Wasco County
Lookups & Kind Souls
Wasco County
Lookups & Kind Souls
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In the spirit of sharing and helping fellow family historians, the Kind Souls named below offer you their assistance. They have to abide by copyright laws and their time is limited, of course, so it will be appreciated if you follow a few simple rules. These are pretty typical rules at any lookup site: 1) Mind your manners, even if there is a delay in answering your request. Most anything can happen, from family emergencies to malfunctioning email service, so please keep that in mind. We're just regular people, with regular lives. Stuff happens. 2) Follow the 10-minute rule: Please limit your requests to a number and type that could probably be handled in 10 minutes or less if requesting a lookup from a book or CD. Just follow the 10-minute rule and everyone will stay happy. If you have more requests than that, tell the volunteer and let him/her lay their own ground rules about frequency of submissions -- or perhaps he/she will have enough spare time at the moment to okay having you send another request at that time. 3) The KISS Principle (Keep It Simple, Sweetie): Due to copyright restrictions, please avoid asking for large sections of data or "all Smiths" types of requests. If there's a ton of data about your ancestor in any particular book, the lookup volunteer can help you try to locate your own copy of that publication. 4) KSEs (Kind Soul Expenses): If requesting a cemetery photo or other lookup that requires out of pocket expense on the part of the Kind Soul, please make it clear at the time of your request that you expect to pay those costs. That will make for much less chance of there being a misunderstanding. Volunteers here are not allowed to accept any money over the amount of their expenses, but you should make it easy for them to receive reimbursement of any actual expenses. 5) Be specific. If you want to know who is buried in the next 5 plots on either side, for example, please make that clear when you make the request for information. 6) Payback: All we ask in return for these favors is that you pass the kindness along to someone who will be needing help where you live or from your printed resources. We're all doing this because others have helped us in similar ways. The genealogy community has more Kind Souls in it than any other group of people, and we'd like to see it stay that way. :-) |
Be sure to also check the links at the end
of this list,
to find some other sites offering lookups
that you might want to try!
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| "Wasco County Marriages 1854-1900" by Anita Drake (access to Index only -- not to original records) |
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| "Columbia River Gorge: Natural Treasure on the Old Oregon Trail" by Cheri Dohnal (2003) Purchase Book |
Listing Online |
| "Wasco County Marriages 1854-1900"
by
Anita Drake
"Wasco County Marriage 1900-1914 (access to Index only -- not to original records) |
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| "A Brief History of the Old Wasco County, Oregeon Pioneer Association." William Howard McNeal. Biographies of more than 400 Centennial Families of Wasco County Based on the census of 1860, 1870, and 1880 and membership applications from which most of the associations members descend from or are related to. |
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| "The History of Wasco County History
Book." Bruce Harris, c. 1983. History of the County and several biographies
of families.
"History of WASCO Lodge No 15 AF&AM." William H. McNeal. c. 1968-69 History of The Dalles Masonic Orders: Chapter No. 6 Royal Arch Masons, Columbia Commandery No. 13 Knights Templer, etc. Also several personal biographies. The original committee was appointed in 1885 to prepare the included histories which include records of many of the earliest settlers of the Fort Dalles area and their participation in the area's development. (CH) "THE STEELHEAD" partial 1915. complete 1916. 1918, & 1939. Yearbooks of THE DALLES HIGH SCHOOL. Typical High School Year Book, but can send .jpegs of pictures contained in the above 4 yearbooks, and any other information contained. Will search names if you provide year attended, etc. (CH) "AL KADER TEMPLE - 1979 (YEARBOOK)" The Oregon Shriners annual publication of members and their activities, which includes individual pictures of the members, group pictures of the seperate regional clubs and Shrine Units. Can send JPegs of groups or individual photos. (CH) "Grand Lodge of Oregon 1846-1951 Volume 1 & 2." Wilkinson, John C., Grand Historian. This includes in chronilogical order the events and actiivities of the individual chapters and the Grand Lodge during the time period mentioned. Can send JPegs of texts. (CH) |
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| "Antelope, The saga of a Western Town"
by Art Campbell. The book was published (by Maverick, Bend, Oregon)
