The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Is Eager to Assist with Your Family History

The Eastern Washington Genealogical Society is eager to assist with your family history search in the Inland Northwest area. A list of the most-used genealogical resources in our reference library, which we will be happy to search for you, follows this request form.

We suggest that you print out two copies of this request form...one for your records and one to send to EWGS.

Please supply as much of the following information as you can for the person/family for whom you are requesting a search:

Principle Name: ______

Birth date: ______Birthplace: ______

Death date: ______Death place: ______

Spouse Name: ______

Birth date: ______Birthplace: ______

Death date: ______Death place: ______

Marriage Date: ______Marriage Place: ______

Children’s’ names: ______

Miscellaneous (i.e., do you know the occupation? Cemetery? Area they lived? Etc.)

Please give us your information:

Name: ______

Address: ______

Phone: (___)______

Email: ______

Our fee for a search of 5 items is $15.00. For $30 we will search all items on the list. We offer the following list of resources for the principle name/family that you listed above. The fee includes copies of what we found. If we discover a large amount of information on your person or family, we will contact you to discuss additional research fees. Please send your check or money order (no stamps, cash, or credit cards) to the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society, PO Box 1826, Spokane, WA 99210-1826.

Date mailed to EWGS: ______

_____ History of Spokane County by J. Edwards, 1900

_____ Spokane & Inland Empire, by N. Durham, 1912, 3 Volumes

_____ History of Big Bend Country: Lincoln, Douglas, Adams, & Franklin

Counties, 1902

_____ Rural Spokane County Cemeteries (compiled mid-70s)

_____ Whitman County Tombstone Inscriptions (compiled mid-70s)

_____ Lincoln County Tombstone Inscriptions (compiled mid-70s)

_____ Pend Oreille County Tombstone Inscriptions (compiled mid-70s)

_____ Adams County Tombstone Inscriptions (compiled mid-70s)

_____ Holy Cross Cemetery Records (Catholic), Sept 1931-1991

_____ Cemetery Record of War Veterans Buried in Spokane County

(Compiled in 1954 by American Legion)

_____ Smith Funeral Home Records, 1890-1906 (to 1960s, coming)

_____ Buchanan Funeral Home Records, 2 Nov 1901-28 Nov 1914

_____ New England Funeral Home Records, 10 March 1905 – 12 Dec 1929

_____ Turnbull Funeral Home Records, 11 Jan 1911 – 27 Jan 1949

_____ Thornhill Funeral Home Records, 1 Nov 1929 – 28 Dec 1966

_____ Bumgarner Funeral Home 31 Aug 1938 – 15 April 1954

_____ Spokane County Early Wills, 1891-1900

_____ Spokane County Marriages, 1880 - 1972

_____ Family Records of Washington Pioneers, compiled in 1930s by the DAR;

only ancestors in Washington prior to 1891 are included; information

might include Bible records, charts and personal stories.

_____ Washington State Death Index, 1907-1940 (1940 on is on Ancestry.com)

_____ Spokane (& Suburban Areas) City Directories, 1889-present

_____ Indexes to 1905 and 1912 Plat Maps of Spokane

_____ Index to Spokane file of pictures, people, and buildings (file in SPL’s Northwest

Room)