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Enumclaw Public Library
1700 First Street
Enumclaw, WA
98022-3091
Phone: 360.825.2938
Fiske
Genealogical
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1644 43rd Avenue E
Seattle, WA
King County Public
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A.A. Lemieux Library
Seattle
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800 Pike Street
Seattle, WA 98101
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of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA 98195-2900
Phone: (206) 543-0242
King
County Washington Archives
KingCounty.gov
King
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State Digital Archives
Washington Secretary of State
1129 Washington St SE
PO Box 40238
Olympia WA 98504-0238
Phone: (360) 586-1492
Family History Centers
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Auburn Washington
625 M Street NE
Auburn, WA 98002
Phone: 253-735-2009
Bellevue Washington
10675 NE 20th Street
Bellevue, WA
Phone: 425-454-2690
Bellevue Washington North
4200 124th Avenue SE
Bellevue, WA
Phone: 425-562-0361
Kirkland Washington
7910 NE 132nd Street
Kirkland, WA
Phone: 425-821-3939
Maple Valley Washington
26800 236th Place SE
Maple Valley, WA 98038
Phone: 425-413-7566
Redmond Washington
10115 172nd Ave N.E.
Redmond, WA 98052
Phone: 425-861-9273
Renton Washington
North
527 Mountain Side Blvd
North Bend, WA
Phone: 425-888-1098
Seattle Washington
14020 Ambaum Blvd SW
Burien, WA 98166
Phone: 206-444-6017
Seattle Washington
North
5701 8th Ave NE
Seattle, WA
Phone: 206-522-1233
Vashon Washington
9330 S.W. 204th Street
Vashon, WA
Phone: 206-463-1863
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King County
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Cities, Towns, Villages &
Communities:
Auburn, Bandera, Bellevue,
Black Diamond, Bothell, Burien, Carnation, Covington, Des Moines,
Enumclaw, Fall City, Federal Way, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kent, Kirkland,
Lester, Maple Valley, Mercer Island, North Bend, Redmond, Renton,
SeaTac, Seattle, Shoreline, Skykomish, Snoqualmie, Tukwila, Vashon,
Woodinville
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of cities & towns
Ghost Towns:
Franklin, Hot Springs, Krain, Lester, Nagrom, Osceola, Wellington,
Weston
Established: December 22, 1852
Parent County: Thurston
County Seat: Seattle
Adjacent Counties:
Snohomish, Chelan, Kittitas, Pierce, Kitsap, Yakima
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Vital
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Physical Address:
908 Jefferson St, 2nd Floor Seattle, Washington
Phone: (206) 296-4600
Mailing address:
401 5th Ave., Suite 1300, Seattle, WA 98104
*Vital Statistics personnel are available to assist you
in English and Spanish. Request forms for birth & death
certificates are available in English, Spanish and Russian.
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County Superior Court Clerk's Office (Divorce)
King County Courthouse
516 3rd Avenue, Room E-609
Seattle, WA 98104
Phone: (206) 296-9300
*Divorce Records before 1968. After 1968, they are held
by the Health Department.
- Puget
Sound Regional Archives
Pritchard-Fleming Building
3000 Landerholm Circle SE, MS-N100
Bellevue, WA 98007-6484
Phone: (425) 564-3940
Historical Divorce Record for King County 1853-1983
Records include:
•King County divorce case files, 1968-1976
•Other divorce case files present in civil case files,
1853-1983 (incomplete after 1972)
•General indexes (defendant), 1890-1976
•General indexes (plaintiff), 1888-1975
•Domestic relations index, 1968-1975
- King
County Recorder's Office (Marriage)
Administration Building Room 311
500 4th Avenue Seattle WA 98104
Phone: (206) 296-1570 | FAX: (206) 205-8396
*Marriage records before 1968. After 1968, they are held
by the Health Department.
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"Frontier Justice": Guide to the Court Records of Washington
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County poorhouses were common throughout the United States
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Seattle, Washington, 1903

Ancestry.com
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Seattle, Washington and Environs, Bird's-eye View,
1891

Ancestry.com
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History of Seattle, Washington : with illustrations
and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men
and pioneers

Ancestry.com
- Housing
discrimination in the Madrona/Denny Blaine neighborhoods
eases in 1956
HistoryLink.org
- History
of the Puget Sound Country, Volume 1
Washington Secretary of State
- 1853
Census: First census of Washington Territory counts a
population (exluding Indians) of 3,965 in 1853
HistoryLink.org
- 1880
Census: Population of King County nearly 7,000 and that
of Seattle tops 3,500 in 1880
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