The Chehalis Museum in the Old Railroad Station has an obituary file. It might pay to look there first for obituaries. I know that a lot of the obituaries that I spent time searching for on microfilm at the Centralia library were in the file at the Museum. Had I known, I could have saved a lot of time. Judy -----Original Message----- From: Donna DeLeon <dldeleon@ix.netcom.com> To: WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com <WALEWIS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 9:01 AM Subject: [WALEWIS-L] [WALEWIS] RE:Best places >That's a tough one. You only have one day? If it is during the week, >you have >4 options. > >1. Southwest Archives in Olympia for land records, marriage >certificates and >marriage returns (applications). cost 15 cents per copy. (You should >call >ahead to make sure there is someone to let you in.) >2. Centralia Timberland Regional Library downtown Centralia for >obituaries (they >have The Chronicle on microfilm) >3. Chehalis Timberland Regional Library in Chehalis for census >information (on >microfilm) >4. Lewis county courthouse for some birth, death, and marriage >registers. cost >$1.00 per copy. (what they don't have must be ordered from the Olympia >Vitals >Statistics). > >I almost forgot - the Olympia Timberland Regional Library has the WA >death index, marriage index and divorce index. > >Take your pick and I will give you directions. > >I'm glad I live this close, because with what there is available to look >up >myself, it is very time consuming. Let me know what you are looking >for. >Perhaps I can help with some of it. > >Pollywogh@aol.com wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I will be coming to Lewis County in early August to do genealogy research on >> my husband's family. Where are the best places to go? And do you know the >> hours open? I will probably only have one day. Thank you. > > >==== WALEWIS Mailing List ==== >Make sure you also submit your mailing list info requests to the query pages on the County Website as well. You will reach more people, over a longer period of time that way than just through the mailing list.