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*[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/genealogical-records-help/record-requests-frequently-asked-questions '''Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions'''] | *[https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy/genealogical-records-help/record-requests-frequently-asked-questions '''Record Requests Frequently Asked Questions'''] | ||
====Oregon Historical Society Library==== | ====Oregon Historical Society Library==== | ||
'''Oregon Historical Society'''<br> | |||
Davies Family Research Library<br> | |||
1200 SW Park Ave, 4th Floor<br> | |||
Portland, OR 97205<br> | |||
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Tel. 503-306-5240<br> | |||
Email: libreference@ohs.org<br> | |||
*[http://librarycatalog.ohs.org/O90000/OPAC/Index.aspx Research Library Catalog} | |||
*[https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/research-help/biographical-research.cfm '''Biographical Collections List'''] | |||
:*'''Biography Card File''' | |||
:::Local, state, and regional histories and published biographical resources in our collection at the time the index was completed; | |||
:::Birth, death, and marriage citations from roughly a dozen and a half western Oregon newspapers covering the latter half of the 19th and the first two decades of the 20th centuries; | |||
:::Our 350+ volume collection of scrapbooks created by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.); | |||
:::Indian War Pension Papers filed by veterans or by heirs of those who fought in the territorial Indian Wars (1847 –1879). | |||
:*'''Vertical File Index''' | |||
:::A topical access point to folders of newspaper clipping, magazine articles, flyer, brochures, ad pamphlets related to certain persons or families. :::Genealogy files will often include biographical sketches, obituaries, or family trees. | |||
:*'''Pioneer Card File''' | |||
:::Transcribed questionnaires issued to pioneer descendants at annual Oregon Pioneer Association meetings | |||
:::Notes taken by Judge Charles H. Carey, one‐time president of the Historical Society and author of several histories of the state; | |||
:::Materials donated to the Historical Society by the Lane County Pioneer Association. | |||
:*'''Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Card File''' | |||
:::An index, by surname, to a variety of genealogical works transcribed and published by the Oregon chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution, including cemetery records, court documents, and pioneer reminiscences. | |||
:*'''Donation Land Claims''' | |||
====Oregon-California Trails Association==== | ====Oregon-California Trails Association==== | ||
[http://www.octa-trails.org/ '''Oregon-California Trails Association'''] is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration to Oregon, among other places. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at [http://www.paper-trail.org/ A Guide to Overland Pioneer Names and Documents]. | [http://www.octa-trails.org/ '''Oregon-California Trails Association'''] is an educational organization that promotes the story of the westward migration to Oregon, among other places. Their site includes a personal name index to trail diaries, journals, reminiscences, autobiographies, newspaper articles, guidebooks and letters at [http://www.paper-trail.org/ A Guide to Overland Pioneer Names and Documents]. | ||