Welcome to Franklin County Washington Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. WANT TO HELP? This website is available for adoption! If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please SEND IT TO US and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! Franklin County Information Franklin County was formed out of Whitman County on November 28, 1883 It was named after Benjamin Franklin. The county seat is at Pasco, which is also the county's largest city. On October 16, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped in the Pasco area, at a site now commemorated by Sacagawea State Park. In the 1880s, the Northern Pacific Railway was built near the Columbia River, bringing many settlers to the area. Pasco was officially incorporated on September 3, 1891. It was named by Virgil Bogue, a construction engineer for the Northern Pacific Railway after Cerro de Pasco, a city in the Peruvian Andes, where he had helped build a railroad. In its early years, it was a small railroad town, but the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 brought irrigation and agriculture to the area. (source: wikipedia) Census- Designated Communities Basin City * Connell * Kahlotus * Mesa * Pasco * West Pasco Our Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: March 2013: obits for McCARTY and SMITH; Birth announcement for BURGRAFF; bio for KAHLOW Feb 2013: Birth records for O'KEEFE Previous Updates SEARCH OUR SITES We also have mailing lists set up so that you can read about updates, discuss your families and connect with other researchers who are looking in the same area as you. Don't Miss Another Update! Join our Mailing Lists to be notified of website updates Our Pacific Mailing List covers California | Oregon | Washington | Alaska | Hawaii Adjacent Counties Adams County - north Whitman County - east Walla Walla County - southeast Columbia County - southeast Benton County - southwest Grant County - northwest VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit WASHINGTON STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.