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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-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am not aware of DLC filings in a Lakeview office.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.gfo.org/donation/index.htm">http://www.gfo.org/donation/index.htm</a>  is a site that lists a sort of index to all the land office filings by last name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m not certain what they did with paperwork that was incomplete or not “proved up”.  Timothy Long didn’t appear in the rejected list but that may not be where he would be listed if he didn’t complete the process.  It is possible those records would have been “tossed” as incomplete as they didn’t result in a transaction for land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You might want to check for a Homestead or land purchase by land patent.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The following link gives you an option for Land Patents.  <a href="http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/">http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I only saw Thomas Long in the list but there are a number of LONG claims in Lake County.  The Land Patents might not appear in the Deed Records until they went to transfer the property.  That has been my observation with my own relatives in Douglas County.  The courthouse records don’t show the land record until they go to sell the land they had by Patent, or DLC.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hope some of those links will be helpful to folks searching for land related questions in Oregon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denise<o:p></o:p></span></p><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'>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></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.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</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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob&Diane<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 05, 2012 4:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] Donation land claims<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Denise. I think that Timothy Long DLC would have been filed in Lakeview. Was at the Courthouse again and could not find anything. Thanks for looking. <br><br>Denise Sproed &lt;DeniseSproed@onlinenw.com&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is a book (Volume IV Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims – Abstracted from Rejected Applications) that covers DLC’s filed in Oregon City, Roseburg & The Dalles Land Offices)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The index lists the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Long, Catharine E.  p 36</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David                    p 3, 47</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Daniel                   p 3</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>James                   p 7</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sarah Ann            p 36</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nothing in that book for Timothy Long.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I haven’t researched the question to know if that is ALL of the incomplete DLC’s.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denise Sproed</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><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><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]">[mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Diane<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br><b>Subject:</b> [or-roots] Donation land claims</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Is there a on-location where DLC's were filed and then not proven  up on?  I am searching for Timothy Long...who apparently died and was buried in the Paisley cemetery in 1882.  There is a Tim Long creek south of Paisley.  In 1880 he and a George Pike lived together in HH34/34.  According to local lore he was killed in what for years was called Deadman's Hall.  The location of that building is yet to be rediscovered!  He was age 51 in 1880 census and from Ireland.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>My main question is.....about the not proven up DLC's but yet originally filed upon?  The only ones I could find in blmglo records were finished filings.  </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:navy'>Thanks, Diane</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>