Hey! Maybe you should take another look! Yaquina Bay is still there! The tiny town of New Port has grown since then and officially swollowed up the town of Yaquina. There is a likely hood that they are under the town of New Port as what was your town is now considered a sunburb or part of the other and so technickly non-existant. You might wish to check with the local Genealogy Society as well as the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon for possible records. August The only person that is guarenteed to fail is the one that never gets started. Remember: Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes thr job he starts. ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [OREGON] Town or County Name - Help In a message dated 2/11/2005 7:08:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> writes: > I am looking at a 1917 draft card registration. The person was born 1888 > in Oregon. Place of birth reads: Yauquina or Youquina or maybe Yanquina. > After searching around the Oregon Web site and place location sites, I > just don't find anything similar. I am sure the first letter is Y and I > am sure of the "quina" part. Does this place name mean anything to > anyone familiar with Oregon? > There is a place called Yaquina about 4 miles east of Newport. As I recall it was the end to the railroad at one time. It is right on the Yaquina River. I grew up not far from there. ==== OREGON Mailing List ==== To see the website for Oregon http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/<http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/> -=* To see what this list is doing *=- http://www.wvi.com/~wb/Oregon.html<http://www.wvi.com/~wb/Oregon.html> For ALL list business Admin, leave, or the archives. http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OR/misc.html<http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OR/misc.html> ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx>