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RESEARCH SOURCES IN STEVENS COUNTY
Our researchers will search the following records for you. Please send
detailed information pertaining to your family and what it is you are looking
for. Also tell us what you have already searched here so that we don't
waste time duplicating. Our researchers are all volunteers and we very
much appreciate a donation to NeWGS for the work that we do for you. We
also appreciate reimbursement for any actual copies we make and mail to you. Mail to NeWGS, c/o Colville Public Library, 195 S. Oak, Colville, WA 99114
and be sure to indicate it is for Research.
NeWGS members have been working feverishly the past few years or so to get our
indexes computerized. We now have almost 300,000 entries! We have by no
means indexed all the records for our county, but we have a very good start.
This is a continuing project so our indexes will continue to grow . Right now
the following indexes can be checked relatively easily by our researchers. Contact NeWGS Research Staff for more
information. Please be sure to include "Stevens Co" in the subject line of
your message.
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Census indexes: 1860, 1871, 1878, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1892, 1900,
and 1910 (most of these indexes are searchable through links at the
Stevens County
GenWeb page, or at the
Washington State
Digital Archives. |
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Courthouse records from 1860 extracted by NeWGS members (these are
miscellaneous lists such as tax lists, poor farm list, licenses, early
estates & guardianship, birth & death statistics 1891-1907, lists
from various courthouse offices (these records do not generally
include land, marriage, divorce or probate records) |
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Funeral home records from 1912 (Colville funeral homes only) |
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Local histories index (a composite index to all the local histories
written about Stevens Co) and an all name index to our county history
(Illustrated History of North Washington) published in 1904, including
Stevens, Ferry & Pend Oreille counties) |
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Marriages from 1859 - 1947 (this database is also online at
Stevens Co GenWeb)
- these records have been sent to the Eastern Washington Archives in Cheney)
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Military records (including discharges, roll of persons liable for
service in 1892, draft registrations of 1917, and various lists pertaining
to military service) |
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Miscellaneous index to names appearing in various other resources
(church lists, school yearbooks & lists, pioneer interviews, maps,
NeWGS photo collection, NeWGS genealogy files, published in "Pioneer
Branches", etc |
| County newspapers including Colville from 1908 (see list elsewhere on this site)
- not nearly complete but over 50,000 entries |
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Places & subject index (where we can search for mention of a mine or a
town, for example) |
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Scrapbook index (a collection of obits and other news-worthy items
taken from the Statesman-Examiner and from the Republic-News Miner starting
in 1986 and continuing to today) |
NeWGS RESEARCH FILES (these are other resources that have not yet been
computerized):
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Cemetery books listing tombstones in county
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| County Directory for 1909/1910, 1911/1912 and 1913/1914
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Dun & Bradstreet of WA, OR, ID 1909
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Maps (including complete set of 1933 and 1945 plat maps)
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Old brands
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COLVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY:
| Census records for Stevens, Ferry and Pend Oreille County on CD and
on microfilm
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Genealogy Section (over 800 books, periodicals, & microfilm)
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Pacific Northwest Section (with county histories)
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Washington State Death Index from 1907
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STEVENS COUNTY COURTHOUSE:
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Court records including divorce, estate and probate |
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Homesteads and land records
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Military discharges |
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Other misc. records (many have been copied and are at the Stevens County Museum)
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