Thursday, January 24, 2008

City of Bellingham; Research Your Home's Past

Via the City of Bellingham's wonderful (new edition) website; the Whatcom museum of History & Art has put out a four page pdf on how to research the history of your historic home. It shows you where to look to get the pertinent information and it mentions some of the publications that may be handy to your Bellingham specific search ex. R. L. Polk Bellingham City Directories, which date back to the late 1890s and, list the names and occupations of Bellingham residents.
Whatcom Museum of History & Art Tracing the Past Owners of Your Home PDF:

http://www.cob.org/documents/planning/cd/historic/house-hist-research.pdf

For the Whatcom Museum of History & Art Photo Archive Info:

http://www.whatcommuseum.org/pages/archives/archives.htm

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