<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Denise, how does one access Heritage Quest? I have a Chemeketa Regional Library card through the Stayton Library; also belong to the Willamette Valley Genealogical Society and Linn Gen. Society. I browsed through GenealogyBank today--you can look around, but not get much info, without paying. I checked out several states for their available newspapers. At the moment not much I could use, but others might find many of their areas of interest are included. thanks for your suggestions!<br></span></div><div> </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Denise Sproed <DeniseSproed@onlinenw.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'or-roots mail list' <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 13, 2012 9:23 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [or-roots] Helpful sites for searches<br> </font> </div> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv657175205WordSection1"><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">I would second Linda’s comments. I have the US </span><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";">subscription to Ancestry.com and a subscription to <a target="_blank" href="http://GenealogyBank.com">GenealogyBank.com</a> (both are extremely useful). I also subscribed to <a target="_blank" href="http://WorldVitalRecords.com">WorldVitalRecords.com</a> 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 </span></span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Another site I find useful for Oregon is http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ - you can narrow the searches to Oregon – it covers only up to 1922 but includes some smaller newspapers and it is free.</span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Another site that is free and helpful for locating articles is http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dc/newspaper/index.php?newspaper=oregonian 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</span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div
class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">There is also a California site (if your relatives wandered south a bit) at http://cdnc.ucr.edu/newsucr/cgi-bin/newsucr?a=q</span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;">Just a few sites that came to mind with this discussion.</span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:black;"> </span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Denise Sproed (Descendant of many early Oregon Pioneers)</span></div><div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">My genealogy related pages are at:<br>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/<br>The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;"></span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div class="yiv657175205MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">User of The Master Genealogist (TMG) http://www.whollygenes.com/</span><span
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