Welcome to Grays Harbor County Washington Genealogy and History   Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This website is part of the Genealogy Trails family.   Our Group's 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. This site is available for adoption! Learn more about joining our group as host of this site (Knowledge of how to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) Please consider sharing your research information so that we can continue to build websites that will remain a helpful resource for the researchers of Washington. If you have any comments, questions or data contributions, Contact Us WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU.  All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back. Grays Harbor County was formed out of Thurston County on April 14, 1854 and was originally named Chehalis County. It was renamed in 1915, after a large bay near its southwestern corner. On May 7, 1792, Boston fur trader Robert Gray crossed the bar into the bay he called Bullfinch Harbor, but which later cartographers would label Chehalis Bay, and then Grays Harbor. The county seat is at Montesano, and its largest city is Aberdeen. Cities, Towns and CDP's Census-recognized communities Aberdeen * Aberdeen Gardens * Brady * Central Park * Chehalis Village * Cohassett Beach * Copalis Beach * Cosmopolis * Elma * Grayland * Hoquiam * Humptulips * Junction City * Malone-Porter * Markham * McCleary * Moclips * Montesano * Neilton * Oakville Ocean City * Ocean Shores * Oyehut-Hogans Corner * Satsop * Taholah * Westport Our Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar 2013: 1883 Pensioners on the Roll; Marriage Licenses granted in July 1927 Feb 2013: Crime news re CAMPBELL and KIRKLAND; Obits for BREWER, BRYAN, COOPER, DELK, DIVILBISS, GROVER, JAMESON, PHILLPS, STORY, TAYLOR, THORP, WILLIAMS; Marriage Announcements for HALL-STEWART, KESTERSON-MCDOWELL, TING-DESHONTZ, WITTER-OLSON Dec 2012: RATHBUN-MOFFAT marriage announcement Nov 2012: deaths of DAMITO children 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 Surrounding Counties: Jefferson County, Washington - north Mason County, Washington - northeast Thurston County, Washington - southeast Lewis County, Washington - southeast Pacific County, Washington - south Visit our Washington State Site Remember to bookmark us and keep checking back for new additions to the sites.     Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.