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Guide to Asotin County Washington genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

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Asotin County, Washington
Map
Location in the state of Washington
Location of Washington in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	October 27, 1883
County Seat	Asotin
Courthouse
Address	Asotin County Courthouse PO Box 159 Asotin, WA 99402-0159 Phone: (509) 243–4181 Asotin County Website

Historical Facts

• Parent County: created 27 October 1883 from Garfield County
• County Seat: Asotin
• The name "Asotin" is from the Nez Perce language and means "place of eel" from the abundance of eels caught there.
• Neighboring Counties: Garfield | Whitman | Nez Perce County, Idaho | Wallowa County, Oregon
• Boundary Changes: No counties created from Asotin County.^[1]

Record Loss

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Cemeteries

Transcriptions of several cemeteries in Asotin County, many with a single burial, are available online at Interment.net. A listing of some additional cemeteries of Asotin County, along with some photographs of headstones, is also available online.

Census

• 1889
• 1890 Veterans
• 1900
• 1910
• 1920
• 1930
• 1940

Church Records

Court Records

Directories

Emigration and Immigration

Ethnic, Political or Religious Groups

Japanese

World War II Files, 1942-1946

Public Welfare/Social Security Department, (Japanese Internment) Assistance Cases, Evacuee Referrals for Resettlement and Assistance, 1945-1946 from the Washington State Archives – Digital Archives

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

Land and Property

Local Histories

Maps

• Family Maps of Asotin County, Washington (land patent maps) at HistoryGeo.com ($). Free surname search.

Migration

Military

Naturalization and Citizenship

Washington State Digital Archives has digitized various types of naturalization-related records, including declarations of intentions, delayed birth files, naturalization affidavits, notifications of application for admission to US citizenship, orders fixing naturalization terms, petitions and records, petitions, receipts for certificates of citizenship, record of final decrees of citizenship and record of petitions dockets. Depending on the county, records range from 1854-1988.

Newspapers

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate

Public Records

Repositories

Courthouse

Asotin County Courthouse
PO Box 159
Asotin, WA 99402-0159
Phone: (509) 243–4181

County Auditor has birth and marriage records
from 1891 and death records 1891-1907.
County Clerk has divorce and probate records.
County Assessor has land records from 1891. ^[2]

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Libraries

Museums

Societies

Taxation

Vital Records

Birth

Marriage

• Marriages from 3 Feb 1884 to 6 Jun 1907 are available on the Western States Marriage index website.
• Washington State Digital Archives has a database of Asotin Marriage Records from 1900 to 2003.

Death

• Washington Death Certificates 1907-1960 A free internet index to the 1907-1960 death certificates can be found at FamilySearch Record Search, no images are available. A transcribed death certificate may contain such information as name of the deceased, date and place of death, age, gender, birth date and birth place, mother’s maiden name and name of spouse, place of residence, occupation and certificate numbers.

Websites

• The Asotin County WAGenWeb Project, a member of The WAGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Asotin County.
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Asotin County. (Mirror site)
• FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Asotin County.
• Asotin County, Washington Genealogy and Family History (Linkpendium)

Places

Cities

Communities

Asotin County Washington Genealogy References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
2. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Asotin County, Washington page 732, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.

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