[or-roots] RE: Oregon bound

[Gary Zimmerman]

Sherry Cole recently wrote:

<YEs, John Nelson Wood is my g. grandfather and we are going to go visit =
the cemetery.  I will try and get his internment records because I would =
like to find proof of his parents.  Here is the story:
Over in Nova Scotia, I found two Wood families that we are related to us =
- one claims us as relatives and it is written in a township book ---  =
and the other family is the Wood family that my Dad mentions in his =
notes to us.  That second Wood family didn't claim us because their is =
no record of us on their side.  Recently, my brother, found a family =
picture in an old trunk, of that second Wood family - it was sent in =
1900 from Nova Scotia to Oregon.  Now, not many people back then sent =
pictures that far away unless they were related!  So, I made copies of =
that picture and the second family, of course, claimed it and they were =
absolutely thrilled to get a copy (the only one in existance).  They now =
claim us but I would like actual proof.>

Sherry, if you know which church denomination they would have belonged to,
you might check with the local church near where they lived in Oregon so
see if there is any documentation about the time of their arrival that
shows where they came from and which church they attended back in Nova
Scotia.  I was tracing a family several years ago who came from the
Atlantic Provinces of Canada to eastern Washington.  In the records of the
Presbyterian Church of Davenport, Washington, I found details of the
family's relocation from New Brunswick to Washington Territory.  Since
your will be near the cemetery where the Wood family is buried, you might
also seek out the local churches to see what they have in their archives.

Gary

Gary A Zimmerman
Fiske Genealogy Library, Seattle
gzim at fiskelibrary.org
gzim at antiochsea.edu