Project: Latah County, Idaho

• Find people from Latah County!!!!
• Stand up a County Free Space Page - in progress but contributions are appreciated at Latah County Information.

Tasks that I think need to be done, but require expertise that I do not have: Profiles for the:

• Nimiipuu people of the Nez Perce Nation -- https://nezperce.org/
• Schitsu'umsh (or “Those who were found here”) of the Coeur d'Alene tribe -- https://www.cdatribe-nsn.gov/

• Family members that have not been added
• Adding the Category Classification to existing profiles of Latah County Residents
• Profiles for People identified in Land Records
  • The first 2000 Latah County Land Records from the BLM can be found here [[3]] This list includes homestead act patents (Subproject of Project:Homesteaders [[4]]), but also Cash Purchase through the Land Act of 1820 and a few others.
  • Many people in Latah County also acquired land through the Timber and Stone Act of 1878. A good source for that information are newspapers. Lewiston, Idaho is in the parent county of Nez Perce but many Latah County residents used that Land office notices were published in the Lewiston Teller and its predecessors and successors. Available on Chronicling America at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091109/
  • There are land ownership maps available online at several places for different years:

• Latah County 1914.
• Latah County 1894.
• Latah County 2018.

• If you live in or near Latah County, the University has a special collection that includes assessor records from 1914-1959. This collection is not online, but information about it can be found at https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Manuscripts/mg382.htm

• Postmasters/Postmistresses - Latah County has had at least 50 different post offices, most of which were in communities that no longer exist. One source to find that information is through an annual register published by the Civil Service Commission. Hint to to help find the registers: Available on both Archive.org and Google Books. I find archive.org a little more user friendly. Search for: Official Register of the United States, United States Civil Service Commission. Visually inspect to make sure the full title is something like Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval… Later versions may say Register of Officers and Employees… Unfortunately, the full title does not seem to be in the metadata at either of those locations. If there are two volumes for a year, Volume 2 is most likely the correct one. Postmasters can be found in listings alphabetical by State/Territory, for each state/territory there will be a list containing Post Office Name, County, Postmaster, Salary. Some volumes contain data for multiple years. These profiles also can be classified with the category US_Postmasters or US_Postmistresses. [[[:Category:US_Postmasters]]|/ [[5]]]