Kudos for our WA State Digital Archives!

Below is the first paragraph from James Tanner’s Genealogy’s Star blog for November 21st. This is a blog to which you might want to subscribe! Click to the blog to read his entire post.

The Genealogical State of the States

Posted: 21 Nov 2015 06:24 AM PST

There is no real second place in the list of the genealogically valuable U.S. state websites. The Washington State Digital Archives wins hands down, no contest. Unfortunately, although there are some other notable collections, most of the states have a miserable level of digital offerings. Currently, the State of Washington has preserved 165,412,383 records and made 64,505,776 records available as of November, 2015. They have also added 2,638,172 records in the past month. At the other end of the spectrum, most of the states make no attempt to systematically digitize their records and what they have preserved online is usually in a “Memory Project.”

One comment on “Kudos for our WA State Digital Archives!

  1. Judy Artley says:

    YEAH for our Washington State Digital Archives. I’ve tried to use MANY of the other states archives web sites and generally they are not user friendly.

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