RootsWeb Rootsweb provides guides to genealogical research, mailing lists, links to genealogy sites and a searchable surname registry of more than a million names.
USGENWEB Project Site designed to "provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States." Also see the WorldGenWeb Project.
Federation of Genealogical Societies "The Federation of Genealogical Societies, founded in 1976, has three major purposes: serving the needs of its member societies, providing products and services needed by member societies, and
marshaling the resources of its member organizations."
International Internet Genealogical Society "We envision this organization as being key to worldwide genealogy. When we must we will store information, but for the
most part we would be an organization helping others to acquire and store
information in their own repositories, whether by funding, by sheer volume of volunteer manpower or simply through
technical advice. Linking all of this together through the master pages housed in a multi-lingual format in conjunction
with new standards, enabling software to access this data - all genealogists worldwide will have interactive access to all the information that has been placed online no matter where it or they might be located."
Cemetery Records Online Links to worldwide cemetery records includes a search feature allowing you to find records by surname.
Family Search The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints massive genealogical database of names searches their Ancestor database as well as the U.S. Social Security Death Index, the 1880 U.S. Census, 1881 British and Canadian censuses.
Federal Land Patent Records Searchable database of land patents issued between 1820 and 1908 in the Eastern Public Land States.
Social Security Death Index Searchable database of "records of deceased persons who possessed Social Security numbers and whose death had been reported to the SSA." This site is offered free by Ancestry.com. Other resources available by subscription.
Family History Centers A worldwide directory of the LDS affiliated Family History centers provides addresses of centers located in Washington State. The centers provide research help and access to the Family History Library's (located in Salt Lake City) many genealogical resources.
King County Library System
KCLS has a number of Specialized databases useful for family historians: Genealogy & Local History Online, New York Times Historical Backfile, Ancestory Plus (in library use only). You can use these databases within the libraries or access them remotely if you have a KCLS card.
Kitsap Regional LibraryKPL has a number of Specialized databases useful for family historians: Historical New York Times, Genealogy & Local History Online. You can use these databases within the libraries or access them remotely if you have a KPL card.
National Archives - Pacific Alaska Region This branch of NARA is located in Seattle. It holdings include Federal population censuses from 1790-1930, military, land and naturalization records.
Seattle Public Library SPL has a number of Specialized databases useful for family historians: Digital Sanborn Maps, Heritage Quest, Ancestory Plus (in library use only). You can use these databases within the libraries or access them remotely if you have a SPL card.
Sno-Isle Regional Library Sno-Isle has a number of Specialized databases useful for family historians: Digital Sanborn Maps, Heritage Quest Online, Ancestory Plus (in library use only). You can use these databases within the libraries or access them remotely if you have a Sno-Isle card.
Tacoma Public Library TPL has created a number of local databases useful for family historians researching Pierce County: Washington Place Names, Photography Archive, Obituary Index.
Washington State Archives, Puget Sound Regional Branch The Archives branch located in Bellevue has a number of records of interest to genealogists including the territorial census, marriage license records, voter listings and property records.
Portrait of a family ca. 1920-1940, courtesy of American Memory.
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Last modified: Monday June 20 2005 (mudrock)