Forwarded for bookmarking for future Oregon researching and for general historical interest. Birchell Coslow List Admr > ** Original Subject: FW: New genealogy and Oregon lookup/research site > ** Original Sender: Dean Armstrong <[email protected]> > ** Original Date: 2 Mar 2002 04:17:11 -0000 > ** Original Message follows... >Anderson County List Administrator > > ***** Please take some time and look over the following information and post > this information if you feel it may be of help or interest to any of your > members. Thank you. ***** > > > http://www.historicaloregon.org/ This is a new site that has been > started by a group called Historical Oregon Information Services. It is a > non-profit group to help individuals and groups access information about > Oregon and it's history. Our site includes free services such as > "look-ups" on Oregon, newsletter and a guest book. We also have books at low > prices covering Oregon cemeteries, Oregon towns and World War II. At > Historical Oregon Information Services we hope that this may be of some > use to members of your group. > Our "Look-Ups" on Oregon page covers towns, rail stops, ferries, stage > stops, hard rock mines and schools as well as other types of places in the > state of Oregon. In the future we will have cemeteries also listed. In most > cases we have included any of the above listed items that pertain to the > location name. This, however, is an ongoing project and updating our files > is being done constantly. Under the name of the location, in most cases, we > have the county in which it is located, Post office, Rail Road, location and > any pertinent information regarding the location name. > Our newsletter is sent out bi-weekly and has information pertaining to > Oregon and its history. In the newsletter we cover such things as name > changes, multiple places with the same name, postal changes, new links, > information about a place and other pertinent information about groups and > their activities. > We have link pages on genealogy and Oregon history. These links are > listed in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. There are pages for > genealogy and Oregon history with more headings to come in the future. > At Historical Oregon Information Services we would also like to include > any information regarding web pages, meetings and e-mail services pertaining > to your group. We would be happy to include any of this information in our > newsletter and or link pages for anyone that is interested. > Thank you for your valuable time. We hope that this site can be of some > benefit to you and or your group members in the event that any questions > about Oregon arise. We hope to hear from you or anyone in your group, if you > have any need for information on Oregon, in the future. Thanks again. > > > Dean Armstrong > Historical Oregon Information Services > http://www.historicaloregon.org/ > [email protected] > > > > >** --------- End Original Message ----------- ** >