Your gripe is a common one. They've been working on updating the indices available directly from the archives at http://genealogy.state.or.us/ but it's a slow process. Last time I looked at the Oregon Death Index (only available at Ancestry which I access at the public library) it included the death date, so it's pretty unfortuntate if it's been removed. Finding it on the microfilm is pretty easy though if you have a couple you'd like me to look up. The death certificate holdings at the archives go from 1903-1958, but for a quarter and a little time with the microfilm reader I get to make a copy from the original. Marriage Certificates, on the other hand vary from county to county. If you know the county, you can look it up in the Records Guide here: http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cpquick.html and it will let you know who holds the record. - Stephen On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Wilma (Younger) Norton < wilma.norton@cox.net> wrote: > Thanks for the offer, Stephen. The one thing that messes me up, the Oregon > Marriages online at ancestry have the groom's name and date of marriage, > but > not the bride's name! Frustrating. And the Oregon Death Index doesn't > give > the date, so it's impossible to be sure if the person listed is the one you > are looking for. They (Oregon) could greatly improve their website and be > far more helpful. > > My gripe for today. > > Wilma > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "L S Y" <lsy.genealogy@gmail.com> > To: <younger@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:40 PM > Subject: Re: [YOUNGER] Oregon Youngers > > > > My grandfather (Dick Younger, son of Charlie & Rutha of Stone County) > > settled here (in Oregon) in 1945. I've seen others in the tax rolls as > > far > > back as the mid-1850s, but none on the 1850 Census. There used to be > > quite > > a few Youngers in the Portland area whose families had been here longer > > than > > ours, but I haven't run across any of them for a while. > > > > Since I work about three miles from the Oregon State Archives, if there's > > every anything in their holdings you'd like me to look up, just let me > > know. > > > > - Stephen > > > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Wilma (Younger) Norton < > > wilma.norton@cox.net> wrote: > > > >> I just finished going through the census, 1860 to 1930 looking for > >> Younger's living in Oregon. What amazed me most, is that so many of > them > >> were foreign born, from Scotland, Ireland and England. There were none > >> in > >> 1850 (at least none who were indexed). > >> > >> The only family that was somewhat familiar to me was Nero Littleton, son > >> of > >> Littleton Purcell Younger. > >> > >> Wilma > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> YOUNGER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > YOUNGER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > YOUNGER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >