[or-roots] New resource for Coos County researchers

[Trisha Neal]

Great looking web site!  Thank you for doing this!
 
Trish 
Coos Bay

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From: or-roots-admin at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 8:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [or-roots] New resource for Coos County researchers


Robyn
Tried to access the website and it could not be found, it may not be up yet.
Glen
 
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Glen A. Jones
 

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From: Robyn Greenlund <rgreenlund61 at yahoo.com> 
The website www.coquillevalley.org is now up and operational. 

This project is tied directly to the new Coquille Valley Historical Museum
located in Coquille. All my research into my home in Myrtle Point has
resulted in my getting a lot more involved in helping to automate the
records and information from the local area. The new Historical Society and
museum are incredibly receptive to help and suggestions, and are receiving a
considerable number of artifacts and photographs from the local area (Take a
look at the Museum lin to see what all they have in the museum already).

One of the focal points of the website will be to use the Internet to help
identify some of the hundreds of photographs they have that were done by a
local photographer between abt 1880 and the turn of the century. This name
was Charles Wilkins.

The website is by no means complete (are they ever????) but you can use the
What's New links to keep track of what I've completed. Some of pro jects
closest to going online are a second timeline for Myrtle Point based on the
book Myrtle Point Beginnings (the first went active last week); information
on the Smith Wood Products factory in Coquille and help in identifing some
170 employees of the mill in abt 1933; and transcribing biographies from
Orvil Dodge's book, Pioneer History of Coos and Curry County for the US
Biography project. And to continue another thread...The existing online
index to Orvil's book is wonderful, but only contains about half the names
found in the biography section of the book. There is also an index that was
done some time ago that indexes both the narrative and biographical sections
of the book - it's a fantastic resource.

For the computer savvy...Please only bookmark coquillevalley.org a s I will
keep the domain but will be moving to a new host soon. The host I started
with didn't mention a couple critical factors - like there are pop-ups
associated with using their site and that I can't access my domain from
their servers. So everything is mapped and boomarks don't work.

Regards-
Robyn




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