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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I thought I would share a short report on resources
in Umatilla County. A chain of circumstances occurred so that I was
traveling through Pendleton mid-day so I stopped at the Olney Cemetery
office. I've never been up to walking the entire cemetery to locate my
relatives graves. The ladies in the office were very gracious and helpful
and in the end I copied their Excel sheet file so I could continue to work on
extracting the 27 relatives details and possibly find some others (so far I have
30 so I found 3 more). I then stopped at the Museum in Pendleton (at a
train station) and they have family surname files as well as photo files.
Then I stopped at the Pendleton Public Library. They have a nice obituary
file that I believe covered from the mid-1980's forward (can't recall the exact
year) and a family file as well as the Genealogy Society book collection.
They also have the Eastern Oregonian on microfilm. Unfortunately I
only had 30 minutes there but I enjoyed learning more about the resources.
Thought I would share in case anyone else gets to pass thru Pendleton and has a
few moments to do research. The people in Pendleton were ALL very gracious
and helpful.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Denise Sproed Merritt</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>The web page I made for my parents is at: <A
href="http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>My genealogy related pages are at:<BR><A
href="http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/</A><BR>and
<A
href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/">http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/</A><BR>The
latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) <A
href="http://www.whollygenes.com/">http://www.whollygenes.com/</A></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>