[or-roots] genealogical gold mine

[CKlooster at aol.com]

You're right, Les...these books are extremely helpful, especially for  people 
just starting to look at their family history.  The entries not only  provide 
straight data, but there are also clues in terms of relationships  
(sometimes) in the names of those individuals who were listed as  witnesses.  I bought 
the set quite a few years ago from the Portland  Genealogical Forum...back in 
the day before "online".  Publications such as  these were crucial to research 
prior to the Internet...and bless the people who  painstakingly extracted this 
data by hand...and typed it all out for us.   The books were not hugely 
expensive at the time I bought them, and considering  all the effort that went into 
them, I feel strongly that royalties should accrue  to people who produced 
them.  I haven't looked recently, but the  Genealogical Forum used to hae quite 
a number of equally helpful publications,  inlcuding cemetery, marriage, 
birth, and death records from selected  areas.  Might still be worth checking that 
out!
 
Carla
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