[or-roots] RE: Umatilla Look-ups

[Leslie Chapman]

Okay Folks;

This is going to confuse a few of you, I did the search Albert asked for;
searching "Oregon Trail" gives you 626,000 hits, searching within those for
1851 reduces it to 11,400 hits: now I "might" be a nice guy, BUT   .   .   .
not that nice, so I further restricted it to "passenger list" and the first
thing that comes up is;

http://www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html

Which, as far as I can tell, has NOTHING to do with the Oregon Trail, it
does, however, have scads of interesting information  which seems to come
primarily from Panama (???) about the comings and goings of (mostly)
Americans. For instance there is a list of dead Americans reported to the
Consulate, I am a little vague as to exactly what this list is, I am pretty
sure they didn't all die on that date and suspect they may not all have even
died in Panama, but the big thing is if you have a relative who vanished
into thin air and he or she IS on this list, all of a sudden you have
greatly narrowed down your search.

There is a search engine at the bottom of the page which I assume is for the
complete web site. I was very disappointed that my Tacks didn't show up
there, but if they came around the Horn that would make sense.

# 2 was the site Carroll mentioned. Then;
http://www.pacifier.com/~karenl/genealogy_resources.htm looks real
interesting, unfortunately mostly broken links, also if your Kin weren't
Finn she may not have them.

After several mostly useless links, I came to one that is kind of like
Cyndi's list, but has a lot of bad links and links to commercial genealogy
stuff, so won't bother, then;
http://www.lib.pg.bc.ca/genealogy/american.html
which is a nationwide links page which the big thing I notice is every state
is headed with a link to the 1895 atlas web site, I didn't check to see if
they were current links or not, if not I can supply that link, but what I
especially notice is

ALBERT, ATTENTION PLEASE: they have a link to The Oregon trail list on
OR-roots, now I am sure I knew it existed, but for some reason didn't
remember, and am asking; Albert, did you already mention this?

http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OR/misc.html  will take you to a
comprehensive list of Or-Roots Oregon lists including the Oregon Trail one.,

http://www.mccormickbooks.com/genealogyjournals.html is another fascinating
source for genealogy stuff, but I can't see what it has to do with the
Oregon Trail

http://www.mccormickbooks.com/genealogyjournals.html is an interesting site,
but nothig for the Trail that I could see.

And that, I am sorry to say, is all I could come up with, lots of neat
stuff, but not much for Albert.

I am further astonished that Heritage Quest doesn't seem to have anything in
their book collection on the Oregon trail.

Sorry Gang.

LEs C


-----Original Message-----
From:  Albert Belanger
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 7:02 AM
Subject: [or-roots] RE: Umatilla Look-ups


Bonjour,

Again, I apologize for using the list for this response to Les'
offer.......



Les, I wonder if it would be possible to do a "Find/Search" for the year
"1851" and come up with the folks who're identified as coming over the
Trail that year?


Thanks,

Albert


Researching the 1851 Oregon Trail Migration

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