Here's some web sites! Land Donation Claims http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ California Land Patents http://www.ca.blm.gov/landpatents/ Alabama Land Records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/landrecords Michigan Land Records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/landrecords Minnesota Land Records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/landrecords Ohio Land records http://userdb.rootsweb.com/landrecords I hope these help someone. Corina _______________________________________________________ Say Bye to Slow Internet! http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html

Can some one tell me what the URL is for this, Thanks. Bonnie [email protected] Is Ohio ion the BLM site?

Jim...Just to inform everyone, Kentucky and the other 12 original states, as well as Iowa are not on the BLM site. If you have a land grant for any of those states for the Rev War Service, it will not be listed at BLM. Lois in CA

> > My sisters and I just had such a wonderful 2-day jaunt to Oregon in quest of > our NOBLE and MARKS heritage, I'd love to share it. I know I have been in > touch with many of you in search of my family, so some of this information > is a repeat. I hope I don't bore you too badly. > > We found the donation land claim of our great-great-grandparents, William > Sherman Noble and Sarah Noble, who crossed the Oregon Trail from Ohio (via > Iowa) in 1850. It is such a gorgeous piece of property in the Willamette > Valley -- mostly flat, rich farmland with gentle, rolling hills around, and > the Cascade Mountains majestically rising to the east. The Santiam River > runs nearby, and the Old Santiam Wagon Road also passes very near. "Noble > Slough" runs through the property. They must have felt they'd arrived in > heaven when they got there! We found the Liberty/Nye cemetery where William > was buried, though not his grave. Lots of wonderful old graves of Oregon > Trail pioneers, however, which were fascinating. > > We also found the DLC of our great-great-grandparents Bluford and Martha > Marks, who crossed the trail from Missouri in 1853 with a large group of > Marks relatives. Their claim is across the Santiam River from the Nobles' > claim, on a high ridge (Marks Ridge) overlooking the valley and the city of > Sweet Home. What a breath-taking view! > > We visited the Lebanon Library, and found some documentation of our > ancestors. Many, many thanks to Jane Hutchings for her help! > > The most moving part of the trip was at the grave of our great-grandmother, > Charity Noble Marks, wife of James P. Marks and mother of our grandfather, > George Alfred Marks. Charity was buried at the top of the Santiam Pass with > her infant child, beside the Old Santiam Wagon Road, where they died in > 1875. It is in the Willamette National Forest, near Fish Lake campground. > We walked a length of the old road to get to the grave, with wagon ruts to > remind us of its history and towering evergreens making the forest almost > dark. I pondered how Charity must have felt, only 19 years old, going into > labor in such a beautiful, lonely place, with snow falling around her and > closing her in. At the grave we met a group of hikers on a 4-day "Living > History" trek, and the teenage daughter of one of the rangers presented a > monologue, in costume, of the events of that sad day. The whole group > appeared touched by Charity's story. Several rangers were there, and > expressed gratefulness that we had come. They seemed to have some emotional > attachment to Charity and her baby, and may have felt some comfort to think > that after 125 years of being tended faithfully by strangers, her > descendants had found her and come to visit, and even mourn. > > My two sisters and two cousins joined me on the trip, and one cousin brought > an old Bible that I had never seen, with family names inscribed. A note in > it said it had come over the Oregon Trail to Oregon. Pages were missing, so > we weren't sure which side of the family it came from, but it had Noble and > Marks names and dates written in it. What a treasure! > > A team of high school students was at the grave, working on a short PBS > program called "Through Their Eyes," focusing on a young person's view of > Oregon history. They interviewed us, and may include Charity's story in > their film. > > Our next step will be to get to eastern Oregon (Crook County), where the > Noble and Marks families moved around 1870. I believe other descendants of > William and Sarah Noble are still there. I'd love to find relatives with > some photos! > > It amazes me that in March we knew no more than my grandfather's name and > that he was born in the Willamette Valley, and now we know so much about our > ancestors! It makes history to so personal. We owe a debt of gratitude to > many on these lists who helped us find our roots. Thank-you! > > I know this may not be interesting to everyone, but I'm just so excited > about what we're finding, it's fun to share it. Thanks for your patience. > > Marilyn Schwartz > Chelan, WA >

