Hello Janice, Jan, and all. The books mentioned below are available at the GFO library, and are also available for purchase. To review what is available, go to: http://www.gfo.org/pubslist.pdf Here's a little of what is available: Oregon Trail and Donation Land Claims 201 Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims-Volume I, Claims # 1-2500, pp. 152. $10.00 202 Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims-Volume II, Claims #2501-5289, pp. 197. $12.00 203 Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims-Volume III, pp. 230. $14.00 204 Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims-Volume IV, pp. 159. $10.00 205 Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims-Volume V, pp. 243. $15.00 206 Geographic Index to Oregon Donation Land Claims-Volumes I & II (Publications 201 & 202), pp. 19. $3.00 207 Index to Oregon Donation Land Claims, 2nd Edition, pp. 172. $11.00 210 Oregon Provisional Land Claims-Volumes I-VIII, pp. 300. $20.00 501 E. L (Roy) Meyers Booklet (Barlow Trail), pp. 54. $5.00 Laurel -----Original Message----- From: orforum-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:orforum-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janice M. Healy Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 6:19 AM To: ORFORUM-D@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GFO] Old Land Records Under The Oregon Provisional Government >Snip....... land records. The book was compiled by Lottie LeGett Gurley >(Mrs. Wayne E.), called "Genealogical Material in Oregon Provisional >Land Claims, Abstracted Volumes 1-VIII, 1845-1849," and was published >by GFO. This book included a map showing the 4 districts set up by the >provisional government, and the verbiage of four of the Acts in the >Constitution dealing with land. Hi Jan and all list members especially you newer folks, Yes, Lottie's books are a wealth of information on the early land Records. You will find that the Index covers all of the books. That Vol 1-5 are Donation land claims and Vol 6 are the provisional ones. Also all of the Volumes 1-6 have an index in the back. Once you find your Donation land claim don't forget to go into the BLM records on line they have been slowly putting up copies of the certificates for the different land claims across the USA. I am not sure how much of Oregon they have up. All the states that I have used are very spotty as to what has been posted. It is my understanding that all will eventually be put up. Also at one time the Forum and a set of the film for these land claims from BLM. I haven't used them so someone else will have to point out just what they cover. (No I have no Oregon ancestors.) On the BLM web site there is also a place where you for a fee can order copies of the papers for your families donation land claims. These were published by the Forum over a period of years, the first Volume doesn't say when it was published. Volume 2 says 1959. Volume 6 are the provisional land claims and were published in 1982. My set says they were reprinted in 1980 and the index that I have is the 2nd edition published in 1987. I think that there are probably other reprints of these fantastic books. These have long been considered the bible for early land records in Oregon and the Oregon Territory before home computers they were all we had to use. We owe a lot to Lottie for her tireless effort over such a long period of time to produce these magnificent books. She is greatly missed by those who knew her. Hopefully this will be of help to all of you, -- Janice M. Healy Co-compiler of "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Aloha, Oregon U.S.A. Mailto:jmhealy1@comcast.net "Oregon Burial Site Guide" http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/obsg.html Plan ahead for the following conferences: FGS Birmingham, AL 29 Aug - 1 Sept 2012 NGS Las Vegas, NV 8-11 May 2013 FGS Fort Wayne, IN 29 Aug - 1 Sept 2013 Public service site Please help these folks need to find their families http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ancestors.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORFORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message