[or-roots] 1898 obit request RVGS

[Anne Billeter]

Actually, the Rogue Valley Genealogical Society is in Phoenix, in 
Jackson County, rather than Talent.
Yes, their card file indexes many of the Jackson County cemeteries.  
They're scrapbooks of obits go back to approximately 1952.

Anne Billeter

CARROLLOUC at aol.com wrote:

>The Rogue Valley Genealogical Society in Talent, Jackson Co., Oregon also has 
>scrapbooks full of obituaries. They also have a card file and booklets of 
>deaths and cemetery records.
>
>Carroll Cooper Summers
>We found that to be true -- we got a copy of my husband's grandfather's 
>obituary from a scrapbook at the Portland Genealogical Society.
>
>Sue
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>From: Diane 
>To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
>Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:02 AM
>Subject: Re: [or-roots] 1898 obit request
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>Often local genealogical society's and/or historical society's have inherited 
>scrapbooks from people who have kept obit's.  Here in Lake County, Oregon we 
>had the DAR Schminck Museum.  The Schminck's kept notebooks of marriages and 
>obit's.  Much to the delight of folks who are ancestor searching.
>
>Diane
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