Hello, ListFolks! Mike Sweeney (WA GenWeb) forwarded information about new online resources - 1. The Washington State Library has begun scanning and indexing historic newspapers from Washington. So far, only one title is up, The Columbian from Olympia, published Sept. 1852-Nov. 1853. Two runs of other titles are ready to go as soon as they get them loaded. The images are available online and there is a searchable index that covers date, page, article titles, article type, and - for local news - keywords, subject and personal names. You find a link to the project at the WA Secretary of State History site: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/ or go directly to: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/newspapers.aspx 2. Military records available online on the Secretary of State's webpage - the three volume set of the Soldiers of the Great War is viewable; however, it is not searchable. A researcher would need to manually page through the book. Here is the URL http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/publications.aspx?s=5. Currently being indexed are the WWI serviceman cards and Aaberg-Case are searchable online and available from the Historical Records Search page <http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/search.aspx>; soon images of the cards will be available online too. There are also two indexes of WWI soldiers from Spokane County also available on the Historical Records Search page - Spokane County World War I Soldiers and Spokane County WWI soldiers in the Newspaper - and the former index has images associated with the index. Regards, Marge