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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
Many local libraries and history societies have a family history section, files or resources dedicated to Family history and while many of these require membership it is a cost effective way of accessing multiple family history resources, without the cost mounting up.
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.
