<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font face="arial" size="2">Thanks Sue, can't share information like that enough; here are some more very useful links and yes they are non Oregon, but most of these links are ones I found doing background on my Oregon folk, that counts doesn't it?</font><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/" style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1344444649_0" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; ">http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/</span></a> </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">That is the link to Washington Digital archives</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; ">If you are not familiar with them you might find some other sites I will
paste in useful too. None of these data bases will have any where near every thing you might want them to have and I have not been able to discern any real pattern to what is and is not there. The MO and AZ also have a lot of scanned original documents, the others I am going to list here are only indexes.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernstates/index.cfm" style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1344444649_1" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;
">http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernstates/index.cfm</span></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; ">This first one is a BYU link to a whole bunch of information, but the AZ index that provides access to scanned stuff for some info is half way down the right hand column</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/gendisx/search.htm" style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; "><span class="yshortcuts"
id="lw_1344444649_2" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; ">http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/gendisx/search.htm</span></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/" style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1344444649_3" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; ">http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords/</span></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; ">Oh
my Illinois has changed their stinking site again, not sure what you will find here, but it looks like a lot of original documents;</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/" style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1344444649_4" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; ">http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/</span></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height:
1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><font face="arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 15.933332443237305px;">Unfortunately as far as I can tell the search engine is not effective, I tried half a dozen items in complete mystery before discovering that the data base I was querying had an address in all entries using the term I was querying on. I tried a different surname and got four hits, looking at the first one I noted at top of screen an entry saying zero hits for my search term in that document???? I will add there is </span><span style="line-height: 15.920000076293945px;">fascinating</span><span style="line-height: 15.933332443237305px;"> stuff there even if the search engine is useless</span></font></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline:
none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; ">Man this was a pain to find;</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/home.html" style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1344444649_5" style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none;
">http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/databases/home.html</span></a></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; ">about half way down are two death indexes and the marriage index, again not every death or marriage in Illinois is in these, but they are an immense help and I believe there is a mechanism to purchase any document you really want. the Wisconsin index is very user friendly to purchase docments from, the one time I did they were $8 each. I haven't checked price lately.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; outline: none; "><br style="line-height: 1.2em; outline: none; "></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.933332443237305px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: none; ">Les C</div></div><br><br><blockquote style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; "><br>From: Sue Steward <ssteward@ccountry.net><br><br><div id="yiv625159434">
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Just bringing this forward again, a website that Les mentioned a few
years ago. Some interesting info there.<br>
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Sue<br>
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<pre>Just stumbled across an interesting Rootsweb site I don't recall seeing before;
<a rel="nofollow" class="yiv625159434moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ormultno/VR/deaths/dnews.htm">http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ormultno/VR/deaths/dnews.htm</a>
is a page of deaths abstracted from "Early Oregon Newspapers"
Les C
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