DC, GA, WA, BC, and ID New Pages and Updates

Here are the latest updates and new pages. I added a few links for the District of Columbia and Georgia from the EveNDon website, then switched to Ancestry and USGenWeb to add all I could find on my home state, Washington, with a few links from neighboring Idaho and British Columbia. I do intend to go back and finish adding all the EveNDon links for the rest of the states, but it's nice sometimes to mix things up a little.

Speaking of EveNDon, I noticed when I was on the site earlier that there is a memorial to Eve, who passed away June 30th. How sad! She and Don have given the genealogical community such a gift by uploading these directories to their site and not charging at all to view them. The site does take donations, so I encourage you to donate something as a way of giving back to the genealogical community.

Some good news: The Got Genealogy? website has declared the Online City, County, and Rural Directory Site their July 2009 Site of the Month! I stumbled upon this great website a while ago doing a Google search for city directories and found Lisa's helpful free online newsletter on that topic. I wrote more about Got Genealogy? on my other blog here. Check it out! I'm sure you'll love all the goodies at Got Genealogy?!

I added all the Washington State directories that I could find anywhere online...mostly at Ancestry and USGenWeb sites. I believe that I have 99% of the directories available online for this state now linked on my site. There are probably a few out there that might be "hidden": Pacific Coast directories or British Columbia directories that might have some listings for Washington residents. I'll keep my eye out. Meantime, if you have ancestors or relatives from Washington State, enjoy the links! I am disappointed that there are not more free sites that contain Washington directories (most are linked to Ancestry). However, do not forget that the Washington State Digital Archives are preparing to upload many Polk directories for Washington communities to their website, hopefully in September. Volunteers are needed; if you would like to help this project along, check out this post I wrote in May.

New Pages

Fulton County, Georgia - with one link from EveNDon

Richmond County, Georgia - with one link from EveNDon

Bingham County, Idaho - with one link from Ancestry

Kootenai County, Idaho - with 12 links from Ancestry

Clallam County, Washington - with seven links from Ancestry

Cowlitz County, Washington - with four links from Ancestry

Franklin County, Washington - with one link from a USGenWeb site

Island County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Jefferson County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Kitsap County, Washington - with five links from Ancestry

Kittitas County, Washington - with five links from Ancestry

Lewis County, Washington - with four links from Ancestry

Lincoln County, Washington - with one link from a USGenWeb site

Mason County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

San Juan County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Skagit County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry and two from USGenWeb sites

Snohomish County, Washington - with five links from Ancestry and two from USGenWeb sites

Spokane County, Washington - with 13 links from Ancestry

Thurston County, Washington - with one link from Ancestry

Yakima County, Washington - with four links from USGenWeb sites


Updates

Articles - added two articles; one by Lisa B. Lee and another by Phyllis Matthews Ziller. There are now 16 links to articles that you can read to help you understand how useful city directories are and how to best utilize them in your genealogical research!

British Columbia - one link from Ancestry

District of Columbia - three links from EveNDon

Georgia - four counties total now linked

Idaho - three counties total now linked

Washington - 20 counties total now linked

King County, Washington - with 20 links from Ancestry and one from a USGenWeb site

Pierce County, Washington - with 20 links from Ancestry

Whatcom County, Washington - 11 links from Ancestry, 14 from USGenWeb sites, and one from the InternetArchive

FL Update and New MT and ID Pages

I forgot to mention yesterday that the Florida State page does have one link on it. Many of the state pages have links to statewide directories or directories that cover multiple counties or cities, so check them out. The links appear under the table of counties.

Yesterday morning, I added a Montana and Idaho State pages. Both have links on their state pages. Montana has new Carbon, Silverbow (Butte) and Yellowstone County pages and Idaho has a new Owyhee County page.

**Please note that I am going to be changing the way the pages open on the site. Instead of opening a new tab, pages linking to other pages on the site will open them in the same tab or window. However, links to other sites will still open in a new tab. It will take a while to change things over. I originally created the pages to open in new tabs because it was easier for me to cut and paste links from one page to another when I first created my site.**

Happy Hunting!