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  • Fiske Genealogical Foundation Library
  • LDS Family History Center
  • National Archives at Seattle
  • North Olympic Library System
  • Seattle Public Library
  • Washington State Library
    • Clallam County Genealogical Society Library
    PO Box 1327 
    Port Angeles, WA 98362-0244 
    (360)417-5000 

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    Hours: Volunteer on duty Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm. 
    Located: Behind the Old Lincoln School at 8th and C Sts. 

    Suggested Reading available here
    Fiske Genealogical Foundation Library

    1644 43rd Ave E. 
    Seattle, WA 98122 
    (206)328-2716 

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    Hours: Please visit their site for hours, events, services
    LDS Family History Center 

    591 Monroe Rd  (about 1 mile south of Highway 101)
    Port Angeles, WA 98362 

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    Call to reserve computer time 360-565-8322

    Hours: 

    Tue 11 - 9 * Wed 10 - 2 * Thur 10 - 9 * Fri 6 - 9 
    Closed Monday, Saturday & Holidays 
    Call ahead as hours may change

    Scheduled closures 2002:

    July 4
    November 25 - 29 Thanksgiving week reopening Tuesday Dec 3
    December 16 through January 2, 2003
    Building maintenance ususally unannounced but generally in May and November

    Find your film numbers at home 

    LDS On-Line Family Search
    Access their on-line data base (IGI and Ancestor File) 

    "Research Helps"
    Worldwide guidance
    National Archives  at Seattle

    6125 Sand Point Way NE 
    Seattle, Washington 98115-7999 

    (206)526-6501 *** Fax: (206)526-6575 

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    Find your census film numbers before you leave home.

    Hours: 

    Monday through Friday, 7:45am to 4:00pm 
    1st and 2nd Tuesday each month, 4:00pm to 9:00pm (Microfilm research only) 
    Closed weekends and Federal holidays. 

    Directions From I-5: 
     

  • Exit I-5 at Highway 520 eastbound. 
  • Exit Highway 520 at the Montlake exit. 
  • Follow Montlake Boulevard north through the University of Washington. 
  • After about a mile Montlake merges into NE 45th Street and then Sand Point Way NE.   Follow the signs to Children's Hospital. 
  • The facility is located a mile north of Children's Hospital on the west side of Sand Point Way. 
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    North Olympic Library System

    2210 South Peabody St
    Port Angeles, WA 98362
    (360)417-08501

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    On-Line Catalog available here

    Pro Quest (Heritage Quest) research site 

    US Census and Genealogical Books on line --free to NOLS library patrons
    (You will need to enter your NOLS library card number)


    Suggested Reading available here
    Seattle Public Library 

    Temporary quarters July 7, 2001 'till 2003 (est)
    800 Pike Street
    Seattle, WA  98101 - 3922

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    Temporary site Genealogy Desk (206-385-4625)

    3rd Floor with History, Travel & Maps
    Space available for half of collection only

    Parking available at Convention Center

    1000 4th Ave
    Seattle, WA 98104 - 1109

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    On-line Catalog available here (requires telnet)

    Genealogy Desk (1st Floor)
    (206)386-4629
    Washington State Library 

    PO Box 42460
    Olympia, WA 98504 - 2460

    Inter Library Loan Service:  (360)753-4028

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    Clallam County History Available in the North Olympic Library System
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    A "Must Read"! "Jimmy Come Lately, History of Clallam County. A Symposium"
    Edited by Jervis Russell
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA, Clallam County Historical Society, 1971
    Index in separate volume; 631 p. illus.

    A "Must Read"! Sequim Bicentennial Committee. History Book Committee
    "Dungeness, The Lure of a River: A Bicentennial History of the East End of Clallam County"
    edited by Virginia Keeting
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Sequim Bicentennial Committee, ©1976
    190 p.: illus.

    LeWarne, Charles P.
    "Utopias on Puget Sound 1885 -1915"
    University of Washington Press © 1975
    A "Must Read"! Chapter 2 deals the the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony at Port Angeles

    Washington Territorial Centennial Edition
    Port Angeles Evening News
    Edition of Nov 28, 1953
    On Micro-film
     56 pages, mostly dedicated to the telling of the history of Clallam County in news and pictures
     Index of Personal Names, Articles, Advertisers and Photos

    "Sequim-Dungeness, a Look at Our Valley"
    Pub: [Sequim, WA]: Sequim Middle School, 1983
    64 p.: illus., maps, ports.

