Oregon Land and Property: Difference between revisions

=== Provisional, Territorial, and Federal Land Office Records  ===

[[Portal:Oregon|Oregon]] land records during the territorial period, 1845 to 1849, were filed with the provisional recorder. These papers are now in the [http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/ Oregon State Archives]. Abstracts of therecords are in ''Oregon Provisional Land Claims—Volumes I–VIII'' (Portland: Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 1987).

The thousands of settlers who settled in the Oregon Territory before December 1, 1855 were eligible to receive donation land claims. The size of the land was dependant upon the date of the arrival and the marital status of the claimant. The applications for these free lands may provide birth, marriage, citizenship, migration, or other valuable information.  

Records of the original donation land claims are in the National Archives. Microfilm copies of the records are available at the National Archives—Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle); at the Family History Library; Oregon and Washington Donation Land Files, 1851- 1903 (Family History Library films 1028543 and 1490152-242), at the Oregon State Archives, and the [http://www.gfo.org Genealogical Forum of Oregon]. 

Abstracts of the donation land claims are published in: ''Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims'', 5 vols. (Portland: Genealogical Forum of Portland, 1957-1975; Family History Library book 979.5 R2g; vol. 4 on film 823831 item 7; vols. 1-5 on fiche 6051173). An alphabetical index to the claims is available at the Oregon State Library. A published index to the claims is Oregon State Archives, comp., ''Index to Oregon Donation Land Claims ''(Portland: Genealogical Forum, 1953-57; Family History Library film 874373 item 2; fiche 6051271). An [http://www.gfo.org/dlc/index.htm Index to the Claimaints] can be found on the website of the Genealogical Forum of Oregon.