Clallam County Genealogical Society
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The library is the heart of the Research Center.  It contains genealogical information from the United States, Canada, and the world with over 4,362  books, plus  periodicals, microfilms, and microfiche, totaling nearly 5,000 searchable items. We have resources on immigration, the military, and religious records. Our collection continues to grow with books donated by members and other libraries. 
  • The Clallam County Records Section contains Pioneer family files, Native American census and school census records, and Probate Index.​
  • Our obituary collection includes obituaries from the earliest newpapers to the latest publications.  Check our index.  Go to obituraries to print an order form.
  • ​​​Pioneer Family Files:   All files were developed by Society staff, family descendants and genealogists. 
  • Probate Index:  Abstracts of Clallam County original probate records from 1857 to 1965.
  • Surname Indexes:  Indexes for various organizations and events such as  the Port Angeles Reserve Jumpers, early Elk Club members, county school graduates and censuses, Puget Sound Cooperative Colony, Civilian Conservation Corps, Spruce Railroad Division, Naturalization and Probate Records. 
  • Early Vital Records:  Early birth and death records from many sources prior to 1907 - newspapers, early county records, midwives’ records, etc.  After 1907, vital records were sent to the Department of Health at our state capital at Olympia, Washington.
ONGOING PROJECTS:  
  • Obituary and Naturalization indexing
  • Deaths:  We have plans to index death certificates from 1910-1930's.  This project will not be started until some of these previous projects are completed.
We are fortunate to have a professional retired Librarian to oversee our growing collection. Browse our library database by clicking CCGS Library Catalog. Then, come in and review the books you found of interest in our collection, and use one of our convenient research areas.
 
A separate lending library houses books for members to check out.
 
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The General Land Office (GLO) Records website includes image access to more than five million Federal land title records issued between 1820 and the present.
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Brooklyn Public Library, Years available: 1809–1999
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This collection contains 1,184,384 issues comprising 15,568,802 pages and 52,061,807 articles.
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Chronicling America (ISSN 2475-2703) is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages.
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A free service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 4.1 million digitized pages published in Colorado from 1859 to 2023.
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The historical map collection has over 129,000 maps and related images online.
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ODNP is committed to providing free online access to historic Oregon newspapers.
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The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections are free to search, free to browse, and free to download. There are five collections on this site:
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Our neighboring Society to the east and south of Clallam County.
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Discover your ancestral town, explore geographic/regional based sections of the JewishGen site (Research Divisions),
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Census records and more
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Collections with Maps
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Meyers Gazetteer, a free online database consisting of over 200,000 villages, towns and cities in pre-World War I Germany. .
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The Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub is a searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes millions of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online.
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NOA
Historical Maps & Charts Collection contains over 35,000 images, including some of the nation’s earliest nautical charts.
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This collection includes The Behrend Beacon, Centre Daily Times Obituaries Index, Penn State Harrisburg's Online Archive of Student Newspapers, Hazleton Collegian Newspaper, Historical Digital Collegian Newspaper, Lancaster Farming Newspaper, Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers, Pennsylvania County Historic Newspapers, and the Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project
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Church and civil records. Click on the English flag on the homepage. Not all areas of the Polish Commonwealth are digitized in this work in progress spearheaded by the Polish Genealogical Association.
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The Society is open to anyone doing research within the borders of the old Commonwealth of Poland.
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The Seattle Genealogical Society (SGS) is an all-volunteer, non-profit educational organization devoted exclusively to furthering genealogical research, promoting interest in family history, and preserving records.
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Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 Explore thousands of detailed maps charting the growth and development of Seattle, other Puget Sound communities and more than 12,000 cities and towns across the United States.
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This site contains tools for finding immigration records, census records, vital records, and for dealing with calendars, maps, foreign alphabets, and numerous other applications.
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UDN currently offers 6.3 million pages from 374 newspapers. We are currently pursuing a three-year partnership with Ancestry.com to digitize all remaining Utah newspapers.
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Our Mission To support and promote family history research in Victoria, across Canada and around the world.
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Welcome to the Washington State Genealogical Society's website. We are here to help connect you with resources and services so you can advance your search for your Washington State ancestors and family history.
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WorldCat connects thousands of libraries’ collections in one place.
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Nurse Pettett's family donated her record book.
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Our collection of nearly 500 Pioneer Family files include information on those families who were here in Clallam County on or before 1889 when Washington archived statehood.
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River near the Sea: An Ethnohistory of the Queets River Valley
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A free online archive of many records of genealogical significance from all over the State of Washington.
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Check out our Genealogy Research Links page for Washington State genealogy web sites
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List of research library and lending library books
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