    Adamire, Buckley and Fish, Harriet U.
    "The Elwha: A River of Destiny"
    Pub: Carlsborg, WA: H.U. Fish, [1991]

    Aldwell, Thomas T., 1868-1954
    "Conquering the Last Frontier"
    Pub: Seattle, Artcraft Engraving and Electrotype Co.[© 1950]
    195 p. illus., ports., map (on lining papers)

    Bergland, Eric O. and Marr, Jerry
    "Prehistoric Life on the Olympic Peninsula: the First Inhabitants of a Great American Wilderness"
    Pub: [Seattle, WA: Pacific Northwest National Parks & Forests Association, © 1988]
    88 p.: illus.

    Bradley, Thomas Henry, 1838-
    "O'Toole's Mallet; or, the Resurrection of the Second National City of the United States of America"
    2d ed. Pub: [Seattle, WA, The Calvert company] 1894
    65 p.

    Brumfield, Willard
    "The Dungeness Raid"
    Pub: [S.l.: s.n.,1935]
    6 leaves

    Campbell, Patricia
    "A History of the North Olympic Peninsula"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Peninsula Publishing, 1979, © 1977
    68 p.: illus.

    "Seqium Pioneer Family Histories from 1850 - WW II"
    Forward by Al Courtney;  Museum and Arts Center, Sequim, WA 2000
    304 p.: illus.

    Crowell, Dorothy F.
    "Clallam County: 1941-1945"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Clallam County Historical Society, 1995
    12 p.

    Felt, Margaret Elley
    "Rivers To Reckon With: Rivers on the Western Edge of the Olympic Peninsula,
    the Hoh, the Queets, the Clearwater"
    Pub: [Forks, WA]: E.C. Gockerell & Craig Fletcher, © 1985
    88 p.: illus.

    Fernandez, George with Karolyn Burdick
    "Pysht Valley Story"
    Pub: 1997
    56 p.

    Ficken, Robert and LeWarne, Charles P.
    "Washington, A Centennial History"
    University of Washington Press © 1988
    216 p.

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Clallam County Railroads"
    Pub: [Carlsborg, WA: Harriet U. Fish,19 97]
    17 p.

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Tracks, Trails, and Tales in Clallam County, State of Washington"
    Pub: Carlsborg, WA: H.U. Fish, © 1983
    206 p.: illustrations by the author

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Sequim Bay "
    Pub: Carlsborg, WA (P.O. Box 135, Carlsborg 98324): H.U. Fish, © 1985
    12 p.: illus., 1 col. map

    Fourmont, M. Page
    "Silent Sentinels: Washingtons Early Warning Defense System of WWII"
    Pub: Port Hadlock, WA (3013 Rhody Dr., Port Hadlock 98339): M.P. Fourmont, [1990?]
    19, 8 leaves: maps

    Gregory, Vladimir J.
    "Keepers at the Gates" 1st ed.
    Pub: Port Townsend, WA: Port Townsend Pub. Co., © 1976
    367 p.: illus.

    Home Industrial Association
    "A Co-Operative Plan For Sercuring Homes and Occupations at Port Angeles, Washington, 1893"
    Pub: Seattle, Shorey Book Store, 1965
    16 p.

    Hoonan, Charles E.
    "Neah Bay, WA: A Brief Historical Sketch"
    Pub: Crown Zellerbach Corp © 1964
    29 p., illus.

    Hult, Ruby El, 1912-
    "The Untamed Olympics: The Story of a Peninsula" 3rd ed.
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: CP Publications, © 1989
    267 p., [16] p. of plates: illus.

    Hurst, Layton and Keeting, Virginia
    "How We Lived To Be One Hundred: A History of the Methodist Church in the Dungeness Valley"
    Researched by Marian Skinner
    Pub: Sequim, WA: Trinity United Methodist Church, © 1991
    105 p.

    Kellogg, Bert
    "Clallam County"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA
    47 slides

    Kellogg, Bert
    "East End"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA
    80 slides

    Kellogg, Bert
    "Port Angeles"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA 1995
    Slides(# varies), 1 booklet.

