Archives Index
Dorothy Hale Amis Collection: 3 Boxes, 37 Folders, 13 page index
The collection organized in folders contains information on the collateral
lines of her husband, Paul Courtland Amis back to Virginia and
includes information from her collaborator, Elizabeth Steadman Owings.
Audrey Bowne Collection: 8 boxes, 21 Notebooks, 70 page index
The goal seemed to be to obtain information on all existing Bowne families. Pages are primarily computer print-outs from various web sites, chronologically arranged by date of birth. Earliest American Bownes were from Monmouth County New Jersey.
Genealogical papers of Karen Elizabeth Cooke BRIDGEMAN, born 31
January 1941 in Seattle, married Chester Lewis Bridgeman Jr., 19 June
1959, divorced, 1962. She died in Seattle 22 March, 2005. Collection
consists of 8 banker boxes of files sorted by surnames: collateral lines
from Eneiz/Enochs from Illinois and Pennsylvania, and her father's Cooke
family from Sheffield, England. Surnames include: COOKE, ETCHELLS,
TOWNSEND, CLARK, PENFIELD, KENTFIELD, LOOMIS,ENOCHS, LEACH, KINKADE,
DOTTY, MARKEL & STINGLELY.
Jacqueline Cedarholm Collection: 3 Boxes, 27 notebooks/folders, 35 page index
Contains material on the Morgan Morgans Coal Mining family from Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales to Pennsylvania, and Placer County California where he discovered the Sutter Gold Streak and was superintendant of the Norton Black Diamond Coal Mines. The entire town later moved to Black Diamond, Washington. Material on Jacqueline’s father, Peter Francis Cedarholm’s of Ringavarum, Ostergotlands, Sweden is included.
Ruth Margaret Clark Collection
Genealogical papers of Ruth Margaret Clark, born 22 February 1923
in St. Paul, Ramsey County Minnesota,d 14 March 2000 in Tacoma,
Washington. She married 6 July 1946 to John Tilden Bacon. The family is
traced back to Samuel BACON b 1695, New Jersesy, and the CLARK family to
Jefferson Clark,born 1845, Knox Co. Ohio. The collection consists of 25
three ring binders and a packet of memorabilila, labeled by surname. An
index of surnames is provided.
Mildred Baptista Eaton Collection: 12 boxes, 63 page index
The collection consists of 12 boxes of materials
on Mildred’s Baptista and Videtta families who came from the Azores to
Petaluma California in the late 1800s and
her husband’s family, the
Eatons of Maidenhead, England.
Sue Eidal Collection: 6 boxes, 24 page index
The collection is of the Eidal and Churchill families who came to Ellensburg, Washington in 1887.The Norweigan Eidal families are traced back into the 1500s.
Bess Giesler Morgan, FIX Collection: 1 box, 3 page index
Morgan’s manuscript and collection of FIX papers tells of descendants of
Henry Fix, eldest son of Jacob Fix, the weaver,
of Birdsboro, Berks
County Pennsylvania, by 1739, Virginia and Ohio.
Genealogical papers of Paul Claude GIBBS born 18 December, 1926
in Hay Springs Nebraska, son of George Robert GIBBS and Genevieve Mary
REECE. He came to Seattle in 1931,practiced law, and married 10 Sep 1948
to Dorothy G. MORGAN. The collection fills two file drawers with accordian
folders of duplicated material on family lines. The duplicated
publications are not yet indexed, but the collection brings together
articles relating to the surnames referenced.
Priscilla Greenlees Collection: 1 box, 2 page index
The Greenlees collection comprises a single box of information on the Colstad and McKenzie family of Attleboro, Massachusetts
Genealogical papers of Patricia Ann Danials HANSON, born 15 April
1924, Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, Washington, daughter of Ernest Wayne Daniels
of Hartford, CT and Allie Gertrude O'Neal of Haughton, Bossier Parish New
Jersey, m 9 October 1943 to Ray T. Hanson. Her files are contained in
4-drawer cabinet, in colored folders alpha arranged by surname. A list of
the 120 surnames appears at the front of the file.
Euretta V. DeBoer Shirley Collection: 9 Boxes, 16 page index
Nine boxes of materials on the Dutch
DeBoer family
and Shirley’s
husband’s family illuminate their migration from
Holland and Sweden
through Iowa and Nebraska. There are many family photos.
William Merrit Smith Collection
Genealogical papers of William Merrit SMITH, born 4 April 1926 in
Tacoma, Washington, the son of Merritt Orthello Smith and Susanna Louise
LINDREN. He married 13 June 1940 in Oroville, Okanogan County, WA to Mary
Helen GROULX. The Smith line is traced back to Isaac Sheldon SMITH b 1765
in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut.The collection consists of 42
three-ring binders,labeled with major surnames, containing many original
family papers and photographs. An index appears at the front of the first
notebook.
Virginia LeMay Stender Collection: 17 bins, 37 page index
Stender’s interest was primarily in lineage
associations and her materials reflect her dozen memberships and their
royal connections.
The collection may also be of interest because of
her brother’s well known collection of historic automobiles at the LeMay
Museum in Tacoma.
Virginia Beatrice Crissey Wisner Collection
The genealogical papers of Gini Wisner of Bellevue, King County, Washington consist of 24 ring binder notebooks, each devoted to a single family line, or several collateral families. Many families are traced back to New England and surnames include: CRISSEY, DIBBLE, HAMMOND, HAVNER, HINKLEY, HULL, LUMBERG, McLAUGHLIN and REX.
William Thomas Van Kleek Collection: 17 boxes, 39 page index
The VanKleek collections consists of files on
many of the collateral lines that joined the family of Simeon Van Kleek as
William VanKleek
updated an earlier version of the VanKleek family
from Holland. Many early family photos are included.
Brian Lewellyn Young Collection
Genealogical papers of Brian Lewellyn YOUNG, born 13 February
1917, Yellowstone County, Montana, died 19 March, 1978, Whidbey Island,
Washington. They moved to Washington in 1920, and Brian married Arlene
Jones. The collection is housed in a two drawer cabinet with
alphabetically arranged file folders of family names. The top drawer of a
second cabinet holds Young's 58 page manuscript tracing the family back to
Vincent and Elizabeth YOUNG in Stafford, Virginia in 1657.