In a message dated 2/11/2005 7:08:10 AM Pacific Standard Time, [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.