    Kellogg, Bert
    "Port Angeles"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA. 1985?
    80 slides, 1 sound cassette + 1 booklet

    Kellogg, Bert
    "Puget Sound Cooperative Colony"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA 1995
    Slides(# varies), booklet

    Kellogg, Bert
    "Sequim - 1"
    77 slides

    Kellogg, Bert
    "Sequim - 2"
    80 slides

    Klahn, Dorothy, 1908-
    "Mama's Dickey River Homestead" 1st ed.
    Pub: [S.l.: s.n.],1991
    184 p.: illus., ports, genealogical table

    Kofalk, Harriet
    "Torches To Guide Us"
    Olympic Peninsula History - Forks
    9 p.

    Lamoreux, Harvey, 1894-1979
    "Some Early Years in the Rain Forest"
    Pub: [s.l.: s.n.],1979
    27 p.: illus

    Lauridsen, G. M. (Gregers Marius), 1861-1940
    "The Story of Port Angeles, Clallam County, Washington; An Historical Symposium"
    276 p. front., plates, ports., maps, facsim.

    Martin, Paul J.
    "Port Angeles, Washington: A History" researched by Peggy Brady
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Peninsula Pub. © 1983
    illus., ports., maps

    McCallum, John Dennis and Ross, Lorraine Wilcox
    "Port Angeles, U.S.A." foreword by James Warner Bellah
    Pub: [Seattle: Wood and Reber], © 1961
    197 p., [16] leaves of plates: illus.

    Morgan, Murray Cromwell, 1916-
    "The Last Wilderness"
    Pub: Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976 [1st paperback ed.], © 1955
    275 p.

    Morgenroth, Chris, 1872-1939
    "Footprints in the Olympics: an Autobiography"
    Pub: Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1991
    215 p.: illus., maps.

    "Sturdy Folk: Personal Accounts of Life and Work on the Olympic Peninsula"
    edited by Mavis Amundson
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Western Gull Publishing, © 1994
    130 p.

    Northup, Ray Alta, 1880-1961?
    "Northwest Pacific Trails: New Pioneers"
    Pub: [Seattle, WA: R.L. Wood, 1980]
    153 leaves

    Parks, Marian
    "A Man for his Season, Victor Smith, 1826-1865"
    Pub: 1981
    126 p.

    Smith, Archer K.
    "Tragedy Graveyard, the Starbuck Ghost and Other True Stories"
    Pub: Archer K. Smith, © 1997
    56 p.

    Smith, L. (Leroy)
    "Pioneers of the Olympic Peninsula"
    edited by Dorothy F. Burr; ill. by Bonnie Burr
    Pub: [s.l.: s.n.], © 1977
    109 p.: illus. (some col.)

    Smith, Norman R., 1857?-
    "Victory, the Story of Port Angeles by the Son of Victor Smith, Founder of this City"
    Pub: [Port Angeles, 1950]
    1 v. (in portfolio) illus., ports.

    Wahlgren, Iva Hosack 1900 -
    "Memories of a Iva (Hosack) Wahlgren"
    Pub: Forks, WA © 1956
    133 p.

    Wahlgren, Iva Hosack 1900 -
    "Memories of a Quillayute & Sol Duc Country Pioneer"
    Pub: Forks, WA: West End Pioneers Club © 1998
    86 p.

    Welsh, William D.
    "Oscar Wahlgren Scrapbook"
    Photocopied reproduction with photographs, news clippings and remarks by William D. Welsh
    Welsh, William D.
    "A Brief History of Port Angeles"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA, Port Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1941
    32 p. illus. (incl. maps)

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    Clallam County History Available at the Genealogical Society Library
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    New! "Seqium Pioneer Family Histories from 1850 - WW II"
    Forward by Al Courtney;  Museum and Arts Center, Sequim, WA 2000
    304 p.: illus.

      "There Was A Day -- Stories of the Pioneers"
    Lonnie Archibald 1999
    256 p.

    A "Must Read"! "Jimmy Come Lately, History of Clallam County. A Symposium"
    Edited by Jervis Russell Pub: Port Angeles, WA, Clallam County Historical Society, 1971
    Index in separate volume; 631 p. illus.

