[or-roots] Donation Land Claims

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Denise
 
There's a lot of information in the DLC -- including where the male DLC applicant was born, where he and
his spouse were married, and so on. There will be affidavits regarding when they arrived "in Oregon" and
took up the land, and so on. What is not there, at least on the ones I found, is the family name of the
wife. Typically, she was "Catherine SurnameOfHusband".  You will find other family members, sometimes, as
they attest that "I have known x and y to have lived as husband and wife for 20 years" and things like
that. Or, you may find someone making that statement to be a neighbor "back in Missouri" -- or wherever.
Interestingly, 'way back when, someone apparently went through and put the family name of the wife on the
package, so even though it is not "attested to" you may find the name.
 
The DLC microfilms are at both the Archives and the Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO), and perhaps other
places.
 
A couple of weeks ago I was at the GFO and found out some interesting things. There is no regular
microfilm printer there anymore. They have a digital microfilm scanner, which then can be printed out.
This is great, as it gives better prints than some of the microfilm printers, and you can also (if you
have a flash drive or external hard drive with you) save the image as a jpeg and copy it to your drive.
This will help, especially because some of the documents show up on the screen very large, and cannot be
scanned as one image. Or, I never figured out how to "zoom" -- yah think?  Anyway, it has some real
benefits, but the downside is that it takes a very long time to do this. Say five-ten minutes per page.
And, then, another five or so for the printer to print. I was there for a very long time and got two
complete files.
 
The other thing I learned, from one of the volunteers, is that the originals for these is at the National
Archives in Seattle. So, you can go there, with your document numbers, and they can print out a "from
original" copy. Not sure about the sizes, perhaps someone can enlighten us on that. The volunteer did say
that she got a copy of the actual grant at full size, which was about 15x20. 
 
Pat (in Tucson)
 

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Denise
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 06:47
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Subject: [or-roots] Donation Land Claims


I hate to confess this but I've not actually looked at a donation land claim.  Is there more data in them
than was listed in the OR DLC book?  (other than just better descriptions of the land)
 
I've been going thru the book of abstractions and documenting all the people in my database that are
listed as I didn't have it "sourced" well before even tho I'd looked them up before in the abstraction
books.
 
In addition to the Forum in Portland, are the DLC materials at the OR Archives?
 
Denise

 

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