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Welcome to Island
County Washington Genealogy Research
Island County Times Office 1903
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Island County Washington
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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for Island
County Data
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Brief
History:
Island County is a county
located in the U.S. state of
Washington. Its county seat is
Coupeville, while its largest
city is Oak Harbor. The county's
name reflects the fact that it is composed
entirely of islands. It contains two large
islands, Whidbey and Camano, and
seven smaller islands (Baby, Ben Ure,
Deception, Kalamut, Minor, Smith, and
Strawberry). Island County was
created out of Thurston County on December
22, 1852, by the legislature of
Oregon Territory, and is the
eighth-oldest county in Washington. It
originally encompassed what are now
Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, and San
Juan Counties.
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