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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=406160716-06032007>Denise</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=406160716-06032007>There's a lot of
information in the DLC -- including where the male DLC applicant was born, where
he and his spouse were married, and so on. There will be affidavits regarding
when they arrived "in Oregon" and took up the land, and so on. What is not
there, at least on the ones I found, is the family name of the wife. Typically,
she was "Catherine SurnameOfHusband". You will find other family members,
sometimes, as they attest that "I have known x and y to have lived as husband
and wife for 20 years" and things like that. Or, you may find someone making
that statement to be a neighbor "back in Missouri" -- or wherever.
Interestingly, 'way back when, someone apparently went through and put the
family name of the wife on the package, so even though it is not "attested to"
you may find the name.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=406160716-06032007>The DLC
microfilms are at both the Archives and the Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO),
and perhaps other places.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406160716-06032007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=406160716-06032007>A couple of weeks
ago I was at the GFO and found out some interesting things. There is no regular
microfilm printer there anymore. They have a digital microfilm scanner, which
then can be printed out. This is great, as it gives better prints than some of
the microfilm printers, and you can also (if you have a flash drive or external
hard drive with you) save the image as a jpeg and copy it to your drive.
This will help, especially because some of the documents show up on the screen
very large, and cannot be scanned as one image. Or, I never figured out how to
"zoom" -- yah think? Anyway, it has some real benefits, but the downside
is that it takes a very long time to do this. Say five-ten minutes per page.
And, then, another five or so for the printer to print. I was there for a very
long time and got two complete files.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=406160716-06032007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=406160716-06032007>The other thing I
learned, from one of the volunteers, is that the originals for these is at the
National Archives in Seattle. So, you can go there, with your document numbers,
and they can print out a "from original" copy. Not sure about the sizes, perhaps
someone can enlighten us on that. The volunteer did say that she got a copy of
the actual grant at full size, which was about 15x20. </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=406160716-06032007>Pat (in
Tucson)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Denise<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 06, 2007 06:47<BR><B>To:</B>
or-roots@www.sos.state.or.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Donation Land
Claims<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>I hate to confess this but I've not actually looked at a
donation land claim. Is there more data in them than was listed in the
OR DLC book? (other than just better descriptions of the
land)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I've been going thru the book of abstractions and
documenting all the people in my database that are listed as I didn't have it
"sourced" well before even tho I'd looked them up before in the abstraction
books.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>In addition to the Forum in Portland, are the DLC materials
at the OR Archives?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Denise</FONT></DIV>
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