Welcome to Thurston 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. This website is available for adoption! We're looking for folks who share our dedication to keeping Genealogy free and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [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! County Information Thurston County was created out of Lewis County by the government of Oregon Territory on January 12, 1852. At that time, it covered all of the Puget Sound region and the Olympic Peninsula. On December 22 of the same year, Pierce, King, Island, and Jefferson Counties were split off from Thurston County. The county was named after Samuel R. Thurston, the Oregon Territory's first delegate to Congress. Towns, Cities and Census-Designated Places * Bucoda * Grand Mound * Lacey * Nisqually Indian Community * North Yelm * Olympia * Rainier * Rochester * Tanglewilde-Thompson Place * Tenino * Tumwater * Yelm Other Communities * Boston Harbor * Driftwood * East Olympia * Five Corners * Gate * Griffin * Indian Summer * Kellys Corner * Lake Lawrence * Littlerock * Maytown * Mushroom Corner * Offutt Lake * Saint Clair * Schneiders Prairie * South Bay * South Sound * Steamboat Island * Union Mills * Vail Ghost Towns * Tono 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: Apr 2013: PRINCE, HOUSE obits Mar 2013: MILLER, HOLLCRAFT, ADAMS obits; ANDERSON, BETTMAN, PRATHER, MITCHELL, OTT, COOK, KING, LEMON, HARRIS, YANTIS bios Feb 2013: BALL obit; 1883 pensioners Previous Updates SEARCH OUR SITES Don't Miss Another Update! Join our Genealogy Trails Pacific States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. Our Pacific Mailing List covers the states of California | Oregon | Washington | Alaska | Hawaii Adjacent Counties * Pierce County - northeast * Lewis County - south * Grays Harbor County - west * Mason 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.