and copyrighted (by Art Campbell) in 1990. I could let you know if
your person is listed in the index. (ACV)
"East of the Cascades" by Phil F. Brogan (ACV) |
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| "Upper Mill Creek Community, An Illustrated History" written by Barbara Bailey and Mary Howell. My husband descends from Isaac C. and Margaret E. Matney who settled in Upper Mill Creek back in the 1890's. It only has about 38 pages with some pictures. Would be happy to do look-ups. (SM) |
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| "WHO ARE YOU & WHO AM I" By Daniel
Hoptowit OLNEY, published Nov. 1991. The more recent families listed are
from the Yakama Indian Reservation area, in Washington State. Has a fairly
complete listing of many families wed into the Olney family. Traces
lineage from 1635 to later 1900's, from England to Oregon & Washington
State, (T)
"A CHRONICLE OF MY FAMILY" By Lucile R. OLNEY, the beginning of this book has "A Genealogy Of The Descendants Of Thomas Olney, by James H. Olney, published 1889. Covers 1066 to 1985. (T) "EARLY RHODE ISLAND" 'A Social History of the People', by William B. Weeden, A. M. published 1910. This book gives a detailed description of the making of Providence, R.I., & the controversy that arose from Massachusetts all the way to King Charles II. Lists the thirteen families who were proprietors of Providence, RI, plus several other families: Roger WILLIAMS, William HARRIS, John SMITH (MILLER), Joshua VERIN, Thomas ANGELL, Francis WICKES, Thomas OLNEY, Thomas HARRIS (brother of William), Benedict ARNOLD, Richard SCOTT, Chad BROWN, William WICKENDEN, John FIELD (T) |
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| "AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF CENTRAL OREGON
EMBRACING WASCO, SHERMAN, GILLIAM, WHEELER, CROOK AND LAKE COUNTIES, STATE
OF OREGON," Western Historical
Publishing company, Spokane, WA 1905
Has an indexed biographical section on Wasco Co. with some portraits, also indexed. |
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| CEMETERY RECORDS, county-wide: all cemeteries except those already online -- with one temporary exception being The Dalles IOOF Cemetery, which we don't yet have records on. Eventually, all cemeteries will be online. Please check the records that are already posted online before requesting a lookup. |
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| DONATION LAND CLAIMS (DLCs) -- all books. A very valuable resource, the DLCs are not limited to information about the original land claims allotted to early settlers, but also give details about the claimant's place of birth and often name family members or other valuable information. Since women were also granted land during this period, this is often the only resource available that can confirm the existence or the marriage of a pioneer woman. |
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| SCHOOL YEAR BOOKS, 1939-1980 (most years) |
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| NEWSPAPERS of southern Wasco Co.
-- Tygh Valley Bee and Maupin Times. Please review the dates available
before asking for a lookup:
The Bee: 4/19/1906-5/116/1907
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Other books, not owned by any of us (yet) but highly recommended by Listmembers:
Some of these and other published items such
as indexes are available through
Columbia
Gorge Genealogy Society
(this link provides you with an area for
CGGS' pricelist and order info)
Told by the Pioneers -- Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1937-38
We'll All Go Home in the Spring, by Robert A. Bennett
A Small World of our Own, by Robert A. Bennett
Chaff In The Wind, Gleanings of the
Maupin Community, by The Friends of
the Maupin Library, printed by Master Printers
NW, Pendleton, OR,1986.
Available
for purchase through Southern Wasco Co. Library
"Picturesque" Frontier: The Army's Fort Dalles, by Priscilla Knuth.
Columbia River Gorge History, Vol. 1,
by Jim Attwell, Tahlkie Books,
P.O. Box 355, Skamania, WA. 98648., 1974
Columbia River Gorge History, Vol. 2,
by Jim Attwell, Tahlkier Books,
Box 355, Skamania, WA. 98648, 1975
Early History of Klickitat County,
by Jim Attwell, Tahlkie Books , 34
Landing Road, Skamania, WA. 98648, 1977
Governmental History of Wasco County Oregon, by John Lundell, B.S., 1970
Banner Tales of Bench and Basin, An
Anthology Published By Wasco County
Historical Society, 1996
A Field Guide to Historic The Dalles,
by Keith F. May,
published by Drigh Sighed Publications,
Pendleton, OR.
Shaniko From Wool Capital to Ghost Town,
by Helen Guyton Rees, Binford &
Mort Publishing, Portland, OR., 97209 1982,
1990
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LOOKUPS YOU CAN FIND ONLINE A Partial List of the Excellent Lookup & Self-Access Sites Online (don't forget to check all GenWeb/Rootsweb county sites, too!) =================================== ONLINE SEARCHABLE DATABASES:
all topics (tons of great history books in there!) |
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