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When investigating your family history try wider sources and records such as divorce, medical, immigration adoptions, land title, school attendance, biography from local history books, wills and obituaries
Giving is receiving, and family history is a great opportunity to share. Sharing is great but most other family historians want to at least verify the source of the family history information that you’ve shared. Credit should be given when you receive data from someone and then pass it on. It’s only fair that there is an accolade for the sweat and effort that went in to collecting the valuable family history data that you are about to share with someone else.
With a little respect and sometime some pleading you can get family members to loan you family history artifacts like baby books, and wedding albums, divorce papers, funeral cards, awards, diplomas, high school yearbooks, employment information, military records and medical records. Diaries and journals can be an even richer source of family history It’s true that your ancestors really are in your attic.
You can query the Oregon State family history Archives for free for birth records from 1842 to 1903, birth evidences from 1845 to 1903 and marriages from 1906 to 1910 which can be searched by name, year, source type, and county.
