Below are examples of special research projects conducted by the museum at the request of an individual or an organization. Do you have some research you would like help with? Send email to info@gfhistory.org with your request.

Museum Creates Historical Property Maps

In early 2009, ESRI provided a grant to the Museum for ArcGIS 9.0 (a mapping software product), based on our intent to create a map that could be shared among multiple organizations. With the cooperation of several organizations with large scanners, the Museum digitized and cleaned up township maps, showing about 36 square miles.
With lots of student intern manpower, the all-volunteer team used the geo-referencing capabilities of ArcMap to accurately overlay multiple vintages of hand-drawn hardcopy maps, using modern township, section, and 1/16 section corners as the reference points. Read more...

New Zealand Visitor Learns Family History

A gentleman wandered in one afternoon and said, “My name is Parr and I believe I may have had some relatives in this area."
"I just flew in this morning from New Zealand, and I’m on my way to visit my cousin (also named Parr) in British Columbia. The kind people in Everett [a large town about 20 miles from Granite Falls] did have evidence of one of the matriarchs in our family dying there, but they said she was buried in Granite Falls."
"I decided to drive up here and see what I could find, although my cousin said he’d been here and I wouldn’t find much in a small logging town.” Read more...