    A "Must Read"! Sequim Bicentennial Committee. History Book Committee
    "Dungeness, The Lure of a River: A Bicentennial History of the East End of Clallam County"
    edited by Virginia Keeting Pub: Port Angeles, WA
    Sequim Bicentennial Committee, ©1976
    190 p.: illus.

    Aldwell, Thomas T., 1868-1954
    "Conquering the Last Frontier"
    Pub: Seattle, Artcraft Engraving and Electrotype Co.[© 1950]
    195 p. illus., ports., map (on lining papers)

    Alexander, Alice Bretches
    "A Pioneer Family-Homesteading the Upper Elwah River Valley"
    © 1993

    Very useful! "Atlas of Jefferson and Clallam Counties"
    Totem Publications
    © 1994

    Butcher, Darlene
    "An Economic History of Clallam Bay/Sekiu 1870 - 1980"

    Campbell, Patricia
    "A History of the North Olympic Peninsula"
    Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Peninsula Publishing, 1979, © 1977
    68 p.: illus.

    Evans, Gail
    "Historic Resouce Study of Olympic National Park"
    ©1984

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Track, Trails, and Tales in Clallam County, State of Washington"
    Pub: Carlsborg, WA: H.U. Fish, © 1983
    206 p.: illustrations by the author

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "This is What Was Down That Road"
    map, pic, illus. © 1979

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Lake Crescent 1900 - 1940"
    © 1985

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Carlsborg"
    © 1993

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Diamond Point Quarantine Station"
    © 1992

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Tri-Hamlets: Port Crescent, Gettysburg, and Joyce"
    © 1994

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of Sequim Bay"
    © 1985

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Fish Tales of New Dungeness Lighthouse"
    © 1997

    Fish, Harriet U.
    "Irrigation in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley--It's Arrival, Growth & Future"
    © 1995


    Foss, Carol
    "Olympic Peninsula People as Subjects of Feature Articles in the Port Angeles Evening News
    1964 and Before"
    ©  2000

    Lauridsen, GM. and Smith, A. A. and Smith
    "The Story of Port Angeles and Clallam County Washington"
    Pub: Lowman & Hanford Co., Seattle, WA © 1937

    Martin, Paul J.
    "Port Angeles, Washington: A History"
    researched by Peggy Brady Pub: Port Angeles, WA: Peninsula Pub. © 1983
    illus., ports., maps

    McCallum, John and Ross, Lorraine Wilcox
    "Port Angeles, U.S.A." foreword by James Warner Bellah
    Pub: [Seattle: Wood and Reber], © 1961
    197 p., [16] leaves of plates: illus.

    McLaughlin, Inez
    "We Grew Up Together" © 1959

    Robinson, June
    "The Norwegian Memorial"
    12 pgs; map   © 2000

    Robinson, June
    "The Chilean Memorial"
    14 pgs; illus; map  © 2000

    Robinson, June
    "The Wreck of the Austria"
    ©2000

    "Sturdy Folk: Personal Accounts of Life and Work on the Olympic Peninsula"
    edited by Mavis Amundson Pub: Port Angeles, WA
    Western Gull Publishing, © 1994
    130 p.

    "Forks Loggers Memorial - A Tribute"
    Forks, WA © 1994

    "Port Angeles, Gateway City"
    Republic Press, Yakima, WA abt 1957
    pics

    "Homestead Experiences & Other Pioneer Stories"
    Pub: Homestead Club of Port Angeles © 1975

    Roe, JoAnn
    "Ghost Camps and Boom Towns"
    Montvista Press, Bellingham, WA © 1995
    ISBN 0-931551-19-6

    Smith, L. (Leroy)
    "Pioneers of the Olympic Peninsula" edited by Dorothy F. Burr
    ill. by Bonnie Burr Pub: [s.l.: s.n.], © 1977
    109 p.: illus. (some col.)

    Welsh, William D
    "A Brief History of Port Angeles, Washington"
    29 pgs; map; illus    1941
    "Celebrate the Journey"
    Diamond Jubilee of the First Presbyterian Church in Port Angeles
    71 pg; illus; indexed  1989

    "Port Angeles Centennial"
    illus; 40 pgs  1962

    "History of New Dungeness, Washington Territory"
    Compiled by Mrs Irwin C Harper
    Typescript, 12 pgs; map

    "The Press Trail"
    20 pgs; map; illus

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