[or-roots] Lincoln County Courthouse / historical society

[Robert L Casebeer]

To Leslie Chapman and others.  Regarding public archives.
Jackson county's archivist retired, and the present county commissioners,
gave the care of the public records to a private company, as I understand,
and all access to the records either in person or on line are forbidden.
Great political act...probably in violation of the public information act.
Bob Casebeer, Talent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:16 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Lincoln County Courthouse / historical society


> Twyla and all;
>
> Both courthouse and Historical society holdings are going to be subject to
> the vagaries of current and past "people in Charge" Ferinstance our
current
> Douglas Co. Clerk is very "help the public/save those records" oriented,
and
> is busting her budget to be sure that all county records are going to be
> preserved in SOME fashion. The primary thrust is to record images of "old"
> stuff which space and lack of relevance dictate must be disposed of in
their
> original form. They are also very open about providing access to any
records
> they legally can.
>
> But I don't know about Lincoln county, I have had some professional
dealings
> with the Lincoln County folk and it hasn't ALL been a "warm fuzzy"
> experience. That said, the county clerk herself was very cordial and
> helpful.
>
> As to Historical society info, there again you are dealing with the
vagaries
> of "people in charge"; by and large I would think if an individual came to
a
> historical society and said I have this stack of birth records for
Kalamazoo
> for 1750 to 1800 from the Captist Church, I would bet most societies would
> accept them even if they had a general policy that they were only
concerned
> with "their area". The other thing you have to consider is that in the
> larger sense most any historical society in any county in western Oregon
can
> justify whatever they want to keep because of the number of changes in
> county boundaries and the fact that most of western Oregon at one time was
> in Benton County.
>
> That being said someone will probably chime in to inform us that the
Lincoln
> County Society doesn't consider Yachats as part of their Ken or some such.
>
> Les c
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:Twyla Poppleton
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 9:21 AM
>
>
> Hello;
> Am I to understand that there is a great deal of information about persons
> OTHER THAN THOSE that are known to have lived in Lincoln County?
.........
> or specific TO those inhabitants OF Lincoln County?  (Oops, if that is a
> stupid question ... :-)  Thanks, Twyla
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Don't know what you wish to find out, but the Lincoln County Historical
> Society has quite a bit of material.
>
> They are at: 545 S.W. 9th St., Newport 97365, tel. 541-265-7509
>
> I found several monographs and notes, as well as publications, relating
> to early years and my family.
>
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