What's New

• 03/26/2012: More newspaper extractions, including: Awful to Have a Big Man Kiss You
• 03/25/2012: The Story of Gladys
• 03/23/2012: New obituaries and death info, including the following:
  - Katherine Oleson and Baby, typhoid fever victims
  - E. A. Smith, gave life for sister
  - Mrs. F. Heyer, dies on voyage
  - Frederick Graham, businessman
• 03/21/2012: New weddings:, including the following: Thorn and Hall and Koll and Guernsey, plus several others.
• 03/21/2012: New obituary listings (plus others):
  - Death of young, well-known druggist, Yorke Barrington
  - H. Dobson suicide
  - Julia Sholes death info
  - Police officer E. C. Osborne funeral info
  - Pioneer John Collins
  - Pioneer Richard Jeffs
• 03/20/2012: New newspaper extractions:
  - "Defending Sister"
  - "Assorted and Interesting" (area wide)
  - "Lost Boys"
  - "Tiniest and Cutest Baby"
  - "Drowned in Bay"
  - "Fun in a Court"
  - "Oratorical Contest"
  - "Edna May Nelson Holds Her Tongue"
  - "Girl of Nine is Mother of Four"
  - "Loves Mama Best"
  - "Notorious Cad Johnson"
  - "Woman Barber Faints While Shaving a Man"
  - "Little Prewitt Baker May Have Been Carried Away by a Cougar"
• 03/09/2012: WWI casualties carefully transcribed by me into a searchable database that took quite some time.
• 01/04/2012: New birth records added for several surnames. This is being updated as frequently as possible.
• 11/06/2011: New Lookup Volunteer! Emily Birch has generously offered to research in Seattle-area libraries, the National Regional Archives; local Seattle cemeteries and will photograph tombstones; local Native American archives (these archives are mostly limited to the peoples of the Pacific Northwest), which include genealogy, history, photographs, etc...
  
  What a fantastic and wonderful offer of assistance to other genealogists/family researchers! Thank you, Emily!
• 05/15/2011: New page: Divorces from 1909.
• 05/15/2011: New pages: 1907 and 1908 Weddings (more coming soon).
• 05/15/2011: New newspaper extractions: "Baby Lester Still in Jail" and "She Didn't Wear Clothes That Suited Him."
• 05/10/2011: New newspaper extractions: "Couldn't Find Her Clothes" and "Sisters Arrested in Hotel Raid."
• 05/10/2011: Additional birth announcements for 1907.
• 05/09/2011: New newspaper extractions: "Would Rather Hang Than Let Him See My Daughter" and "Grabs Live Wire, Victim May Die."
• 03/02/2011: New article in the History section about the sad fate of Agnes Covington, a young bride who was murdered back in 1907.
• 02/28/2011: Many new listings in the 1907 Births, Marriages, and Obits pages. Also, new individual obituaries are available on the Individual Obituaries page.
• 02/22/2011: New and interesting newspaper extractions.
• 02/22/2011: New page: Divorces from 1902 (a continual work in progress).
• 02/21/2011: New death/obituary listings for the year 1900.
• 02/21/2011: New marriage listings for the years 1900 and 1902.
• 02/21/2011: Just began a birth listings page, including births for the year 1900. Hope to have much more in the coming weeks.
• 02/19/2011: Added a link to an interesting biography about Doc Maynard on the History page.
• 02/01/2011: Created a Detailed Cemetery Report with new links, many to searchable databases. Also updated the Cemetery page for WA and USGenWeb onsite indexes.
• January 2011: Improved the search capabilities on the Search page.
• January 2011: Added the History page with a link to a wonderful King County biographies site.