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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I would second Linda’s comments. I have the US </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>subscription to Ancestry.com and a subscription to GenealogyBank.com (both are extremely useful). I also subscribed to WorldVitalRecords.com not long ago because they said they <span style='color:black'>had newspapers. I do not find it useful as of yet. I don’t subscribe to Fold3 but it is good for military records. And Heritage Quest is excellent for it’s PERSI <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Another site I find useful for Oregon is <a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/</a> - you can narrow the searches to Oregon – it covers only up to 1922 but includes some smaller newspapers and it is free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Another site that is free and helpful for locating articles is <a href="http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dc/newspaper/index.php?newspaper=oregonian">http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dc/newspaper/index.php?newspaper=oregonian</a> where the years 1852-1987 are partially indexed. Sometimes that helps give a little more detail about the articles and leaves out advertisements – helpful with more common names<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>There is also a California site (if your relatives wandered south a bit) at <a href="http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr/cgi-bin/newsucr?a=q">http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr/cgi-bin/newsucr?a=q</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Just a few sites that came to mind with this discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denise Sproed (Descendant of many early Oregon Pioneers)<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My genealogy related pages are at:<br><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</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) <a href="http://www.whollygenes.com/">http://www.whollygenes.com/</a></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>