If you have a website listing your family
history, and think it would be useful to
other researchers, why not let the ORGenWeb
Project place a link to it here?
Contact Jan Bony if you're interested.
JONES FAMILY - MOVED TO OREGON UMATILLA COUNTY BETWEEN 1880 AND 1902
Family members are:
Charles P. Jones (oldest) adopted son.
William Jones, oldest son of John Jones and Olive Paterson Jones
Olive Paterson Jones, who died in Oregon, Umatilla county in 1902
Eliza Jones, who married a Greye and lived in Umatilla county.
John Andrew Jones, born in Wisconsin, and we know little of his life.
Joseph Huff (Adopted son), who also went to Oregon.
John Jones the father, who died in Wood county about 1872, is buried there. He was a lumber man,
born 1813 in New York state they say, and moved to Ohio, where three of the Jones children were born, William in 1840, Eliza in 1847, and another son Levi Lyman Jones, 1845 who stayed in Wisconsin, and lived and is buried in Juneau county, WI.
Olive Paterson Jones was born in 1816 in New York state they say, then lived in Ohio, moving to
Wisconsin in 1847, and Oregon later between 1880 and 1902 when she died there.
Any information would be helpful.
Carol McBain
John Daniel Boone Family Website
Looking for WELTER and ZEHNER who setteled
in the Columbia County area
Barb http://tribalpages.com/tribes/welter
I am looking for information on the Aune & Johnson family. My great-grandparents were Oliver Johnson and Jennie (Johanna) Aune Johnson who are buried in Bend. They had seven children, Harry J., Olga J., Ralph E. Arthur W. (my grandfather), Anna M., Agnes T. and Land A. They were immigrants from Norway. I would be interested in communicating with anyone who is related. My name is Karen Hinton and my Email address is kleerbrook@yahoo.com.
A study and research into the live of Lowell Ames ( 1799-1863) who left New York and traveled west to Oregon and was on of the first to settle in Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon is being conducted by the Ames Society. The research is also being conducted in the town of Sweet Home itself and if anyone has something to share, please contact President@AmesSociety.org The site is www.AmesSociety if you wish to join this Surname Society and work on any Ames/Eames in North America .
“The Switzler Family”
http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/s1810
the pass word is twobrothers
This is a work still in progress by 14 Switzler
families. We have documentation, Photo’s,
Maps, and ect. Some of the Switzler’s
that were on the Wagon Train in 1845 to OR
are among the names listed in these pages.
Still looking for more OR Switzler’s to help fill in the blanks.
Thanks
June Hines, web master
At its website, "Gilhousen Connections", http://gilhousenfamily.com, the Gilhousen Family Association
maintains an online genealogical database
of the Gilhousens of Wasco County, and related
families,
including many Oregon pioneers. Family history
articles, scanned images of documents and
photo galleries
are being added to other areas of the site.
Common Oregon surnames include: Belshee,
Clarke, Gilhousen,
Greenlee, Hall, Hastings, Jackson, Marvel,
Maxam, Small, and Stadelman, among others.
A collaborative
project, all are welcome to browse our resources,
and those with a family connection are invited
to joain and participate.
www.lampmanlanding.com
Research on Lampman primarily, with contents
of Henry Kellys book, "Imprints
on the Sands of Time" which details
all Lampmans in America, and from
Germany in the 1709 -1850 range. Includes
my personal Lampman genealogy, as
well as Busby, Knapp, Parcher, Vanderzee,
Lamb and other surnames as I get
them posted.
Please add me ot your list, I've been helping
many Lampman researchers for
almost 10 years now find their ancestors
FREE.
