[or-roots] need research help

[Sue Steward]

Good words of advice, Pat.  I will say that the staff at the archives is 
very helpful, however you need to know what you are looking for in order 
for them to help you.  Get your ducks in a row before you go there and 
it will be much easier on everyone concerned.

Sue

On 7/18/2011 1:09 PM, Kith-n-Kin wrote:
>
> Words of advice! Be sure you have your death certificate requests in 
> County, year, month order -- not with the DC number. That doesn't help 
> much.
>
> Probably the delayed Birth certificates as well. And, also. My 
> grandmother was born in (now) Lincoln County. It was Lincoln when she 
> ordered the BC (from Jackson County). But, when she was born it was 
> Benton. So, be sure you know what county you're looking in.
>
> Pat D
>
> In Tucson
>
> *From:*or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us 
> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] *On Behalf Of 
> *Leslie Chapman
> *Sent:* Monday, July 18, 2011 12:48 PM
> *To:* or-roots mail list
> *Subject:* Re: [or-roots] need research help
>
> Viola; have you vetted their online index for things in the collection 
> of interest. If you have a laundry list in hand it makes searching so 
> much easier. The only time I have been able to go there it was a cold 
> call and I had no information with me so had to pull names from memory 
> and only found a couple of items of interest.
>
> Les C
>
> --- On *Fri, 7/15/11, ViolaRae Kassing /<vkassing at minn.net>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: ViolaRae Kassing <vkassing at minn.net>
> Subject: [or-roots] need research help
> To: "'or-roots mail list'" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Date: Friday, July 15, 2011, 6:22 PM
>
>     I will be in Salem, Or and want to get some genealogy work done. 
>     I would like to obtain birth and death records, possibly some
>     marriage records. The records will be from Malheur County.  They
>     lost much of their courthouse records in the flood of 1950 aprox. 
>     Since the records were supposedly sent to "state" . . .
>
>
>
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