Members, your Board would like to inform you of the death of Frank McLean. Frank was president of Washington State Genealogical Society from 1994 to 1996. He joined WSGS in 1986 and has been a contributing member ever since. Currently, he held the position of Treasurer since 2022. Frank was instrumental in Pioneer Project along with others with the vision to trace all pioneers and indigenous individuals in Washington at statehood 11 November, 1889. He spent countless hours reviewing the genealogies submitted verifying the source information was correct helping to add about 44,000 names to our data base of pioneers. He also sent out Pioneer Certificates upon request. Frank later assumed the same position for Pioneer Pursuit (past president Virginia Majewski’s brain child project) and, again, reviewed over 4,000 names of those at statehood making sure the sources were correct.

Frank was president of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia and served as a Board member with them. He was heavily involved with his local society Yakima Valley Genealogical Society serving as president, membership, publicity and helped with bulletin printing; head of the semi-annual yard sale and, from 2004, on has served as Building & Maintenance Supervisor of this library and as “Tech” guy, he helped scan all our thousands of obituaries from paper and index cards.

Frank (3 January 1937-7 June, 2026) is survived by his wife Delma Roloff McLean.