[or-roots] Oregon website

[Leslie Chapman]

Thanks Sue, can't share information like that enough; here are some more very useful links and yes they are non Oregon, but most of these links are ones I found doing background on my Oregon folk, that counts doesn't it?
http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/ 
That is the link to Washington Digital archives
If you are not familiar with them you might find some other sites I will paste in useful too. None of these data bases will have any where near every thing you might want them to have and I have not been able to discern any real pattern to what is and is not there. The MO and AZ also have a lot of scanned original documents, the others I am going to list here are only indexes.
http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernstates/index.cfmThis first one is a BYU link to a whole bunch of information, but the AZ index that provides access to scanned stuff for some info is half way down the right hand column
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/gendisx/search.htmhttp://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/
Oh my Illinois has changed their stinking site again, not sure what you will find here, but it looks like a lot of original documents;
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/
Unfortunately as far as I can tell the search engine is not effective, I tried half a dozen items in complete mystery before discovering that the data base I was querying had an address in all entries using the term I was querying on. I tried a different surname and got four hits, looking at the first one I noted at top of screen an entry saying zero hits for my search term in that document???? I will add there is fascinating stuff there even if the search engine is useless
Man this was a pain to find;
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/home.html
about half way down are two death indexes and the marriage index, again not every death or marriage in Illinois is in these, but they are an immense help and I believe there is a mechanism to purchase any document you really want. the Wisconsin index is very user friendly to purchase docments from, the one time I did they were $8 each. I haven't checked price lately.
Les C


From: Sue Steward <ssteward at ccountry.net>


  

    
  
  
    Just bringing this forward again, a website that Les mentioned a few
    years ago.  Some interesting info there.

    

    Sue

    

      Just stumbled across an interesting Rootsweb site I don't recall seeing before;

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ormultno/VR/deaths/dnews.htm

is a  page of deaths abstracted from "Early Oregon Newspapers"

Les C
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