Washington State records find home on the Net

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Alton White

Washington State records find home on the Net

Legg inn av Alton White » 07 okt 2004 01:24:42

FYI.
This is exiting. I have already found a long lost relative in the 1883
Territorial Census. They have just completed Phase One with 3 or 4 more
phases to go. When finished this should be quite the recourse.

JOHN K. WILEY The Associated Press
CHENEY, SPOKANE COUNTY — Records produced by Washington state and county
governments went online Monday in what is being called the first facility of
its kind for electronically preserving state documents.


Housed in a new building on the Eastern Washington University campus, the
$14.5 million Washington State Digital Archives makes records and electronic
documents available to anyone with access to a computer, digital archivist
Adam Jansen said.


Records previously kept only in county courthouses can now be seen from home
without fear of them being damaged, officials said.


"This type of information is made to be used. You won't hurt it over the
Internet," Chelan County Auditor Evelyn Arnold said. "Any time we can help
our public in getting the information that is truly theirs, that is a great
step forward."


This is a pet project of Secretary of State Sam Reed, who called the archive
"the first state-of-the-art facility like this in the nation."


The archive allow users to look up county birth, death and marriage records,
military and immigration documents, and other historic records

Visit the Web site: http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov
(Published 12:10PM, October 5th, 2004)

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