Other Interesting Genealogy Links

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites for Washington State is an excellent, well-organized collection of valuable links for Washington researchers. Be sure to check out the other sites on her page, as well!

Other newspapers with online obituaries are listed at Genealogy Gateway.

The Political Graveyard has an interesting listing of political figures buried in the state of Washington.

Several sites list volunteers willing to help you in your hunt for that elusive Washington ancestor: try "Books We Own-Washington" for a list of volunteers.

To subscribe to the WESTERN-ROOTS-L mailing list (formerly NORTHWEST-ROOTS), send a message to listserv@listserv.indiana.edu; in the body of the message say SUB WESTERN-ROOTS-L firstname lastname. Turn off all signatures before sending message!

General Links:

If you haven't checked out the U.S. GenWeb Archives, you are missing out on an incredible volunteer effort to make public-domain documents available free of charge on-line. The newest project's goal is to place the entire 1850 U.S. Census on-line. Check out the states, and perhaps make a contribution of your own!

Rootsweb a valuable source for genealogists, including the complete ROOTS-L archives, the Roots Surname Location lists, hundreds of surname- and geographic-interest mailing lists, as well as a growing collection of searchable databases.

Searchable census records are available free at The National Archives, a U.S. government site.

Many of the online searchable genealogy databases can be accessed directly from this page (The Genealogy Sleuth).

The WPA Life Histories site (at the Library of Congress) has full texts of biographies and interviews conducted as part of the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940. Even if you don't find your own relative, the biographies offer fascinating insights into life in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

The National Archives has a site with on-line catalogs of genealogical resources, including census and immigration records, available from the Archives.

The US Gazetteer will display maps on-the-fly as well as population statistics taken from the 1990 census.

The USGS Mapping Service allows you to search for specific features (such as all populated places within Lewis County, WA), provides a list of results, and displays a map of specific selections.

The Social Security Death Index, as well as other databases, can be found at Ancestry, Inc (this site is often very busy or cranky--you will have better results if you search in off-peak hours). Information on ordering Social Security applications can be found at the government's SSA site.

HistoryKat contains digitized records and resources for local and family historians. Using a combination of images digitized for HistoryKat and related content from other sources, HistoryKat provides historical context to each record set, providing a greater understanding of why the record set was created and the environment surrounding the geographic area where the record was produced. The resources on HistoryKat are provided free of charge.

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