Central Region, Washington State Archives
serving Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Okanogan and Yakima Counties
Linkpendium - Spokane
pokane County, Washington:
Family History & Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records & More
Eastern Region, Washington State Archives
serving Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla and Whitman Counties
Family Search - Washington Records
Here are a variety of categories of Washington state vital records. Click on the link and choose the category you would like to explore.
Family Search - Washington, County Records, 1803-2010
"Click on Browse Through 6, 880, 000 images" to find images of Washington Records. This collection is not indexed.
Washington State Veterans Cemetery Medical Lake
The State Veterans Cemetery, Medical Lake was dedicated on Memorial Day, 2010. Interments began on 7 June 2010. The cemetery office is open for pre-registration and interment applications. You may also down load the applications from the listing in the upper right hand corner of this page.
Washington Genealogy Guides
Kathleen Allen O'Connor, of Gonzaga University, began a project to produce a Washington State Genealogical Resource Guide. WSGS gave her a grant to help defray the costs of her project. She began gathering information from libraries, archives, societies, etc., for all counties within the state. Charles Hansen has now taken over the project. It is being made available here, as the counties are completed. EWGS member Charles Hansen chairs this project for WSGS.
Northwest Region, Washington State Archives
serving Clallam, Island, Jefferson, San Juan, Skagit, Snohomish and Whatcom Counties
Southwest Region, Washington State Archives
serving Clark, Cowitz, Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Skamania, Thurston and Wahkiakum Counties
Washington State Collections
Key word search (searches across the catalogs of all the branches, as well as the State Archives
Encyclopedia of Washington State History
Free Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History
Columbia River Basin Ethnic History Archive (CRBEHA)
includes over 1,000 photographs, documents and oral history interviews relating to the history of ethnic groups living in regions of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The dates of materials range from 1860 to the 1980s. In the mid-2000s additional materials from the Clark County Historical Museum were included with documents and photographs from the NAACP Vancouver, Washington Branch collection. Tutorials, lesson plans and historical overviews are archived on the site but are no longer updated.
Washington Women's History Consortium
he Women’s History Consortium partnered with institutions across Washington State
to create this central database of digitized images of primary resources related to Washington women’s history.
Washington Digital Newspapers
Washington Digital Newspapers brings together over 600,000 pages from Washington’s earliest Territorial newspapers to the present day. Freely accessible to the public, this growing collection complements the Washington State Library’s physical collection of more than 6,500 newspaper titles.
Washington State Heritage Barns
Created with the passage of Substitute HB 2115 in May of 2007, the Washington Heritage Barn Register commemorates barns as historically significant resources representing the agricultural, economic and cultural development of the State of Washington.
Washington State Executions
List of people executed in Washington
Only five people have been executed by the state of Washington since the death penalty statute was reformed following the 1976 Supreme Court decisions. Capital punishment was declared unconstitutional by the Washington Supreme Court in 2018.