By this time we were beyond the outposts of civilization and I saw my first Indians. It was at the crossing of a stream. I cannot now recall the name of it, but it does not really matter. The Indians belonged to the Kaw tribe and there were a great many of them. Trees of some sort skirted the banks of the shallow stream and among them, scattered about, was fully a hundred teepees. Someone, resorting to an easy answer, told me that it was a camp meeting. As I think of it now, I know that it was probably a government pay day. Some of the Tribes were even then, receiving amenities, so they were peaceful. They accepted and spent, the government money, and grumbled only to themselves. I saw the Indians squatting in the grass around a raised platform. I took it to be a pulpit and argued to myself that after all, Indians could not be so very bad. How could they be, and be so very pious. I remember how deep and rich the grass was. I thought it a very pretty spot, but I did not enjoy being there. Father had been an Indian fighter and had served through the Black Hawk War. I had listened to his vivid, thrilling stories of Indian treachery, massacre, and warfare, while I sat as closely to him as I could and shivered at the dark shadows in the room. Here were Indians all around us, they might be pious and peaceful and all that, but I was not entirely satisfied or pleased about it. I remember seeing a couple of young squaws, who were busily occupied with fine tooth combs. At each stroke through their long black hair they examined the combs intently and dipped them from time to time in a kettle of boiling water. I was curious about it and asked Mother what it meant. But after we lived on the mission farm with Indians all about us, I learned a great deal about the efficacy of a fine toothed comb. I also learned that fish berries steeped in vinegar were even better than the comb when one's hair was as long and heavy as mine was. The Indian women and children did not appear so very different from anyone else. In fact, their colored calico dresses looked rather good, I thought, and in comparison, my little red and black checked home spun dress seemed quite drab and commonplace. That same red and black checked dress, by the time we had reached our journey's end, had given place to one made from a wagon sheet. The Indians, too, as we traveled on, wore less, very much less, even less than that. But where ever we found them, the Indians wore a great many beads, loops and loops of them, and bear's claws, and elk teeth. Often they wore very little else. Walt Davies Monmouth, OR

>From todays issue of "Tips and Updates" from Family Tree Magazine http://www.familytreemagazine.com Monday, Aug. 21, 2000 _____________________________ WORTHWHILE WEB SITES In case you haven't visited FamilyTreeMagazine.com lately, here's a round-up of the most recent Sites of the Day, which are family history-related Web sites we think are worth checking out: The National Bio-Bin http://www.genexchange.org/biobin.cfm The Carpathian Connection http://www.tccweb.org Family Reunion Calendar http://resources.rootsweb.com/~calendar/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi?calname=FAMILY_ REUNIONS AncestorNews: Resource Center for Beginning Internet Genealogy http://www.ancestornews.com Local Ireland Genealogy http://www.local.ie/genealogy/ Nordic Notes http://www.nordicnotes.com Poland's Central Archives of Historical Records http://members.xoom.com/agadadm/ JewishGen http://www.jewishgen.org CimGenWeb Database http://cimgenweb.francegenweb.org/recherche.html Allen County Public Library http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/index.html Using Maps in Genealogy http://mapping.usgs.gov/mac/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs14099.html It's All Relative Genealogy http://www.iarelative.com/ American Civil War Homepage http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war Orphan Train Collection http://pda.republic.net/othsa/ To subscribe to Family Tree Magazine's newsletter, send an e-mail to [email protected] with SUBSCRIBE NEWSLETTER in the body of the message, or sign up online at http://www.familytreemagazine.com/newsletter.asp Joanne Abby - National Coordinator GenExchange - http://www.genexchange.org USGenExchange - http://www.genexchange.org/us.cfm _____________________________________________ Help keep genealogy free, volunteer at the GenExchange!

Curt & Marilyn Rohrer wrote: > My g-g-grandfather, Samuel Paul FRANTZ brought his family from Iowa, via the Plains over the Oregon Trail to Benton County, Oregon in the 1860's. Does anyone, by chance, have information about this group of pioneers: who else was in the party, significant events that occurred during the crossing, etc.? Would appreciate any information. Please respond to my e-mail address: [email protected] Please also respond to the list -- others (such as I<G>) are looking for 1860s wagon train information might find a new clue. My particular interest is in James SMITH and his wife Rebecca "Jane" MATHEW Smith, who traveled from their home in Iowa in 1864. Thanks, Beth Perry Johnston Newport, Oregon

My g-g-grandfather, Samuel Paul FRANTZ brought his family from Iowa, via the Plains over the Oregon Trail to Benton County, Oregon in the 1860's. Does anyone, by chance, have information about this group of pioneers: who else was in the party, significant events that occurred during the crossing, etc.? Would appreciate any information. Please respond to my e-mail address: [email protected]

Good morning list......Thought I would add to this discussion. The records that I have received both from the Oregon State Archives and the BLM site have been very good. Readable etc. So my experience has been a positive one. Jacqueline [email protected]

To the list I found my ancestor, ordered and received copies of his land claim (I think), could be anyone's. I'm told that's the best they could do. Two of the copies are black and one is partly black, partly white. Totally useless as far as I am concerned. They are not readable. While it is a small amount of money I feel the quality is just not right. I have received land patent copies before from another state and found them very clear and well worth the very small charge. Sylvia Shannon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Tompkins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:20 PM Subject: Re: Find land records > >You can find the PROPERTY DESCRIPTION on this website, very fun!! > >http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ > > > >Donation Land Claims (DLC) > > > > Homestead Records > > You can go straight to the search engine at > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/search.asp > Sometimes you get a better result of you check title search. > Know that BLM is working at putting the post-1980 records on line and at > present you can only access pre-1908. > > When inquiring about land claims be sure to understand that there are > differences in claims and the claiming process depending upon the year > (which corresponds with the governmental status of Oregon at that time. > > 1843-1849 the Provisional Government recorded PLGs (Prov. Land Grants) for > 25 cents. The limit was 640 acres, men only could apply and descriptions > had to be in metes and bounds as no survey existed. > > 1852-1868 the US Land Office registered DLCs (Donation Land Claims). The > law, generally known as the Donation Land Act of 1850 (properly known as an > Act to Create the Office of Surveyor-General of Oregon) gave any free white > or half-white male in Oregon before December 1, 1851, 320 acres and an > additional 320 acres in his wife's name if married. The law was to expire > in 1853, but surveying did not begin until 1852 so it was extended to > anyone arriving before December 1, 1853, only at half the acreage. The GLO > was still processing DLCs in 1868 when the Homestead Act was extended to > Oregon. > > I hope to have a 50 page treatise on PLGs and DLCs published in the > Overland Journal soon. > > jim tompkins > >

As a volunteer researcher at the Oregon State Archives here in Salem I can tell you that the death certificates that can be researched and copied go through 1949, not 1943 as your earlier e-mail indicated. Each year we are able to access another year of death certficates, so sometime after the first of next year (2001) the 1950 death certificates will be available.

Hi Laura...Have you figured out yet how to find the location of the land given to these soldiers? I found one that is a possibility for my 5X g.grandfather, William Roach, but cannot figure out where the land was located. :)) Lois in CA

Searchers here is a story about the Ukraine records with some links. I'd like to here your links! Laura in Seattle DIGGING IN UKRAINE by Betsy de Parry [email protected] My father-in-law was born in a village south of L'viv in 1912. At the time, the area was under Hapsburg rule. His village was named Czartoria (now Kamiane) and L'viv was then Lemberg. We had been unsuccessful at finding anything. Last October we visited the city of L'viv and, with the help of our guide who spoke English, visited the L'viv Historical Archives. Unlike here in the U.S.A., not everyone off the street can go in to look at records, so we paid $80 to have someone there search through records for us. After several months, our guide got in touch with us and said many records had been found and he asked for another $50 to cover the costs of copying and mailing. We were happy to pay this. When the records arrived, we were very excited. Copies of documents went back to 1806 and our guide had made a pedigree chart from the information in the records. If you have ancestors from the L'viv Oblast, I would suggest writing to the Historical Archives because a wealth of information exists. The language barrier makes it difficult, and the economy is so poor in Ukraine that one must be willing to risk sending payment first -- which is easily accomplished through Western Union. EDITORS' NOTE: Also see ROOTSWEB'S GUIDE TO TRACING FAMILY TREES (includes tracing Jewish ancestors) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson25.htm (includes links for Polish, Russian, Czech, etc. research) http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson27.htm ROUTES TO ROOTS http://www.routestoroots.com/ JEWISH ROOTS IN UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA, by Miriam Weiner http://www.rtrfoundation.org/html/jacket_two.html

Search for Kentucky Land warrants here http://www.sos.state.ky.us/intranet/Revwscr.htm There were a lot of Smith names. I found one John KIRBY, hopefully it is from my line whose family came to Oregon. Warrant Veteran Assignee 2715.0 Gibson, Aaron Aselin, Thomas 4115.0 Gibson, George 2626.0 Gibson, Jacob Flowerree, Daniel 0724.0 Gibson, John 0218.0 Gibson, John 0219.0 Gibson, John 0220.0 Gibson, John 0221.0 Gibson, John 1841.2 Gibson, John, Jr. 0778.0 Gibson, Robert Warrant Veteran Assignee 0384.0 Porter, Calvert Daw, Philip 0374.0 Porter, Daniel 1032.0 Porter, Elisha 2895.0 Porter, Thomas 0670.0 Porter, William 2894.0 Porter, William 0448.0 Porter, William (deceased) Porter, Daniel (representative) 0058.0 Porterfield, Charles (deceased) Porterfield, Robert (heir-at-law) 0057.0 Porterfield, Robert If anyone finds links, let us know. Laura Also, Ancestry.com is free (census) for 14 days now during this slow season.

>You can find the PROPERTY DESCRIPTION on this website, very fun!! >http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ > >Donation Land Claims (DLC) > > Homestead Records You can go straight to the search engine at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/search.asp Sometimes you get a better result of you check title search. Know that BLM is working at putting the post-1980 records on line and at present you can only access pre-1908. When inquiring about land claims be sure to understand that there are differences in claims and the claiming process depending upon the year (which corresponds with the governmental status of Oregon at that time. 1843-1849 the Provisional Government recorded PLGs (Prov. Land Grants) for 25 cents. The limit was 640 acres, men only could apply and descriptions had to be in metes and bounds as no survey existed. 1852-1868 the US Land Office registered DLCs (Donation Land Claims). The law, generally known as the Donation Land Act of 1850 (properly known as an Act to Create the Office of Surveyor-General of Oregon) gave any free white or half-white male in Oregon before December 1, 1851, 320 acres and an additional 320 acres in his wife's name if married. The law was to expire in 1853, but surveying did not begin until 1852 so it was extended to anyone arriving before December 1, 1853, only at half the acreage. The GLO was still processing DLCs in 1868 when the Homestead Act was extended to Oregon. I hope to have a 50 page treatise on PLGs and DLCs published in the Overland Journal soon. jim tompkins

