Lewis County Washington Genealogy

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Washington State Vital Records
Department of Health
Center for Health Services
PO Box 9709
Olympia, WA 98507-9709
Phone: (360) 753-5936
Fax: (360) 352-2586
Washington State Public Records Disclosure
Municipal Research & Services Center of Washington

Lewis County Washington Vital Records
Lewis County Auditor's Office
Legal Records Department [Marriage]
351 NW North Street
PO Box 29
Chehalis, WA 98532-0029
Phone: (360) 740-1165
Lewis County Clerk [Divorce, Adoption]
Mailing Address:
360 NW North Street
MS: CLK01
Chehalis, WA 98532
Phone: (360) 740-1177 [Probate, Adoption]
Phone: (360) 740-2756 [Vault Records]
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Lewis County
PoliticalGraveyard.com
Lewis County Washington Cemeteries
I Dream of Genealogy
Lewis County Washington Cemetery Registrations
USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project

Centralia Chronicle Advertiser (Centralia, Washington)
Ancestry.com
The Daily Chronicle
321 N. Pearl Street
Centralia, WA 98531-4323
Phone: (360) 736-331
Obituaries
The East Lewis County Journal
Morton, WA 98356
Phone: (360) 496-5993
Tacoma Area Obituaries [Including Lewis County]
Tacoma Public Library - Searchable Database
Obituary Collection
Ancestry.com
Read Historic Newspapers Online
Ancestry.com
Washington Obituaries Project
USGenWeb Archives Obituary Project

Washington State Census & Naturalization
Records - Searchable Database
secstate.wa.gov
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,588,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.

Lewis County, Washington World War II Casualties Army and Airforce
AccessGenealogy.com
U.S. Compiled Revolutionary War Military Service Records, 1775-1783
Ancestry.com
U.S. Military Discharge Documents
Ancestry.com
U.S. Military Reserves, 1778-1816
Ancestry.com
Military Records Collection
Ancestry.com
Washington Soldiers Home & Colony
SecState.wa.gov
[Search the 9,170 veterans who lived at the Washington Soldiers Home & Colony between 1890 - 1970. These names were taken from the Application for Admission. Additional information not found in database but included on the document is date of birth, occupation, marital status, number of children, nearest relative, residence, length of residence in Washington, and military record.]
Washington State Veterans Records
secstate.wa.gov/archives
Washington Veterans Home
SecState.wa.gov
[This database is an index to the veterans housed at the Veterans Home in Restil from 1910 to 1977. These names were taken from the Application for Admission. Additional information not found in database but included on the document is date of birth, occupation, marital status, number of children, nearest relative, residence, length of residence in Washington, and military record.]
USGenWeb Pensions Project
USGenWeb Archives

Seatco Prison at Bucoda
secstate.wa.gov
[ This database contains the prison register of more than 500 inmates housed in the Seatco Prison. The Prison operated from 1877 until 1888 when the new Territorial Penitentiary was built in Walla Walla.]
Washington Oaths of Office
secstate.wa.gov
[Search here for names of nearly 16,000 elected officials who took an oath of office between 1854 and 1978.]
Washington Physicians
secstate.wa.gov
[Search here for vital information of more than 9,000 licensed physicians who practiced in Washington between 1872 through 1938]
Washington Poorhouse History
poorhousestory.com
Washington School Records
idreamof.com
Washington State School Records
secstate.wa.gov/archives

Lewis County Historical Museum
599 NW Front Way
Chehalis, Washington 98532
Phone (360) 748-0831
Veteran's Memorial Museum
712 West Main Street
Centralia, WA 98531
Phone: (360) 330-7913

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Lewis County Washington Genealogy (Including: Centralia, Chehalis, Glenoma, Mineral, Morton, Mossyrock, Napavine, Packwood, Randle, Salkum, Toledo, Winlock) Established: December 21, 1845 Original County County Seat: Chehalis