Oregon Topics: Genealogy - Government Resources

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State Resources

Oregon State Archives

Oregon Historical County Records Guide (includes maps, county and office histories, scenic images, and comprehensive descriptive inventories of selected records for all Oregon counties)
Search Oregon Historical Records Index (includes over 570,000 entries)
Provisional and Territorial Government Records Guide (includes detailed government histories and records descriptions covering 1843 to 1859)
Topical research aids (includes lists, descriptions, and referrals on several types of records useful to genealogists)

Adoption Records
Census RecordsLand Records
Military Records
Naturalization Records
Probate Records
Vital Records

Contact us (includes e-mail genealogy research services)
OR-ROOTS Listserv (includes instructions on how to subscribe to this list for discussion of research and writing about Oregon genealogy and family history)

Oregon State Library

Willamette Valley Genealogical Society (offers research in genealogical library holdings)
Oregon State Library Catalog

Oregon Center for Health Statistics (includes information about birth, death, marriage, and divorce records)

University of Oregon Library

Newspapers and genealogical resources on microform
History resources on microform

Federal Resources

National Archives and Records Administration (includes extensive searchable databases)

The Genealogy Page
Military service and pension records
Pacific Alaska Regional Archives (Seattle, Washington)

Search federal land patents (includes U.S. Bureau of Land Management General Land Office records)

Search Geographic Names Information System (U.S. Geological Survey)

Library of Congress Local History & Genealogy Reading Room

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