Port Angeles Washington Family History Center

The Port Angeles Family History Center is located on the south side of the Port Angeles meetinghouse. We serve the west end of Clallam County including the communities of Port Angeles, Sequim, Joyce, and Forks. All interested in genealogy and family history are invited to come to the center for assistance, to research, or to attend classes.

Center Contacts and Hours
Location Map:


 * Port Angeles Washington Family History Center Location Map

Address:


 * 591 Monroe Road Port Angeles WA 98362 United States
 * Enter on the southwest side of building.
 * Use the sidewalk from the parking lot on the south side to the front of the building
 * Enter the Family History Center from the first set of doors facing Monroe Road.
 * Please ring doorbell (on the wall to your right) for admission.
 * Language:English

Phone:


 * 1-360-565-8322

E-mail:


 * WA_PortAngeles@ldslmail.net
 * FHC Director: Michael Millet -  millet@olypen.com

NEW Hours in 2015 (Opening Wed. Jan 7th)


 * Wednesday: 10:00 am to 8:30 pm
 * Thursday: 1:00 pm - 8:30 pm
 * Friday: 6:00pm - 9:00 pm
 * Saturday: 1 pm - 5 pm (NEW as of March 7)

Holiday Schedule: The Center will be closed:


 * March 14 &amp; 15 - Stake Conference
 * April 4 &amp; 5 - General Conference
 * July 4 - Independence Day
 * November 25 - opening December 2 - Thanksgiving
 * December 20 - opening January 6, 2016 - Christmas

Calendar and Events

Upcoming Events

 * 'Class times: Friday evenings at 7 p.m. 'Handouts will be available at class time"
 * Jan 09 - What's New at FamilySearch
 * Jan 16 - Improving Your Use of FamilySearch: Data cleanup strategies
 * Jan 23 - Research Wiki, Research Courses and FamilySearch Forums
 * Jan 30 - Find Your Ancestors in the Newspapers
 * Feb 06 - Finding Your Female Ancestors
 * Feb 13 - Ten Hidden Resources you should know
 * Feb 20 - How to Add Stories and Pictures to FamilySearch
 * Feb 27 - Scanning, Digitizing, Editing and Preserving your Photos
 * March 6 - RootsMagic 7, What's New - An Overview of the updated RootsMagic 6
 * March 13 - RootsMagic 7 - How to set up and use with Family Tree without entering data into two databases. How to set it up from importing from Ancestry
 * March 20 - RootsMagic 7, Entering data, photos and stories along with keeping Family Tree current at the same time
 * March 27 - RootsMagic 7, Backup and restore your precious media files along with your data
 * April 3 - RootsMagic 7, Web Hints and Problems Alerts. How to use web hints and what to do with them. Web Hints automatically search online for records that match your people.  Problem Alerts warn you of errors and inconsistencies in you data.
 * April 10 - Dropbox as your files backup. Be able to access your files without your thumb drive or external drive or other means to save to
 * April 17 thru May 1- Researching Your Ancestors. This series will cover about three weeks.  We will take one single fact and research as many generations as possible.  We all have some ancestors for whom we have very little information.  Perhaps we have a death or marriage date and nothing else.  Using multiple examples to show how even the slightest information can lead to new clues and new resources for your research.

Center Resources

Collections
Patrons may order any of the films and fiche available through the FamilySearch Catalog through your home computer. They will be shipped to this Family History Center to be viewed.
 * We have over 990 microfilms on indefinite loan and thousands of microfiche. These are categorized in a card catalog at the Center by subject, author, locality, and title. 
 * Books include research books, maps, some Polk directories for Port Angeles, WA and surrounding towns.

Databases and Software

 * FHC Portal - This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free accessto the following premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
 * 19th Century British Library Newspaper Digital Archive
 * Access Newspaper Archive
 * Alexander Street Press - The Amerian Civil War which includes a Research Database, Letters and Diaries, Images, Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera, Social and Cultural History, Women and Social Movements in the United States
 * Ancestry.com - Institution Version
 * ArkivDigital Online - Launch from the "ArkivDigital Online Start Menu icon on the home screen of each computer
 * Create your "Who Do Think You Are?" story for free
 * Findmypast.com - Institution Version
 * Fold3.com
 * Historic Map Works - Library Edition
 * LegacyStories
 * MyHeritage - Library Edition
 * Paper Trail
 * ProQuest Obituary Listings
 * Puzzilla.org - Premium Services (Descendant Viewer)
 * World Vital Records
 * Genealogy database software: Legacy, Personal Ancestral File (PAF), RootsMagic
 * Word processing software: Open Office


 * Hardware and Equipment
 * 6 patron computer stations with high-speed internet access
 * 3 printers including a Multi Function Printer/Copier/Scanner.
 * Canon 300 microfiche/microfilm digitizer with attached flatbed scanner. May be used to transfer and save images from films, fiche, or scanner to a flash drive or a  CD.   Images may also be printed.
 * 3 microfilm readers (use with 35 mm and 16mm films)
 * 1 microfiche reader

Resources in the Local Area
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 * Clallam County Genealogical Society (CCGS)
 * Clallam County Historical Society
 * Museum and Arts Center (Sequim) - http://www.macsequim.org
 * North Olympic Library System (NOLS) - Library locations are in Sequim, Port Angeles, Forks and Neah Bay. See NOLS web page for hours, branch library addresses, phone numbers and subscribed genealogical sites.

Links
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 * City of Port Angeles, Washington
 * Clallam County, Washington
 * Fiske Library in Seattle
 * Heritage Quest Research Library - Sumner, WA
 * Jefferson County Genealogical Library Research Center
 * Washington State Government
 * Washington State Digital Archives
 * Washington State Genealogical Society

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