Welcome to Stevens County

NeWGS is based in Colville, WA, which is located in Stevens County. At one time Stevens County covered most of the northeast part of our state, including what is now Ferry and Pend Oreille counties. It was formed in 1863 from Walla Walla County, with Ferry County breaking away in 1899 and Pend Oreille in 1911. Some early records for those counties are to be found in Stevens county materials, some of which date back to 1861. If you have ancestors or family in the area, please explore our site.

Next meeting

June 13, 2012 Screen Capture Software Demonstration. The Computer Interest Group will meet in the basement of the Colville Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Have you ever wished you could just copy what you see on your computer screen and put it in a document? NeWGS member, Lora Rose will demonstrate two unique free screen capture software programs. Following is the definition of "screen capture" to help explain what we will be learning about:

Screen Capture refers to the act of copying what is currently displayed on a screen to a file or printer. If the system is in graphics mode, the screen capture will result in a graphics file containing a bit map of the image. If the system is in text mode, the screen capture will normally load a file with ASCII codes.

The afternoon meeting takes place at 1:30 p.m. in the basement meeting room of the Family History Center located in the LDS Church at 260 E. Juniper in Colville. After a shor tbusiness meeting we will be viewing the video "From Rivers to Trails to Road to Canals to Trains - How Transportation Set Genealogical Patterns" as narrated by Dr. George Schweitzer, who has authored 220 publications , including 19 genealogical guidebooks. Professor Schweitzer uses historical reenactment to teachy genealogy and has traced many of his ancestral lines back to the early 1500's. He has lectured to over 200 genealogical and historical societies in the US, Canada, England and Germany.

Both meetings are open to guests as well as members and anyone with an interest in tracing their family history.

Polk Directory available for searching

The 1911-1912 Polk Directory for Stevens, Ferry and Pend Oreille counties is now available online. Check it out under "Searches" at the left.

Publications for sale

Recently reprinted! "Pioneers of Happy Hill" by Jim McMillan

Another new publication by local historian Patrick Graham ...."Colville Collection Book Four - Old Dominion Mine...the mine that saved Colville and Jimmie Durkin...a man of his word" - available NOW!

NeWGS now has more local history, other books, and CDs for sale. Download an order form or order from our Store.

NeWGS Projects

Check out what has been happening at Evergreen Cemetery this summer!

Share your Stevens County photos - click here for details

NeWGS now has over 455,000 entries in their various databases! Let us help you find your Stevens County ancestors. Contact us.

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