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The Arthur Fiske Genealogical Library aka “The Fiske”

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By Linda Blais I first learned about the Fiske Genealogical Library in June of 2017 when doing research for a biography that I writing about the founder of the first Sunday school west of the Mississippi. WorldCat has been one of my favorite places to go to find books that cover my research topic and to see if they are in a local library. While searching for books dealing with Missouri, I discovered that the only library locally that had the book I needed was the Arthur Fiske Genealogical Library in Seattle. Since this was a new library to me, checking out this repository became a fun task. Of course, I needed to know where it was. Two immediate places to find more information came to mind: Google Maps and the Internet. Yeah! Fiske had a website: https://fiskelibrary.org . Their "Library Information" page gave me the address and information that the Library was housed in Washington Pioneer Hall. Google Maps showed me that the building was right on Lake Washington. Ho...