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<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Bonjour,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Welcome aboard.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Do you have any </span></font><st1:place>Oregon
Trail</st1:place> ancestors of 1851? My wife's BLANCHARD ancestors were on
that trek.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I have been working on a
project on that particular migration for 18 years, and have landed a publisher.
There were CLARK families on the Trail that year.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Your humble servant &.,
&c.,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='tab-stops:108.3pt'><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Albert <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Albert Edward Belanger<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:Street><st1:address><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>128 Middle
Road</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><st1:City><font size=2 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Brentwood</span></font></st1:City><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'>, </span><st1:State><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'>NH</span></st1:State><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'> </span><st1:PostalCode><span style='mso-no-proof:
yes'>03833</span></st1:PostalCode></st1:place><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Researching the 1851 </span></font><st1:place><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'>Oregon Trail</span></st1:place><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'> Migration<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>From: "Carroll Clark" <w7iml@gte.net><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>To: <or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Sent: </span></font><st1:date Month="3" Day="15"
Year="2005">Tuesday, March 15, 2005</st1:date> <st1:time Hour="15" Minute="37">3:37
PM</st1:time><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Is the server down?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> Hi Bruce, Ronda, and Nancy.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I don't know you, & U don't know me,
as yet.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> I've been "lurking" here for about 3
weeks to try to get the "feel" of <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> this<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> bulletin site.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> I have </span></font><st1:State><st1:place>Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>
roots from back in the 1847 - 1865 era and relatives beyond<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> those years living in OR and along the </span></font><st1:place>Columbia
River</st1:place>, both OR & WA sides<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> who are anc. of those earlier clans.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I am a ham radio opr. (amateur radio<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> opr) who "works" OR hams so I am
interested in </span></font><st1:State><st1:place>Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>
for many reasons.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> I hope to find some things that I might
contribute, or gain from this <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> site,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> so that is why I subscribed to it and was
accepted<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> to come aboard.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Now, I need to see how I can contribute
and/or pick the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> brains of some fine </span></font><st1:State><st1:place>Oregon</st1:place></st1:State>
people who are<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> on here.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>As we
say in ham radio slanguage<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>73,
which translates to Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> (Mr) Carroll Clark in Snohomish, WA 30 mi. NE of
Seattle; b. here but have<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>> many roots with Oregon Settlement, History, etc.
to share.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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