Wasco County, Oregon
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My name is Martha and I am your host for "all things Wasco".
I do not live in Oregon, but have roots deep in her soil.
I am an experienced online researcher and will do my best to answer questions and perhaps help locate
that missing piece of your 'Ancestral Pie'
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Our Thanks to Constance for her dedication and dilligence for Wasco County.
Table of Contents
History ~ Biography ~ Maps ~ What's New ~ Queries and Lookups
Vital Records ~ Cemeteries ~ Funeral Records ~ Obituaries
Military ~ Native American's ~ Crime and Punishment ~ Odds and Ends
New Site "Oregon Outcroppings" - New Resources for Oregon Research [Off Site]
Wasco County Neighbors:
Hood River | Clackamas | Marion | Jefferson | Wheeler | Sherman
| Vital Records ~ Cemeteries ~ Funeral Records ~ Obituaries B ~ M ~ D's The 'obvious locations' for online vital record indexes and imaged documents will be included here as general links. The created indexes are from Family Serch I have access to the 'Library Edition' of My Heritage which has different info, Lookups available  Family Search: Births, Marriages, Deaths B - M - D's can be found in Archival Newspapers: Lookups Chronicling America is Free, so is the Historic Oregon Newspaper Collection and Google Archived Newspapers California Digital Newspapers This Site has a great collection of CA Newspapers, but many of them have articles from other States including Oregon. Using "Wasco County, Oregon" gives this result Family Search: "Collections" Oregon Neighboring States California ~ Idaho ~ Nevada ~ Washington [Scroll Down] Log into your FS Account, Access the Resourses Linked Above Early Marriage Records of Clackamas & Wasco Co's, OR Tualatin Chapter: DAR "Early Marriages" - FS Book Book A: Bride Index ~ Book A Family Search ~ Michigan Marriages This link is for folks born in Oregon and who married in Michigan: 1868 - 1925 [Available Info: Full Name, Place of Marriage, Residence, Place of Birth, Age, Occupation, Officiant, Witnesses] Sign into your FS Account, then use the above link. Family Search Vital Records: Film For Access: Sign into your FS Account, Search: Catalog, Enter Film # from the linked Chart into the 'Fiche/Film/ slot, Use Image Numbers to View Family Search: Historical Images: Vitals Marriage Certificates and Records: Use This Link Cemetery Records: Use This Link Deeds and other Legal Records; Use This Link There is a film that has miscellaneous genealogical Records: 7561472 Homestead Films: 8427943 ~ 8427950 ~ 8261359 Wasco County vital statistics: taken from the files of "The Weekly Mountaineer and Times-Mountaineer", 1865- 1891 [births, marriages, deaths] by Mrs. Wayne Gurley. FS Book: Read Online or Download Historical Images: Vital Records Wasco's Neighbors Hood River, Clackamas , Marion, Jefferson Sherman & Wheeler and lastly... FamilySearch has a nice collection of Databases specifically for Oregon Please use this link: If it does not work, log into your FS Account first Cemeteries and Burial Records <<<What's New>>> LDS Film #824258 - Item 3 Jap Hollow Cemetery Records Wasco County, Oregon [Located about 6 miles SE of the Dalles] Images 798 - 801 Note: It appears that the images for these records cannot be downloaded. If you wish to have copies, use your screen shot app. Family Search: Cemetery Books for Wasco County Wasco County, Oregon Cemetery Records Records from Cemeteries outside The Dalles Area Copied by: Daphne Hon Ramsay ~ Lottie LeGett Gurley "Early Cemetery and Burial records of the Dalles as published by: Lulu d Crandall - 1929 1966 Published by: The Genealogical forum of Portland, Oregon, Inc, 1979 Independent Order of Odd Fellows [I.O.O.F] Cemetery and Sexton Records: Vols I & II The Dalles, Wasco County, oregon Typed by the Genealogical Society Salt lake City, Utah: 1957 Cemetery Records Copied by members of the L. D. S. Church in the United States Typed by members and the Genealogical Society Salt Lake City, Utah [Most of these were done in the 1950's and 1960's] Volume 25 has one Cemetery for Wasco County, Oregon Accepted Free Masonic Cemetery, The Dalles Please Use This Link The File is a searchable pdf There was very little Cemetery data in the old Wasco County Files. I found one file for Dufur. Below is the information, the file is here IOOF [Star # Rebecca Community Cemetery] Located: A mile North of Dufur, Wasco, OR, West side of Hwy 197 The index was compiled from the OR Death Index, SSDI, Obits & Volunteer Contributions: It will not be updated, nor is it complete. "Oregon Burial Site Guide" Compiled by: Dean H Bryd Co-Compiled by Stanley R Clarke & Janice M Healy Binford & Mort Publishing, Portland Oregon, 2001 Permission to use on the ORGenWeb given by: Mr Stanley R Clarke. The Introduction and key can be found here. /Indexes Here Clackamas County Pages can be found here. [PDF's] Oregon Gravestone Project Cemeteries Listed in the USGenWeb Archives Cemeteries recorded by the Tualatin Chapter of the DAR: 1969 LDS Film # 8960118 [Follow directions for access on Family Search] USGW Archive Indexes. Billion Graves or Use Family Search Find A Grave: Born in Oregon, Died, San Luis Obispo [Obit Lookups Available] Historic Cemeteries in Oregon Coroner & Funeral Home Records [San Francisco, CA Bay Area] CA, San Francisco County Records, 1824 - 1997 [Coroner Records-FS] San Francisco, CA Area Funeral Home Records, 1850 - 1931 [Anc] Note, some images and abstracts may be found here. Lookups for Vital Records in Archival Newspapers Lookups: Obits & Misc Vitals Please contact me with particulars. Family Search and Archival Newspapers Sherman & Wasco County Index Here is a List of Oregon Newspapers on NewsBank Obituaries & Death Records Obituaries from the Albany Democrat Herald: 1999 - 2023 Please Use this Link for the Index. These Obits can be found on Heritage Hub which is available through local Public Libraries September 2024 Note: I will not be creating any more Obit Indexes: I have had no queries for them for a couple of years. But, that said, I will still do lookups on Heritage Hub Contact: Martha Wasco County, Oregon - Obituaries Updated: Heritage Hub: 1988 - 31 December 2023 The searchable pdf index can be found here. Contact Martha for a copy [image] of the Obit or Article Oregon Historical Archives Oregon Historical Newspapers / Library "How To" Find OR Vital Records OR Health Authority" [Vital Records] "The Espy File" Oregon State Hospital: Unclaimed Cremains US Presbyterian Church Records: 1701- 1970 and... Here is a series of booklets published in Wyoming: 1912 > 2006 in the FS Catalog: "Tidbits from the Big Piney Examiner of Sublette Co., WY" Compiler: Anna Lee Woffinden Catagories: Engagements, Marriages, Deaths, News Articles & Obituaries There are indexs at the end of each Booklet Download the booklets from FS. More from Family Search Catalog "Pahrump, Nevada Genealogical Society Obits 1970-2009: Published: 2010" "Digital copies of obituaries for people with some connection to Pahrump, Nevada. Individuals may have lived and or died in many different states." Please Use this Link There are indexes and each book is searchable or available to download. |
"The Fine Print"
State Coordinator: Bob Jenkins
Assistant State Coordinator: Martha A Crosley Graham
Wasco County Coordinator: Martha A Crosley Graham
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