[or-roots] genealogical gold mine

[Harguess, Dale]

Again to put my two cents in.  I would think that most good sized
genealogical libraries in Oregon would have these books.  I know that
they have them at the Linn County Genealogical Society and like I said
earlier the Huntington Beach Cal. Library has a set too.

Dale

 

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You're right, Les...these books are extremely helpful, especially for
people just starting to look at their family history.  The entries not
only provide straight data, but there are also clues in terms of
relationships (sometimes) in the names of those individuals who were
listed as witnesses.  I bought the set quite a few years ago from the
Portland Genealogical Forum...back in the day before "online".
Publications such as these were crucial to research prior to the
Internet...and bless the people who painstakingly extracted this data by
hand...and typed it all out for us.  The books were not hugely expensive
at the time I bought them, and considering all the effort that went into
them, I feel strongly that royalties should accrue to people who
produced them.  I haven't looked recently, but the Genealogical Forum
used to hae quite a number of equally helpful publications, inlcuding
cemetery, marriage, birth, and death records from selected areas.  Might
still be worth checking that out!

 

Carla

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