> Dear Readers > I have been searching for my La Grande, Union Co., OR BROWERs, who went there via the Oregon Trail and settled about 1882. A widow with 13 grown BROWER children > settled there. These Brower descendants are throughout > Oregon and Washington by now. > I just found some of them on a great database: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~utgenweb/ > > When you get there, click on the Western States Marriages. > You can search by bride or groom, or last name only. I found some of my own ancestors, that I have been looking eveywhere for, and found many more Brower names when I searched by BROWER only. I then singled out the ones in Union Co., OR as they are the ones that I know to be my relatives, and I can start to work on those names. > > Lillian Kathleen Martin > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

That's a neat site. However, I could not get any of my Oregon relatives to show up on that. They were all Idaho or Utah people. I don't think it contains (all) Oregon people. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lilly" <malik@scs-net.org> To: <OREGON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:01 AM Subject: [OREGON] Western States Marriages > > Dear Readers > > I have been searching for my La Grande, Union Co., OR BROWERs, who went > there via the Oregon Trail and settled about 1882. A widow with 13 grown > BROWER children > > settled there. These Brower descendants are throughout > > Oregon and Washington by now. > > I just found some of them on a great database: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~utgenweb/ > > > > When you get there, click on the Western States Marriages. > > You can search by bride or groom, or last name only. I found some of my > own ancestors, that I have been looking eveywhere for, and found many more > Brower names when I searched by BROWER only. I then singled out the ones in > Union Co., OR as they are the ones that I know to be my relatives, and I can > start to work on those names. > > > > Lillian Kathleen Martin > > > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== OREGON Mailing List ==== > Welcome to the OREGON LIST > To Search the OREGON-L or leave the lists use this link to the Oregon-L > web site http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OR/misc.html > Oregon Archives http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >