Rooters: To find your way, click on this URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/maps.html Be sure to stop at this site long enough to see the intire page of Oregon from 1853 thru to last map at 1889 -- and then.....> go to. and Click - "Some Oregon Panoramic Maps" The "Beginning of my Oregon Trail was at Map #1. (copyrighted, so URLs of individual views are not sent ready to view: therefore, you must select individual sites.) Violet ================================ or-roots wrote: > This could drive you nuts. > > My father's mother was born in Wasco Co., OR in 1875. My father was > born in Crook Co., OR in 1909. His sister was born in Jefferson Co., > OR a few years later. All three were born in Lamonta, OR!! > > Way back then Wasco County was very large and Lamonta was in Wasco > County. They ceated Crook County out of part of Wasco after my > grandmother was born; this puts Lamonta in Crook County at the time > of my father's birth. Then in 1914 Jefferson is cut out of Crook > County in time for my aunt to be born. > > Same idea: > > I was mystified about some Clackamas County data until today. This > county at one time was most of Oregon Territory. It was chopped up > to make the many counties that we know today. > > Bottom Line: > > If you have only "county" data for b. d. m. of an ancestor in Oregon > in the 1800's and early 1900's that county may have been "reinvented"! > And boys and girls, can we say, "Marshfield?" Try, "Coos Bay." > > Here is a URL that has been posted before but worth posting again: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~orgenweb/ Many of the county pages have > maps "then" and "now"; check them out. > > Cecil > > -- > Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I > San Diego CA 92154-3654 > mailto:[email protected] > ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON > Searchable GEDCOM: > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cchouk > See also: > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=donhouk > My Web page menu: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/menu.htm