[or-roots] Lincoln County Courthouse / historical society

[Leslie Chapman]

Twyla and all;

Both courthouse and Historical society holdings are going to be subject to
the vagaries of current and past "people in Charge" Ferinstance our current
Douglas Co. Clerk is very "help the public/save those records" oriented, and
is busting her budget to be sure that all county records are going to be
preserved in SOME fashion. The primary thrust is to record images of "old"
stuff which space and lack of relevance dictate must be disposed of in their
original form. They are also very open about providing access to any records
they legally can.

But I don't know about Lincoln county, I have had some professional dealings
with the Lincoln County folk and it hasn't ALL been a "warm fuzzy"
experience. That said, the county clerk herself was very cordial and
helpful.

As to Historical society info, there again you are dealing with the vagaries
of "people in charge"; by and large I would think if an individual came to a
historical society and said I have this stack of birth records for Kalamazoo
for 1750 to 1800 from the Captist Church, I would bet most societies would
accept them even if they had a general policy that they were only concerned
with "their area". The other thing you have to consider is that in the
larger sense most any historical society in any county in western Oregon can
justify whatever they want to keep because of the number of changes in
county boundaries and the fact that most of western Oregon at one time was
in Benton County.

That being said someone will probably chime in to inform us that the Lincoln
County Society doesn't consider Yachats as part of their Ken or some such.

Les c

-----Original Message-----
From:Twyla Poppleton
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:21 AM


Hello;
Am I to understand that there is a great deal of information about persons
OTHER THAN THOSE that are known to have lived in Lincoln County?  .........
or specific TO those inhabitants OF Lincoln County?  (Oops, if that is a
stupid question ... :-)  Thanks, Twyla
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Don't know what you wish to find out, but the Lincoln County Historical
Society has quite a bit of material.

They are at: 545 S.W. 9th St., Newport 97365, tel. 541-265-7509

I found several monographs and notes, as well as publications, relating
to early years and my family.

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