[or-roots] Helpful sites for searches

[Linda Wiley]

Denise, how does one access Heritage Quest?  I have a Chemeketa Regional Library card through the Stayton Library; also belong to the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society and Linn Gen. Society.  I browsed through GenealogyBank today--you can look around, but not get much info, without paying.  I checked out several states for their available newspapers.  At the moment not much I could use, but others might find many of their areas of interest are included.  thanks for your suggestions!

 


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 From: Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed at onlinenw.com>
To: 'or-roots mail list' <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us> 
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:23 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Helpful sites for searches
 

I would second Linda’s comments.  I have the US subscription to Ancestry.com and a subscription to GenealogyBank.com (both are extremely useful).  I also subscribed to WorldVitalRecords.com not long ago because they said they had newspapers.  I do not find it useful as of yet.  I don’t subscribe to Fold3 but it is good for military records.  And Heritage Quest is excellent for it’s PERSI 
 
Another site I find useful for Oregon is http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ - you can narrow the searches to Oregon – it covers only up to 1922 but includes some smaller newspapers and it is free.
 
Another site that is free and helpful for locating articles is http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dc/newspaper/index.php?newspaper=oregonian  where the years 1852-1987 are partially indexed.  Sometimes that helps give a little more detail about the articles and leaves out advertisements – helpful with more common names
 
There is also a California site (if your relatives wandered south a bit) at http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr/cgi-bin/newsucr?a=q
 
Just a few sites that came to mind with this discussion.
 
Denise Sproed (Descendant of many early Oregon Pioneers)
A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists
 
My genealogy related pages are at:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site
 
User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/
 
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