The Kootenai County Genealogical Society welcomes you! Our society is dedicated to aiding individuals in their genealogical pursuits including fostering education and interest in genealogy, gathering and preserving genealogical and historical data, and aiding members in their genealogical or historical research and in compiling their family histories.
Our meetings are at 1:00 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month (February – June and September – November) at:
Hayden Library
8385 N. Government Way
Hayden, Idaho 83835
Web address: www.kcgs.org
Email address: kcgsid@gmail.com
Social media: Facebook
Our monthly meetings are on video and posted on Facebook.
Our special genealogical collection is located in the Hayden Public Library. Hours of operation: Monday – Thursday, 10 am to 7 pm
Friday – Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm
Membership dues are $15 annually, $20 per couple. Membership year is January to December.
We have a research specialist to help the public, starting at $15. We have one computer dedicated to genealogy use, with access to ancestry.com as well as other sites, and we have one microfilm machine. We recently acquired our own book scanner, available during our volunteer Wednesdays.
Volunteers are available Wednesdays from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Hayden Library to assist members and visitors with genealogical research. We now have a scanner that utilizes flattening curved book page technology allowing it to replicate the individual flat pages of a curved book. The scanner is only available for use with a KCGS volunteer on Wednesday afternoons. We also have classes from time to time. Examples are: Introduction to Genealogy in three consecutive sessions and Introduction to Google Earth Pro, in two consecutive sessions.
Some highlights of our collection include:
Kootenai County births, deaths, marriages
North Idaho funeral home records
Polk Directories for Coeur d’Alene, ID and Spokane, WA
Yearbooks of the local high schools, North Idaho College and some University of Idaho yearbooks
The Mayflower series (“silver books”)
The Filby Immigration Books
The Domesday English Census
Shelves of family histories already published and donated
Check us out!