[or-roots] Updates to Coos County, Oregon

[Robyn Greenlund]

Greetings all!


I've been busy trying to get some of the wealth of information I've been collecting processed and put into a usable format for people to find while online. My motivation has been the steady growth in popularity of the Genealogytrails websites. I started tracking statistics on it about a year and  half ago, and at the time, the average visits to the site per day were 2-3 visits, of about a minute average length. When I send out an update like this one, it causes a big spike in the statistics, but then it settles down to "normal" again. But normal is now about 14 people day, with an average time on the site of 15 minutes!

Here's the list of what's been put online for December and January - my thanks too the people who have provided me with material to use for these updates (you know who you are!) and I still have a lot more to turn into web pages, so watch for more updates soon. I hope you find something for each of your families from Coos county!

1) New 1855 Jury List provided by Andie Jensen. Was your pioneer family here before the 1860 census? 

2) New 1949 Myrtle Point Phone book page, Surnames A-G 

3) Newspaper clipping on the wreck of the Beda in 1886

4) Updated the Coos county Mason/Masonic Lodge members. Added 23 additional Masons to Masonic Lodge members in Coos County, making a list of over 240 known Masons

5) New Coroner's Inquests page, with 315 deaths in Coos county investigated by the Coos County
Coroner (Notes are being researched and shared courtesy of Andie
Jensen).

6) Updated the Cemetery listing page to show all sources for cemetery listings, number of interments, and maps to cemeteries where known. 

7) Added five more biographies to the Pioneer History of Coos and Curry County page from 1898 

8) Added 6 new members to the American Legion webpage 

9) Births, Deaths, Marriages and Illnesses [Over 100 new obituaries, 10 new birth announcements, 40 illness mentions, 60 marriages] 

10) Added another page to the 1893 Tax Assessment Index, surnames beginning with 'HA'

11) Added two new schools to schoolslist, Twin Oaks and Riverton, with photographs and additional information (as available) 

12) Added new IOOF page with 18 known members, both men and women 

13) Created new community page for Bullards, Bandon area with 50 names mentioned 

14) Marriage Record Summary created for 160 Coos county marriages - featuring the names, dates, minister, place of marriage and witnesses 

 Robyn
rgreenlund61 at yahoo.com

Interested in Oregon History? Check out my webpages at
coquillevalley.org or genealogytrails.com (Coos & Curry Counties)


      
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