When planning research in a new place, many of us have consulted the FamilySearch Research Wiki, and have collected books which cover states or regions where we find our ancestors and their friends, associates and neighbors.  On this blog   we've discussed creating a checklist  to ensure that we don't overlook useful resources to answer our research questions. Reusable locality research guide is a map to success Recently, advice to create our own locality research guides seem to be popping up everywhere, which takes the checklist concept to a whole new level. The recent   National Genealogical Society Magazine , had "Creating and Using Locality Guides as Genealogy Tools" by Jan Joyce. The article itself is available to NGS Members or from the magazine itself, but fortunately her case study and examples are available  here  for everyone. Holmes County, Indiana is shown but the principles are the same for every locality.  Challenge Accepted! Counties surrounding Decatur

By Cheri Sayer The Highline Historical Society has a well-established presence in South King County, and soon it will have a new home and it’s very own Museum!  Founded as the Burien Heritage Society in 1994, it soon merged with the Friends of the Highline School District and became the Highline Historical Society.  They have been an active society, with a small exhibit space at the SeaTac City Hall for quite a few years.  The Highline community has been the largest area in the State of Washington without a local history museum, so this effort has been a long-time goal of the Society.             The community of Highline is not a governmental entity, but a school district, known locally as “401” or the Highline School District.  The Society defines Highline as being bounded on the north by Seattle city limits, on the west by Puget Sound, and on the south at 252nd Street, just at Salt Water State Park.  Hwy 5 forms most of the eastern boundary.  It covers White Center, Burien, No