United States Census
American-Family Immigration History Center
Provided by the Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. (If the website doesn't load, just keep trying; they get a lot of traffic.)
Cemeteries: Columbia County Heritage
A digital collection of headstone photographs, brought to you by the Columbia County Rural Library District in partnership with the Washington State Library
Early Schoolhouses: Columbia County Heritage
A digital collection of early Columbia County schoolhouse photographs, brought to you by the Columbia County Rural Library District and the Blue Mountain Heritage Society in partnership with the Washington State Library.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
Buy digital downloads, forms, charts and more.
Provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Genealogy and local history online. Search census records (1790-1930), Revolutionary War records, Bounty-Land Warrant Application files, Books, PERSI (index containing 22 million+ genealogy and local history articles) and Freedman's Bank (1865-1874) for family information. (Library Card needed to access this database remotely from home.)
Historic Washington Newspapers online
Kindred Trails:Worldwide Genealogy Resources
Walla Walla Tribe Genealogy
Local History & Genealogy Reading Room: Humanities and Social Services Division
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (Library of Congress)
Washington State Archives in Olympia
Washington State Library Digital Collections and Resources
A social mapping tool that aggregates historic pictures of places and tags their location onto a modern map so you can see your street as it appeared in the past.
Whitman County Heritage documents the early culture, industry, and community life of Whitman County, Washington and locations throughout Washington’s Palouse Region. The collection is a project of the Whitman County Library and local partners, funded by a grant from the Washington State Library.

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