[or-roots] My Family Information

[Dale Harguess]

I visited that library several years ago when I was on a genealogical road
trip with my sister.  I found all kinds of information about my Hoskins
family.  It was a treasure.

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On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 4:46 PM Virginia Roberts <gugin1013 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David,
> I am certain I can help you.  I live in Pendleton and do genealogical
> research for the library, historical society and the genealogical society.
> There were 2 William Crow families in the county at the smae time, both
> have John W descendents and I have researched both.
>
> At the library we have  some very valuable b=books, such as one with brief
> obituary information from the old Mlton newspapers ,
>
> Please contact me so I can be sure which Crowe family  you are connected
> with..
>
> Virginia Roberts
>
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:41 PM Dale Harguess <daleharguess4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't think I can help you with your family, but congratulations on
>> finding your birth family.  I had a similar situation with my cousin and
>> his brother were adopted out of the family when their mother died.  I was a
>> year older than him but I still remember going to his mother's funeral.  I
>> looked for him for many years.  His brother stayed in the family but went
>> to my father's step brother so I always knew where he was.  Finally about
>> five years ago on the Ancestry DNA site there was a match but the person
>> had no tree.  I contacted him (because you could do that then, not now) and
>> asked him about his family.  He answered back, "I don't know, I was
>> adopted"  anyway long story short we connected and I sent him pictures of
>> his birth family including one when he was only about two years old.  I
>> wish it had a happy ending but unfortunately about two years ago he was
>> killed in a head on car accident.  I am thankful that I at least got to
>> finally find him.  He had a closed adoption and had even hired a private
>> detective to help him find his birth parents.  Finally his best friend told
>> him to take the DNA test.  It showed up on St. Patrick's day that year.
>> Another very lucky thing for me was that I had my mother's DNA tested and
>> it revealed that the man she thought was her father, was really her step
>> father.  Her mother never married her father because he was shipped off to
>> WWI before she even knew she was pregnant.  I now have several new cousins
>> with one of them being a first cousin who lives in Portland.  I have yet to
>> meet her in person but we have talked on the phone.
>> I just love genealogy.
>> Dale
>> P.S. my grandmother grew up in Milton Freewater.
>>
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>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 12:05 PM David Weaver <DLWeaver40 at outlook.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> My name is David Weaver.  I have searched for my birth family for years
>>> as I was adopted at birth. Then about 3 years ago through Ancestry.com DNA
>>> I connected with a sister, so very exciting! Today I have close to 1000
>>> family members in my tree. This includes both my father's and mother's
>>> families. My Father's name is Donald Eugene Crowe and my mother's name is
>>> Jeanne Fisk. As far as I know they never married. Two sisters one from each
>>> family have confirmed my relationship. I currently live in Oregon and
>>> belong to a local genealogy group. I recently learned that two of my
>>> ancestor families  came to Oregon on the southern trail. Following is the
>>> information I have discovered. My 2nd Great Grand Father: William R Crowe:
>>> B:1802>Flint Hills, St Charles, Missouri 1850>Weber, Utah Territory
>>> 1853>Town?, Benton  County, Oregon 1860 Butte, Benton, Oregon, D:1890
>>> >Umatilla, Umatilla, Oregon.  My Great Grandfather: William Perry Crowe:
>>> B:1829 >Flint Hills, St Charles, Missouri >1880 Milton, Umatilla, Oregon,
>>> >1900 Milton,  Umatilla, Oregon, D:1900 >Milton-Freewater, Umatilla,
>>> Oregon.  My Grandfather: Marion Douglas Crowe B:1861>Lane, Oregon >1880
>>> Milton, Umatilla, Oregon >1900 Long Beach, Los Angeles, California,
>>> 1910>Santa Paula, Ventura, California >1920 D:1921 Long Beach, Los Angeles,
>>> California. I would greatly appreciate learning more about my families.
>>> Sincerely, David
>>>
>>
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