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tions. You may find a great-grand ing the Indian wars and all phases of
mother living with your grandparents’ the State National Guard. They lead
vffrigest brother or sister. Thus liv directly to veterans pension records
ing with S. L. Wass, Captain of the in the N atipnalArchi-^, Washington,
Lighthouse Station on Cape Foul- D. C., which often reveal a great many
weather in' | B M B not only his fam details of the family migration.
ily, but a grandfather'Yinal Dyer, born
in Maine. Similarly livM B with the ■ M ir you have pushed back the his-
your family in Oregon, you are
C^ E g e Stevens family, hotel keeper
H g tfy to-trace their history in the east,
at Newport, was a grandmother, E. or in- the country from, which they
Pygall, gTO in Wales. Families in came- Your search in records there
those days helpg w M tlwhen there was will be s i m » , except B r the fact
anyone to raise, or wheilfahyone was
iw le B BPjy1
1 be fu® r, and
H K ftg g ie , and it is those individuals B thatS
b j^ ^ ^ Q c h y and nonexistent. Armed
who may
key to your prob- with clues as to the origin of your fam
ily from: census records, death certifi-
| H | importance* of younger relatives K
newspaper obituary and H H H
caff be illustrated through many ex- an’s record, you may know exaW B
amples. In one instance, the young where to go. Sometimes, however,
est gu gh t^ H K ^ large family died blank walls develop and it may be nec-
and left
youngest daughter the Bggry/to do a little deducting to find
EE|||py B|H|3The mother had acquired your ancestors. For example, a survey
it on the death of her parent’s? for of pension files of your surname of
whom she had cared in their final the civil war- might produce a known
illness. H many cases important mi- ancestor, aj brother, or a cousin unless
grations of families to I Oregon are yon have a name that is too common.
known to have centered around groups If you have the search narrowed down
of sisters and their husbands, rather t° a state, check, in that estate on the
than around brothers. In fact the nearest census to the date when the
brothers stayed behind, or migrated family migrated H Oregon? If you
with in-laws to other parts of the have the search narrowed down to a
frontier west. Once in Oregon, rela county, then you should employ a.-good
tives lived near each other at first, genealogist to dig into all types of rec
and broke up into groups only as fam ords, birth, m arriage.^»th. property,
ily divergences developed. The census tax, and court files, everything that
therefore be important to.;‘.you,inI will “{help. If the genealogist is beyond
that it was recorded house by house as your pocketbook, or if .you like to dp
the census taker made his rounds, and the jo b ;® rse lf, you may find that a
sisters appear as neighbors.
to /theBounty^would not only be
Military B i r ds- are often helpful successful, but a firsiy?class adventure.
in tracing migrations. Our veterans of
Before y°u traveí, be well prepared
World War I received alSail j M C . and check all possible printed sources,
and could apply for loans.,=The appli- using the resources of your State Li-
cation flies in the State Archived and brary which has begun to gather the
tbe paid loan files include information
genealogical Collection in .'the
as to residem^lHcupation- nearljgVof Northwgllj You might even find a
kiri^age, place of birth and enlistment. Hinted family genealogy that will pave
M times there will even be proof of the way back to the first immigrant
birth on file because the veteran had to this country, and even into remote
moved. Not only are their official bon origins in Europe. No matter what one
us records in the Archives, but there book will do for you, you may well
are
^ es
the State Historian, want to trace the history of every
of the Defense Council including clip branch of your family, and you will
pings relating to the men who served find that the task multiplies in H in
in the World War I, H type, of data terest and the complexity of its trails.
otherwise hard to find. In the custody A family that has been in America
of the Adjutant General of Oregon on ten generations, has 1,004 ancestors
the other hand are records relating to in the tenth generation, and it is the
military service from Oregon, includ composite picture of that ancestry