[or-roots] RE: Sutro Library

[Leslie Chapman]

Okay Bea;

Sounds like you better wave off on trying to find anything for me, guess I
will have to get ahold of a roll of that newspaper, but if I can't find any
more info than the item on Aunt Gert, it probably isn't worth the effort.

Genealogical material in Oregon donation land claims
Portland, Or.?: The Forum?, 1957-, 809 pgs.

page 1-27

No. 660 MILLER, John, Sr., Linn Co; b 1792, Carter (Carteret before 1796).
Tenn, Tenn; Arr. Ore 27 Aug 1851; SC 20 Nov 1851; m Sarah Sept 1812, Tenn.
She d 27 July 1853. Aff: Wair Long, James M. Coon, Nicholas Miller.

Okay two things here tell me this Nicholas of yours is related to Aunt
Hazel, first he is born in Carter County, Tenn which in itself isn't proof
positive, but having a Son-in-law of George Miller, Aunt Hazel's grandpa, on
the affadavit makes me pretty confident he is.

Mimi; do you know for sure? I am talking about the four brothers, John,
Isaac, George and Abraham Miller who left Tenn for Indiana and then moved on
to Illinios for ten years before coming to Oregon, none of the stuff I
posted last night nor what I have found [darn little] on Heritage Quest
makes that clear.

I am also a little vague on which of the 20 or 30 of them that I suspect are
related that I find in the Census belong to which generation.

At least the DLC book is giving me some fairly coherent info on each couple,
though no maiden names, that would have been a nice touch.

I'll send you a genealogy report as soon as I can put the line together a
little better, I thought somewhere I had their father and mother's names,
but I think I was confused by the generations.

Les C


-----Original Message-----
From: Beatrice C Emerson [mailto:beaemerson at juno.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 4:29 PM
To: reedsportchapmans at verizon.net
Subject: Sutro Library


Hi Les,

Your Hansen and Miller info has been printed and will go up to
Sutro with me on Apr. 13th.

I don't have much hope for the Hansen's though.  Sutro does
not have much on California.  It is one of the numerous California
State Libraries, and the California State Library in Sacramento
is the main repository for the records of California.  Sutro branches
out on all the other states with a little on England. Sutro does
have city directories, and microfilms of the San Francisco
Bulletin (the Call Bulletin).  My great grandparents were married there
in 1895.  The Earthquake destroyed all vital records, so I found
their marriage date in the Bulletin.That's a long search though-
(not indexed), but if you were pretty sure of the date I could
check that out.

What I had planned to do was to concentrate on Marion County,
Oregon - the Caseys and the Millers.  You and Pat have given
me a great start on that!  I'll be there from 10 to 4, with an
orientation talk thrown in - I would like to know more about
your Millers though. Is the Miller chronology which you cited
on or-roots your Millers?  I need to map those out before Sutro
so I can differentiate between yours and mine.

My Nicholas Miller was born in Ireland abt March 1850.  He
married Catherine Casey, b 1855 in Oregon - probably Marion
County.His land most likely came from James Casey - probably as
a dowry for Catherine.  It looks like the top half of James' land
donation claim.

I will definitely be on the lookout for your Millers though - I just
want to have them mapped out before I go!  If you like, you
could send me a gedcom file or a descendency list.  That would
help!

That's all for now, Les.  Take care!....no, it isn't all...Read on!

I just found the year of the marriage of Peter C. Petersen and
Johanne Hansen.  Go to http://feefhs.org/fdb2/6995-467.html
It is the San Francisco Call Newspaper Vital Records for
1869-1895. It also shows the listing for when the marriage
license was obtained.  A fellow by the name of Jim Faulkenbury
codes these names - only the year is listed (1895)- and he goes to the
California State Library, prints out the listing - for $10 or $15,
and mails it out to you.  To find it without the code I might
have to go through 365 issues - and we are only allowed a
short amount of time on the readers.  I could try though!

Now that is for all.  Take care still!

Bea