Searchers of ancestry and friends. Let me know if you have any breakthroughs here-- If you haven't tried finding land records yet, you are in for a treat!! The BLM site goes further than 1890 census, so you might get more information than you expect. Searchers of land records, this is from the Oregon Archives site. http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/land.html How to find land records. You can find the PROPERTY DESCRIPTION on this website, very fun!! http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ If you know the PROPERTY DESCRIPTION for land in Oregon, a visit to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) office in Portland may provide you with the necessary information to access the land entry files at the Textual Reference Branch-Land. http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/land.html#Published More searches http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/land.html Donation Land Claims (DLC) Under terms of an act of 1850, certain white settlers and Indians of mixed blood in Oregon Territory (which then included Washington), and certain settlers arriving there between 1 December 1850 and 1 December 1853, were entitled to land. The number of acres granted (varying between 160 to 640) depended upon the marital status of the settler and the date of settlement. Settlers were required to live on the land and cultivate it for four years. The Oregon donation files for each appropriate land office (Oregon City, Roseburg, and The Dalles) are filed in two numerical series. One relates to complete entries, the other to incomplete or cancelled entries. Documents in a DLC file for a completed entry include the notification of settlement, which describes the land either by legal description (range, township, section, and fraction of section) or by natural features (metes and bounds), sometimes accompanied by a plat; an affidavit of settlement, which includes date and place of birth and, if applicable, of marriage; proofs of cultivation; an oath that the land had been used for cultivation only; for naturalized persons, proof of citizenship (not filmed on National Archives film M815); and the donation certificate, which shows name of entryman, place of residence, description of land, date of patent, and volume and page number of the recorded patent in the National Archives. The following resources are available in the Oregon State Archives Reference Room: Oregon Donation Land Files, 1851-1903 (National Archives (NARA) microfilm M815) Oregon Donation Land Claim File Index (Reference Library publication) Oregon Donation Land Claim Abstracts (NARA microfilm M145) Washington Donation Land Claims, 1851-1903 (NARA microfilm M203) Homestead Records Under the Homestead Act of 1862 citizens and persons who had filed their intentions to become citizens were given 160 acres of land in the public domain if they fulfilled certain conditions. In general, an applicant had to build a home on the land, reside there for five years, and cultivate the land. The homestead entry papers filed by name of land office are dated 1863 through June 30, 1908. In general, there are two separately numbered series for each land office, one relating to complete and the other relating to incomplete homestead entries. A complete homestead entry file includes such documents as the homestead application; certificate of publication of intention to make a claim; homestead proof, consisting of testimonies of two witnesses and the testimony of the claimant; final certificate authorizing the claimant to obtain a patent; and when appropriate, a copy of naturalization proceedings or a copy of a Union veteran's discharge certificate. These records are available at: Textual Reference Branch-Land (NWDT1) National Archives Washington, DC 20408 telephone (202) 501-5395 Bureau of Land Management 1300 N.E. 44th St. PO Box 2965 Portland, Oregon 97208 telephone (503) 280-7024 When writing to the Textual Reference Branch-Land provide 1) the name of the land office, 2) the type of land transaction (cash sales, credit sale, homestead entry) and 3) the file number. The name of the entryman, state, and complete township/range description is also acceptable.

Oregon searchers Here are several search engines in the archives of Oregon. Lots of ways to search maps, adoption, vital records, and great history. http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/genealogy.htm Example: During the 1830s, the Lees' mission served as a magnet for other Americans who also settled in the Willamette Valley. In 1835, President Andrew Jackson sent William Slacum, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, to report on the situation in Oregon. Slacum arrived in Oregon in 1836. When he discovered that the Hudson's Bay Company held a monopoly on cattle in Oregon, he persuaded the American settlers to join together to buy cattle in California and bring them back to Oregon. In January 1837 the Willamette Cattle Company was formed for this purpose. Both Jason Lee and John McLoughlin were shareholders. That same year some 600 head of cattle were brought back to Oregon. The success of this venture gave American settlers a growing sense of independence from the Hudson's Bay Company. Americans continued to move into the Willamette Valley. Together with French-Canadians who had been employed by the Company, there were some 500 whites in the area by 1842. American settlers began to think about establishing a government. An initial attempt, caused by the need to probate Ewing Young's huge estate, failed in 1841. A second attempt to form a government succeeded in 1843. Oregonians voted in an open air meeting at Champoeg on July 5 to establish Oregon's provisional government. This government was supposed to function until the United States extended its jurisdiction over Oregon. At this time, slavery was prohibited. Unfortunately, this first government was ineffective and biased in favor of the Methodist mission. Americans who arrived as part of the Great Migration in 1843 were especially unhappy with the new government. In 1844, representatives of this new contingent came to power and began to form a new government modeled on the ones they had left in the Midwest. The following year, John McLoughlin, as representative of the Hudson's Bay Company, recognized the provisional government. Successive waves of immigrants arriving into the 1850s shared the same values and gave early Oregon a remarkably homogenous and cohesive population. An estimated 53,000 settlers came to Oregon between 1840 and 1860. Most of them made the journey over the 2,000 mile Oregon Trail, which stretched from Independence, Missouri to western Oregon. The trip took six to eight months, and many immigrants arrived with their resources exhausted. John McLoughlin supplied food, clothing, temporary shelter, and even jobs to immigrants at Fort Vancouver, despite Hudson's Bay Company orders to the contrary. McLoughin did so in part because he was convinced that it was inevitable that the area south of the Columbia would become American territory. By sending settlers there, he hoped to keep them away from the Company's activities north of the Columbia River. Unfortunately, McLoughlin's authoritarian personality often angered many newcomers and caused settlers to resent him. By 1846, the United States and Great Britain agreed to divide the Pacific Northwest at the 49th parallel- the present border with Canada. Hudson's Bay Company headquarters had already been moved to Fort Victoria, on Vancouver Island. John McLoughlin resigned his position with the Company and settled in Oregon City. Americans in the Willamette Valley wanted territorial status immediately, yet the debate over slavery in Congress delayed this step. When white settlers began to arrive, Indians inhabited all of present-day Oregon. Whites failed to understand very much about Indian culture. They considered the Indians to be nomads who drifted purposelessly form place to place. In reality, Oregon Indians moved from winter to summer villages and encampments to hunt, fish, and gather food. In turn, Indians did not understand white customs and traditions. As a result, Indian-white relations were marked by frequent skirmishes during the early period. In 1847, Cayuse Indians attacked the Whitman mission at Waiilaptu and killed fourteen people. The immediate cause of the attack was an epidemic of measles, brought by immigrants, which had devasted the local Indians. They believed that Marcus Whitman had introduced the disease to get Indian lands and horses. More fundamentally, however, the conflict between the two cultures caused great tensions between Indians and whites. To make matters worse, as whites came into Oregon, their demands for land increased. The Whitman Massacre and settlers' demands for protection finally caused Congress to move on this issue of territorial status, and Oregon became a United States territory on August 13, 1848. In 1850, Congress passed the Donation Land Act, which recognized most of the land claims filed under the provisional government. Single white males over the age of twenty-one could claim 320 acres. If they were married, they could claim an additional 320 acres for their wife. Widows could hold title to land, but single women could not. Territorial officials began their terms on March 3, 1849, in Oregon City, when Oregon was still predominantly wilderness. Homesteads usually consisted of one room log houses with vegetable gardens and a few acres planted in wheat. With little hard currency available, wheat was the primary medium of exchange. Few roads existed, so water was the quickest way to move crops and supplies. Some settlers laid out townsites from their claims. John McLoughlin was the first to do this when he platted Oregon City in 1842. Despite the steady flow of immigrants to Oregon, many settlers were genuinely isolated. Only five newspapers were published in 1849. Post offices did not appear in most towns until the 1850s, and stage coaches and express companies were just beginning to operate. When gold was discovered in Southern Oregon during the 1850s, the government opened more roads. During its brief existence, the territorial government was deluged with petitions from citizens who asked for laws in all areas of everyday life. They wanted divorces, schools, and pensions; prohibition of liquor; care for the insane; college charters and release from militia duty. On February 14,1859, as the national debate over slavery was drawing to a close, Oregon was admitted to the union as the thirty-third state. from the Archives site

