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Adams County Obituaries
If you have ever been to Adams County (as many of us driving the route between Spokane and Seattle have done!) you know that it is a county of wheat and cows. Many of the original settlers of Adams County were Volga Germans, Germans who came from Russia, searching for a place to plant their wheat and raise their families. As the generations have expanded, the population of Adams County has dwindled. Many genealogists can trace their heritage to the wheat fields of Ritzville and Odessa but then are stumped when it comes to finding obituaries in the local newspapers. Sometimes obits were printed in the Spokesman Review, but when they aren’t there, where do you go? This is where Sue Gardner comes in. This genealogy angel has been transcribing obituaries from four of the newspapers that were published in Adams County and posting them on the usgenweb Adams County site. The newspapers cover from 1898 to 1964, although Sue is working to bring them up to date. This is a fabulous resource for all genealogists and deserves to be noted. And if you are lucky enough to find your relative, you have Sue to thank!!
EWGS 2010 Calendar of Events:
- July 31 - Walking With Ancestors, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Fairmount Memorial Park, 5200 West Wellesley Ave. Guided tour and bar-b-que, displays, how-to classes, free lunch
- September 11 - Visiting Civil War Battlefields - Bill Hire
- September 17 & 18 - WSGS Annual Conference - Journey of Discovery, 132 Kirkland Ave., Chehalis. Diane VanSliver Gagel presents four lectures Saturday, plus a Friday bonus by Steven Morrison. WSGS website.
- October 1 &2 - October Workshop - Thomas MacEntee (location TBD); Building A Research Toolbox; (Fri. eve.) Facebook for Genealogists; Become A Genealogy Blog User; Building a Genealogy Blog; and Google Docs For Beginners (Sat.)
- November 6 - Internment of Japanese Americans, 1942-1945 - Rod Tamura
- December 4 - Christmas Gifts For Genealogists - various presenters
See also their list of Genealogy computer classes.
The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society is here to help you! Volunteers are on duty every Tuesday 10 AM - 4 PM in the Genealogy Area to answer questions and assist researchers. Beginning researchers are encouraged to visit. Please call ahead (509-444-5357) if you are coming from out of town or to make sure that a genealogist is on hand to assist you.
Check flyers posted in the Genealogy Area for information on workshops, beginner classes, luncheons and other activities. Please feel free to attend all functions...and you are also invited to join the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society.
The Downtown branch of the Spokane Public Library houses a growing collection of genealogical resources, with special emphasis on Spokane, Eastern Washington and the surrounding states.
Resources housed in the Genealogy Area on the Third Floor include a collection of Spokane city directories, Spokane newspapers obituary indexes, census microfilm, periodicals, family histories, vertical files and much more.
Other resources of interest to genealogy researchers, such as the county plat maps, Sanborn fire maps, early Spokane newspaper indexes, etc are located in the Northwest History Room on the Second Floor.
Spokane Newspapers from 1882 to 1894 are on microfilm in the Northwest Room and from 1895 to present are on the Third Floor.
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