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Updates

April 26, 2012

1940 Index: Florence (Pct. 59), Leaburg, Florence (Enum. Pct. 60, page 2)

April 25, 2012

1940 Index: Brumbaugh, Leaburg (pages 1-6)

April 24, 2012

1940 Index: Goldson, Blanton (pages 1- 5), Brumbaugh (pages 1-4)

April 23, 2012

1940 Index: Camp Creek, Cloverdale, Goldson (pages 1-3)

April 20, 2012

1940 Index: Blachly (pages 3 - 8), Camp Creek (pages 1-2), Minerva, Bethel, Fall Creek, Wendling (pages 2-3)

April 18, 2012

1940 Index: Canary, Bethel (pages 11 - 15), Blachly (pages 1- 2), Eugene (page 1), Fall Creek (pages 1-2)

April 17, 2012

1940 Index: Canary (page 1), Coyote, Florence (Enum. Dist. 59 pages 1 - 7), Florence (Enum. Dist. 60 page 1).

April 16, 2012

1940 Index: Glentena, Wolf Creek, Bethel (pages 4-10), Coyote (page 1)

April 13, 2012

1940 Index: Glenada, Cushman, Glentena (pages 1-3)

April 12, 2012

1940 Index: Glenada (pages 1 - 2), Wolf Creek (page 1), Armitage, Zumwalt.

April 11, 2012

1940 Index: Armitage Pct. (pages 10 - 14), Bailey, Bethel (pages 1 - 3) Zumwalt (pages 1-6)

April 10, 2012

1940 Index: Armitage Pct. (pages 8-9), Bailey Pct. (pages 1 - 11)

April 9, 2012

1940 Index: Armitage Pct. (pages 5 - 7), South Creswell Pct. (Enum. Dist. 106 + 107)

April 3-8, 2012

1940 Index: Five Rivers, Florence Enumeration Dist. 61, Glenada CCC & Heceta Head Lighthouse, Wendling (page 1), Mabel, Hermann, Heceta, Alvadore, Armitage (pages 1 - 4) and Blue River.

April 2, 2012

1940 Census are now available to the public. Pages will be transcribed, indexed and posted.

March 31, 2012

Cemeteries are being cross-indexed with existing obituaries. Newspaper items (including births, deaths, marriage) from March - April 1890 from the Eugene Guard has been included.

March 4, 2012

Renfrew Grave has been added to the cemetery, along with his headstone and obituary. Two new towns have been added to the towns list... Lemati & Amos. Robert & Marietta contributed 2 more obituaries for the Stafford family. Several more advertised letters have been added to the list and the B-M-D from the Daily Guard from Jan. - Feb. 1899.

February 29, 2012

The B-M-D (births deaths marriages) from the Bohemia Nugget from April. - Dec. 1899. New military news article from 1917 & 1928 added. Scharen family data has been added; special thanks to Robert and Marietta Rankin. Check obits, family resources & the 1933 marriages.

February 25, 2012

The B-M-D (births deaths marriages) from the Bohemia Nugget from Jan. - Mar. 1899. Rinehart family information contributed by Robert & Marietta Rankin.

February 10, 2012

Updated list of towns and communities. All biographies and biographical brevities from Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon have been added. New maps of Bohemia Mining District and Nesmith County. New section for local history and links to external Lane County web sites.

February 3, 2012

Towns of Junction City, Cottage Grove, Eugene & Lane have been incorporated from The Oregonian's Handbook of the Pacific Northwest. Many, many, many new obituaries have also been added.

December 24, 2011
Obituaries now have the new look and feel too. The obituary home page is now indexed for the first two letters of the surname. Also added... March 2002 obituaries from the local Eugene newspaper as well as all notices from 1878 (birth, death & marriages) from the local Eugene papers.

December 15, 2011

Most county pages have new look and feel. Also with this update is inclusion of a birth index, additional marriages in the marriage index, including early county marriages (1852 - 1869). The newspaper section has been rearranged by years and subject with more data added as well. Though obituaries don't have this new (yet), they have updated with many new entries. A brief history behind the creation of the University of Oregon is now under schools.

November 11, 2011

Added a shared research page. This will be a shared forum of other's personal research notes. You have items that you would like to share and help others in their research, they'll be posted here.

November 8, 2011

Clean up work on the obituaries and cemeteries to get the general file sizes down. I know, admin. stuff, boring... So I also added several new obituaries.

October 13, 2011

More obituaries have been added. Most are from the defunct Springfield News.

