Central Washington University Library: The library at CWU has extensive resources on local history, easily accessible via CATTRAX, an online catalog system allowing searches by subject, keyword, and author. The library closes on holidays, including some student breaks. Normal hours are:

Mon-Thurs 7:30 AM - Midnight Friday 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Saturday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sunday 1:00 PM - midnight

For information, call 509-963-1777 or visit the library’s web page at http://www.library.cwu.edu/.

Maintained by the Cle Elum Historical Society, the Telephone Museum features displays of old telephones, switchboards and other telecommunication equipment in a turn-of-the century setting at 221 E. First Street. Hours are noon to 4:00, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. The Historical Society also serves as custodian for the Carpenter House, a restored late nineteenth century mansion. For information, leave a message at

(509) 674-5702 or visit the society’s web page at http://www.ohwy.com/wa/c/cleelhtm.htm

Located at 209 N. Ruby in downtown Ellensburg, the Public Library maintains an excellent local history room, which features several hundred oral interviews with local pioneers. The local history room also houses archival files on Kittitas County settlers, early-day businesses, post-fire buildings, as well as a comprehensive collection of the local newspapers in print and on microfilm. There also are extensive photograph collections and family files. Hours: M-F, 10:00-8:30; Sat, 10:00-5:00, Sun., 1:00-5:00. Telephone: 509-962-7250.

Kittitas County Genealogical Society:

This society maintains census and other documentation relevent to local history and genealogy. Information about its holdings and a booklists of printed materials may be obtained at a nominal cost. Non-members are asked to make a donation to the society ogf at least $1 to access the records. The Society also offers a Kittitas County Pioneer Certificate Program which authenticates ancestors of the early settlement period, the territorial interlude, and the statehood period from 1889 to 1910. Applications may be obtained from President Sally Evans or Librarians Virginia Hanks and Marge Boles. The Society is located in the Reed Building in downtown Ellensburg—413 N. Main, Suite D. Telephone: 509-925-5951; mailto:geneal@televar.com.

Kittitas County Museum:

The Kittitas County Museum is housed in the historic Cadwell Building in downtown Ellensburg. Permanent exhibits include a sizable Native American basket collection, an impressive accumulation of turn-of-the-century dolls, and extensive local rock and mineral samples. Open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11:00 to 3:00 during the winter months. Summer hours are 10:00 to 4:00. Telephone: 509-925-3778.

The Family History Center is located at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1700 Brickroad in Ellensburg. Research may be done by computer on the Family Search Program which encompasses the following divisions:

Ancestral File--patron-submitted genealogies (pedigrees and family group sheets)

International Genealogical Index--individual information, marriage information, parent-child information.

Military Index--those who died in Korean and Vietnam Wars

Family History Library Catalogue--contains listings of all books and films in the Family History Library in Salt Lake. (Films from this catalogue may be ordered from Salt Lake and viewed in the local Family History Center.

Scottish Records (by county)--On the GRS system, Broderbund and treemaker (also on computer) is a collection of Cds containing indexes to censuses pre-1700 to 1850, and selected 1860 and limited 1870 and 1880 indexes. Also includes early marriage records to 1850 for many states, and some land records.

Microfiche--Thousands of fiche of family histories, county records, histories, land records, cemetery records, obituaries, periodicals, books, etal.

Persi--Periodical source index for regional genealogical publications. Xeroxed copies can be ordered.

Roots--A research coordination service from Everton Publishers.

Additionally there is a collection of "help" books related to finding your ancestors. Hours: Tuesday and Wednesday 10 A.M. to 8PM, Thursday 10 A. M. to 1:30 P.M. Telephone: 509-925-5192

Roslyn Museum:

The Roslyn Museum houses vintage photographs and mining equipment relating to the height of the coal mining era, between 1880 and 1910. The Museum is open most weekends. Other points of interest in Roslyn include the Coal Miner’s Memorial, constructed by the Roslyn-Ronald Heritage Club in 1966, and 25 separate ethnic and fraternal cemeteries located on the hillside above the town

Washington State Archives Central Regional Branch:

The Bledsoe-Washington Archives Building contains over 15,000 cubic feet of documents and artifacts pertaining to the history of Kittitas, Benton, Yakima, Klickitat, Okanogan, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, and Franklin counties. The majority of materials relate to county and municipal governments, school districts, Central Washington State University and genealogical sources. Finders’ guides are available. The Bledsoe-Washington Archives Building is located at 14^th and D Street; it is open to the public from 8:30 until 4:30, Mondays through Fridays. Telephone: 509-963-2136; FAX: 509-963-1753. For further information, visit the website at http://www.cwu.edu/~archives.

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Digital Collection:

We can learn from the images and writings of the time...This site provides an extensive digital collection of original photographs and documents about the Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian cultures, complemented by essays written by anthropologists, historians, and teachers about both particular tribes and cross-cultural topics. These cultures have occupied, and in some cases still live in parts of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Maps are available that show traditional territories or reservation boundaries.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/index.html