NW Room Tacoma Public Library... I have not been to all the genealogy research sources in Washington State but the NW Room at the Tacoma Library ranks easily in my top 3 because of it's extensive indexing, great volunteers, specific local historical reference collection and large general history genealogy section. Plus it's easy to look at (the building is the original Carnegie Library) and well maintained. Online at http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/v2/NWRoom/nwroom.htm It offers 9 Specific sections of historical/genealogy recourses. For those of you always looking for a Washington Place Name, Information on early ships/shipping (13,000 entry database), or Weird and Unsettling Events... It's online at the NW Room. I planned this trip because I needed to do obituary lookups... over 80 of them. I found more over 50 online before I left home using the newspaper obituary index and then found more just scrolling through the pages. The Tacoma News Tribune not only has Tacoma ob! its but I found obits for Auburn, Bremerton, Fort Lewis, Sumner, and Puyallup. The microfilm was nearly scratch free and the machines themselves very well maintained. The cost of a microfilm copy was 20 cents. Photo copies were 10 cents. Coin machine easy to find. Did I mention the staff... and the volunteers.... Polite, wonderful, friendly and acknowledgeable... who volunteered information about the research sources they held? Only down side... It's at the top of some very steep hills, the parking lot is no longer free, and it's closed on Sundays. So what's your favorite research place?Darilee [email protected] http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington