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<DIV>In a message dated 6/15/05 4:44:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, hwhamilton2@msn.com writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>My cousin, Alexander B. Hamilton, died in Portland Dec 23 1898. I have<BR>tried to find his obituary in the Ancestry.com newspaper and obituary <BR>databases without<BR>success-- they do not cover the year 1898. I would really appreciate it if <BR>someone could do a lookup for me. Thanks ever so much.<BR><BR>Helen </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Sorry, Helen</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">I can send the wording of an obituary printed within the past 30-days for no charge or<BR>you can get that same wording on line. I can no longer look up obituaries more than<BR>30-days old.<BR> <BR>When I first started indexing Register-Guard obituaries in 1997, I never dreamed that they would be archived somewhere forever. I intended them to be "throw-away" bits of information and was happy to send obituaries for the past 30-days.<BR> <BR>I have no way of looking at back issues more than 30 days old. I would suggest that you go to the Oregon Genealogical Society website<BR> <A href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~orlncogs/ogsinfo.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~orlncogs/ogsinfo.htm</A><BR>and look under research. I think from there you can email the head researcher and the cost is quite nominal as explained on the website.<BR> <BR>A friend of mine also does newspaper lookups at the UO Knight library. I don't know his current charge, but you can email him at <A href="mailto:GToftdahl@aol.com">GToftdahl@aol.com</A> <BR> <BR>I hope this is helpful to you.<BR>Linda VanOrden<BR>Junction City, OR <A href="mailto:LinLouVan@aol.com">LinLouVan@aol.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>