THE GENEALOGICAL FORUM OF OREGON’S Wednesday Evening E-News
2 December 2015
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That’s right, you heard it here: Genealogy in the News!
Ever wonder what use handwritten letters might have in the future?
Will anyone want to cherish these scraps of paper the way you feel they should be cherished? Will anyone care at all to read and study the tales of family history contained in their ink-stained pages?
An article from The Guardian, November 08, 2015 shows just how valuable long lost letters can be, both to scholars of general history, but also to genealogical research.
Did someone say census data??
Portland State Univesity has created a wonderfully insightful and interactive collection of maps and graphs showing “Oregon’s Road to 4 Million” via census records data from 1859 to current. Researchers with Oregon genealogy in their history can find some very telling information just by viewing the trends in population growth and migration changes over the last 150 years.
Announcing, not one, but TWO new indexes at the GFO!
Try to contain your excitement, folks, but not too much, because the GFO’s Friday Morning Data Extraction Team needs a huge three cheers of thanks.
Because of the hard work of the Extraction Team, we now have two new indexes of Oregon State Divorce records.
The new indexes are available at $10 each and may be purchased as eityher a CD or on a USB drive.
Come get them while they’re still hot:
•Volume 1: Oregon State Divorces 1925-1929
•Volume 2: Oregon State Divorces 1930-1934
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The team is currently working on divorces from 1935-1939 (expected index availability is 2016) and is in the early stages of working on divorces from 1940 – 1945. Continue reading →
