forty-second state in 1889. The United States Census Bureau
estimated the state's population was 6,549,224 as of 2008. Nearly sixty percent of Washington's
residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area,
the center of transportation, business, and industry, and home to an
internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of
deep rain
forests in the west, mountain
ranges in the center, northeast and far southeast, and eastern semi-deserts
given over to intensive agriculture.
Washington was named after George Washington, the first
President of the United
States, and is the only U.S. state named after a president.
Washington is often called Washington
state or the State of
Washington to distinguish it from the District
of Columbia. However, Washingtonians (and many residents of
neighboring states) normally refer to the state simply as
"Washington" while usually referring to the nation's capital as
"Washington D.C." or simply "D.C." |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Historical Information |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
gen tool |
|
|
||||||||||||
GENEALOGICAL
ARCHIVES & LIBRARIES |
|
|||||||||||||||
·
Genealogical Resources of the
Washington State Library and Washington State Archives ·
Historic House Museums &
Historic Structures ·
Historic House Museums in Washington
·
Historical Museum Guide for
Washington State (Source: Census Finder) ·
Libraries of Washington State
·
Mining Museums and Miners' Memorials
for Washington ·
UW Libraries
Digital Collections ·
Washington Genealogy Records
(Source: The
Records Project) ·
Washington History
Washington State Library & State Archives ·
Washington Public Libraries
(Source: Public
Libraries Library Directory) ·
Washington Records
(Source: Footnote - Free Trial Available) |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL
SOCIETIES |
||||||||||||||||
·
Pacific Northwest
Chapter The Slovenian
Genealogy Society International
·
Pacific Northwest Cornish Society
·
Pioneer Association of the State of
Washington ·
Washington Museum
Association ·
Washington Society
(Source: National Society Sons of the American
Revolution) ·
Washington State Cemetery Association
·
Washington State
Genealogical Society ·
Washington State
Historical Society ·
Washington State Society
Daughters of the American
Colonists ·
Washington State Society
(Source: National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution) |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
STATE LIBRARY |
||||||||||||||||
Jan
Walsh, State Librarian: [email protected] Mail: PO BOX 42460, OLYMPIA WA 98504-2460 |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
HISTORICAL PLACES |
|
||||||||||||||
Adams
Asotin
Benton
Chelan
Clallam
Clark
Columbia
Cowlitz
Douglas
Ferry
Franklin
Garfield
Grant
Grays Harbor
Island
Jefferson
King
Kitsap
Kittitas
Klickitat
Lewis
Lincoln
Mason
Okanogan
Pacific
Pend Oreille
Pierce
San Juan
Skagit
Skamania
Snohomish
Spokane
Stevens
Thurston
Wahkiakum
Walla Walla
Whatcom
Whitman
Yakima |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
research by surname
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
The
following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
died in this U.S. State. |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
To find out more about
each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|
Use this free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
will create a series of different searches using tips or "tricks" |
that will
likely improve your results.
The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
the Internet to find ancestry information about this or any other Surname. |
|
|||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
Research |
|
|
|
||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Our
Ancestral Counties
The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a
specific ancestral county, go to our Ancestral
Locations home page. Here you will find
additional links to our county pages where you can obtain information about
our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our
database, who have lived in the selected county. |
||||||||||||||||
Click
on this thumbnail map for a full-sized version. |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Gazetteer
of
Places
|
|
|
|||||||||||||
The following Links will take you to
gazetteers that identify places within this U.S. State. These resources feature profiles of cities,
towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.
In addition this site contains maps, data and directions for a wide
variety of physical, cultural and historic features. |
|
|||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Cities in Washington; Towns in Washington; List of school districts
in Washington |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Washington Cities -
profiles of 2,594 Washington cities,
towns & neighborhoods Washington Physical Features such as lakes,
islands & steams Washington Cultural Features such as schools,
parks, hospitals & airports Washington Civil Features such as Native
Areas and Political Subdivisions |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
County Research
(Genealogical)
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
Clicking on
a Link
(below) will take you to the County’s website. Here you will find additional links to more
information specific to that location.
The USGenWeb Project also sponsors important Special Projects, at the national level, that
were created to collect and disseminate data that goes beyond county and
state lines. |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
Adams |
Ferry |
Lewis |
Skamania |
|||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
County Research
(General)
|
||||||||||||||||
|
Wikipedia is a multilingual,
Web-based,
free-content
encyclopedia
project based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link (below) will take you to the Wikipedia
article about the county. Here you will find additional links to guide the
user to related pages with additional information. |
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
Where in the World
are
My Ancestors?
|
|
|
||||||||||||
Resources
which enhance our knowledge of the places inhabited by our ancestors are
almost as important as their names.
The LINK |
|
to
the right will take you to Maps, Gazetteers, and other helpful resources
that will assist you in discovering Ancestral Locations. |
||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
The Google search engine button
and following web sites
may provide you |
with additional information to assist with your research about this
U. S. State. |
|
|||||||||||||
|
GENERAL RESOURCES |
|
||||||||||||||
|
·
Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia ·
Free
Genealogy Search Help For Google ·
Linkpendium > Genealogy
> USA ·
Ancestry.com
(Reference Materials & Finding Aids) |
·
Cyndi's List - United States Index ·
IGI
Batch Numbers - British Isles & North America ·
Libweb - Libraries
on the Web ·
50states.com - States and Capitals |
|
|
||||||||||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
LOCATION
SPECIFIC RESOURCES |
||||||||||||||||
·Washington State Facts and
Information |
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
|
|
OUR
GENEALOGY REFERENCE LIBRARY |
|
|
||||||||||||
The following Link will take you to our library of genealogy reference books that pertain to this U.S. State. Here you will find books about the history and records of this State, as well as its counties and other localities such as towns and churches. The collection also contains research works about State military units and personnel during America’s wars. In addition, there are resource texts about the ethnic and religious groups who settled in this State. |
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||
|
Contact information
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
Snail
Mail: Fred USA |
|
Pony Express: Tom |
|
|
|||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||
|