Laura C wrote: [snip] > Information on ordering information from Oregon Vital Statistics, obits, > marriages, birth records. [snip] > The fee for one copy is $25 and includes a $10 > quick processing fee. Or, for 25 cents per page plus postage you can receive vital records or census copies from the State of Oregon Archives. For information and instructions, check out http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/reference.html -- no obits, but for vital records you can't beat the cost! The state also maintains a searchable genealogical data base at http://159.121.115.13/databases/searchgeneal.html. Beth Perry Johnston Newport, Oregon

OBITS FROM OREGON Information on ordering information from Oregon Vital Statistics, obits, marriages, birth records. Ordering on the Internet: You may order directly on Vital Chek's web page at www.VitalChek.com. You may enter information directly, or download a form to complete and fax in to us at (503) 234-8417. In either case, the order must be billed to a credit card. The fee for one copy is $25 and includes a $10 quick processing fee. Orders are mailed the next working day unless record problems are discovered Lots more information here http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/chs/certif/certfaqs.htm#directions http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/chs/certif/certfaqs.htm http://www.state.or.us/oolfaqs.htm

Listers and researchers Found this to share!! Enjoy your searching of the state for your ancestors. Laura October 06 -- October 08 Applegate Trail Wagon Train Re-enactment Celebration City: Sunny Valley, OR Phone: 888-411-1846 http://www.traveloregon.com/events.cfm?eventNum=7 Search for events http://www.traveloregon.com/news.cfm All visitor bureaus http://www.traveloregon.com/vcenters.cfm Most asked questions about Oregon http://www.state.or.us/oolfaqs.htm Vital Records for OBITS You can visit the website of Oregon Health Division, Center for Health Statistics (and Vital Records) - http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/chs/certif/certfaqs.htm.