September 21, 2011

A complete list of burials (not final) of the Creswell Cemetery is now on line. Obituaries and images will be filtering in.

The Cloverdale (Lower) Cemetery is now up. It does include the headstone images and some obituaries. More obituaries will be added and linked in the very near future.

More obituaries have been added. Browse or use the search tool to find your missing family.

July 25, 2011

Creswell Cemetery added burials H thru I. Links to related obits not

connected quite yet, but a search should find them.
Additional listings added to A - G.

July 4, 2011

Wow, what hasn't been added? New additions for newspapers, obituaries, marriages, births and added a new section, Post Offices.

June 27, 2011

Additional obituaries have been added. Thanks to several contributors on providing this new material. Also a few more newspaper clippings or stories have been added.

May 4, 2011

Under Faces & Places, a new catagory has been added, photographs. These are various images taken from around Lane County.

March 18, 2011

A new subject has been added, schools! In the future... might try adding yearbooks and reunions. To start this new area, graduation lists are being added. The graduation lists include both high school and 8th grade graduations.

February 8, 2011

Cemetery index has been completed on the Valley View Cemetery and the Stafford Pioneer Cemetery with links to found obituaries. The following cemeteries are now complete with available obituaries:
Stephens Cemetery (Headstones coming)
Valley View Cemetery (Headstones coming)
Stafford Pioneer Cemetery
Luper Cemetery (With headstones !!)
Lower Mabel Cemetery (With headstones !!)

Cemeteries with indexing started:

West Lawn Memorial Park
Upper Mabel Cemetery (Headstones coming)

January 25, 2011

Additional obituaries have been added.

Cemetery index has been started for West Lawn Cemetery & Valley View.

Cemetery index has been completed for the Stephens Cemetery and links to the found obituaries have been added.

Coming soon.... local stories from 1890 newspapers !!!

September 17, 2010

Updated the towns page. Added an article on the former community of Wendling.
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More obituaries have been added. All of Feb. 1950 and Jan. 2002 are now available. Also added: March 1950, May 2000 & Feb. 2002 (From the Register-Guard)
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Cemeteries have updated, adding links to cemetery listings and images. Lower Mabel Cemetery complete, Upper Mable, Stevens (Stephens), Luper cemeteries started.
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Marriage page has been revamp. Marriage license application and divorce petitions have been added. Addition marriages have also been added.
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January 1900 birth, deaths, marriage license applicaitons and divorce petitions have all been added from the Eugene Daily Guard.

September 3, 2010

So many dead people.... the obituaries keep growing. Now have complete obituaries for January 1950, November 2001 added. Feb. 1950 and Jan. 2002 started.
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1900 census records are starting to populate. Complete transcription for Mabel Pct., and McKenzie Bridge Pct.
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Additional birth records have been added, covering parts of Jan. 1950 and Feb. 1910.

August 6, 2010

Many more obituaries have been added. The additional information includes all obituaries/death notices from the Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) for months the of July 1967, January 1979, February 1979, December 2001.

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The marriage records were changed. It is now separated into 2 areas, index and details. The index will list just the basic marriage information and the details will do just that, go into greater details.

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Military records now include casualties from WWI, WWII and the Korean War native to Lane County.

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Several more biographies have been added. These come from History of Oregon: Volume II (1922).

July 10, 2010

Additional obituaries have been added to database. Also, more local news, military news in the papers and birth announcements have been added. A few more biographies have also been added.

June 24, 2010:

Few marriages and many obituaries added. Newspaper section has been added to military index.

June 10, 2010:

County adopted by Jim Dezotell

January 20, 2010:

Thanks to Robyn Greenlund we have an obituary for Algernon Currie

September 5, 2009:

Thanks to Kathie Marynik we have obituaries for Paul Thun & Lewis Webb

Thanks to Robyn Greenlund we have an obituary for Voltaire Gurney

November 25, 2008:

Thanks to Karen Hammer we have a death notice for Emma Lyon

September 29, 2007:

1 obituary thanks to Marla Snow
Miscellaneous newspaper articles
5 death notices
3 marriage notices

March 1, 2007:

1 new biography

February 28, 2007:

1 new biography

January 3, 2007:

New page for Eugene

December 23, 2006:

One new biography

October 25, 2006:

Cemetery page

September 26, 2006:

New Autograph book that involves people
from Canary and Westport

August 7, 2006:

A picture of the Catholic Church of Eugene
On the back of the post card is a message from Agnes to Rozina Hamms

July 31, 2006:

Christie Shellito has donated 1 birth certificate for this county!