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Get Your Story Told
This project depends on “History Detectives” to help with all phases of collecting information and putting it together in stories.
For a quick slide show of the process check out Building the Archive.
Curiosity is the first quality of a good detective but you don’t have to be an expert at history or computers to be a big help. Everyone is good at something.
- If you are curious, you probably want to know what kinds of things “History Detectives” do. To start with, you can work at home on your own schedule or at a nearby museum or library organizing material or scanning.
- There are a lot of hand-written documents that we can use help with typing up or just indexing their contents.
- There are other papers with people’s names that we want to be keep track of.
- If you have your own photo or story collection, that could help us too.
- If you write or even just tell old stories, that could be very valuable.
- You could plan a tour or inventory collections.
- If you know genealogy that could be huge.
So if you like to poke around in the past for any reason, this project needs you. An easy way to contact us is to just post a comment to this page. Give us a phone number (We won’t publish it on this website.) We’ll call you and take it from there.
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I would like to help “poke around in the past”. I’ve always had a curious nature and have been doing genealogy for over 10 yrs. I find the whys and wheres just as fascinating as the whos Feel free to contact me about helping out.
evening phone: 206 523 5551
My calls are screened so it would help to send an email about who will be calling.
thank you
**sheila
Sheila:
I apologize for the long delay in replying to you. The holidays plus the fact that out of the 296 comments on this site, 294 were spam held up response.
Nevertheless it would be great to have your help. From your phone # you live on the west side of the state. From your name, you might be related to Elsie Thayer, the county Treasurer. My email is Joe.Barreca@gmail.com Let me know a good time to call you and I will.
Joe
I am lost in this site and can not find an area to ask a question:
Cesear Richard Musser -1 Oct 1918
I am researching this person as part of my family tree. I think you have misread the document–I believe through US Census, Ancestry.com etc that the names are Oscar (father and son) and not Cesear
The picture of the document cuts off with the fathers occupation. Could you please tell me what is missing? It might be important.
Thank you for any help
Melody,
I’ve updated the names database to change the name to Oscar. Extracting the names out was challenging and we appreciate any corrections.
The cropping at the bottom of the image is to eliminate any medical terms per instructions from the county prosecuting attorney’s office. In this case, it only says that it is a normal birth. There is no further information.
Sue
Volunteer for the Pend Oreille County Historical Museum
First, thank you for doing what you are doing. I am a descendant of Carrie and Abe Wurzburg. I think I can identify some of the unknown people in the pictures of Marcus. I also have others that could be added to the archive. In addition to photos, I have some very old moving picture films of Marcus that have been transferred to CD. If you contact me at my email address, I could send you my phone number and we could talk a little about the project and what I might be able to do to help. (Selma Peterson, the post mistress in Marcus, was a longtime family friend of my grandparents. I remember her well. She was a very dear person).
Hi,
My grandfather, Ernest Goodner, worked at the Washington Brick, Lime and Sewer Pipe Co. in the 1920s.
He graduated from U. of Washington as a ceramic engineer. He fired kilns and replaced the glaze maker who got mad about something and quit taking his formulas with him. I have my grandfather’s glaze book which contains a list of formulas he developed and the buildings they were used on. I also have several detailed photos of a few of the unfired statues that now adorn the Suzzallo Library.
I would like to donate these items to an institution that may find interest and value in them.
If you are interested please let me know.
Regards,
Chris