Greg Lampman
Kevin Gillespie has posted his family pages off his home
page at: http://kjgillespie.com
Contained under the above website:
http://kjgillespie.com/George.html
http://kjgillespie.com/Oregon.html
http://kjgillespie.com/Edward.html
Descendants of Bird WAGGONER, Caroline PICKETT and Nancy GRAY at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/pwag.html Ancestors and Descendants of James Albert MILLER (1851 IN-1938 OR) and Martha Ann PEARL (1858 OR-1897 OR) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/pmil.html Notes on the Descendants of William Robinett (1846 -1908 OR) and Mary PEARL (1850 MO-1884 OR) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/probn.html Ancestors and Descendants of Henry Harrison KIRK and Isabella Caroline PEARL http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/pkirk.html Descendants of Rev. Isaac Newton Van Winkle and Elizabeth Ann Pearl http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/pvw.html Some recent updates have been made to: Ancestors and Descendants of James PEARL (1807 OH-1897 OR) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/pearlja.html Ancestors and Descendants of Felix SENGER and wife, Hannah HESS http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/sengerf.html Clyde Senger Bellingham WA
Linda Nichol's Families: Marion and Clackamas
Counties
Huetter, Muessig, Peter, Thuemler, Reich
Abel Helman Family of Ashland, Jackson County
Hubbard Families of Marion and Polk Counties
Cecil Houk's Nineveh Ford Web Page
Nancy Todd's Tooley, Morgan, Dunn, and Brown families
Foster, Hague, Achilles and Swadley - Judy Hague [email only, no website]
The Daniel Pegg Wilson Family Home Page
Researching the Oregon Trail pioneer Daniel Pegg Wilson who lived in Washington, Oregon, Illinois
and Pennsylvania. Also researching the related
families: Robert Mill (or Mills) of Oregon, Ohio, Scotland and Job Bullard. The Daniel Pegg Wilson family migrated
from Illinois to Oregon by way of wagon train
in 1852.
Cindy Lee Siddall (Dunaven)'s Website
Dunaven, Casey, Lee, Brown, Cavin Lines - Dunavens were in Benton County
Katheryn L. (Barber) Saunders' Website
Hodgdon and Barber families of Tillamook County
James Blakely and Brownsville
With family photos, links and pictures of
Brownsville.
Also Cecil Houk's Oregon Trail Families
Debbi Reeves' Oregon Pioneer Milton and Christiana
Brown and Family Website.
Debbi also has her gedcom uploaded to Rootsweb's World Connect Project, the major surnames are:
BROWN, CONNOR, FIELD, SCHMITZ, KAY, DAVIS,
GREEN, OSGOOD.
Patty Stuart's Crook County Families
Texann Yarbrough Johnson's Oregon Pioneer Families
Kim Schildwachter's Oregon Pioneer Families
THORNTON, MATHENY, HEWITT, COOPER, THRAPP,
OTT, PEYTON, SMITH
& many others which primarily resided
in Marion, Yamhill, Washington, Clackamas,
Linn and Lane counties. Email: Kim Schildwachter
Pat Holling's Oregon Pioneer Families
Arneson - Norway/Canada/OR; Bruce -MA/VT/OR; Cookerly - MI/OR; Earle - Ireland/Canada/MI/NY/MI/OR; Ellis - NY/MI/OR; Fish - NY/VT/IL/WI/OR; Force - NY/OR; Hall - NH/VT/OR; Holling - Denmark/Germany/NY/UT/OR; Towner - CT/NY/MI/OR; Thomas - Wales/UT/OR. Email Pat: pholling@effectnet.com
The Benton County Genealogical Society has
a listing of Benton County Pioneers at WorldConnect,
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=benton.
I have a Surname Community web site for my mom's family MOODY and LOGUS, from Oregon. The first person to Oregon City was my great-great grandfather's brother, Charles Logus in the 1850's from Prussia. http://www.moodyfamily.bravepages.com - Margy Bare [scoutmjb@aol.com].
My gg grandfather was Stephen Ross, a brother to Sherry Ross who homesteaded Ross Island in the Willamette River. My grandmother, Mary Alice ROSS Hardy, was born in Portland in 1854 to Stephen ROSS and his wife Nancy Jane HOUSE Ross. Pat Bauer - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~patbauer/
Sharen Chambers's Families:
Land, Barnes, McLaughlin, Barker, Carter,
Chambers
Clyde's Senger's Families in Lake, Linn, Benton and Lane Counties:
Jonathan and Paul Brattain and descendants - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sengercm/brat.html
McQuinns - http://vgaetz.home.mindspring.com/mfpca.html
The Fields Family from Ray Co., MO to Linn Co., OR - Bonnie Bartlett.
Must contact Bonnie to get user name
and password. Site is on http://www.myfamily.com
Jan ( Graham) Walker's Oregon Families:
Walker, Jory, McKern, Quimby, McMurren
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/ford/index2.htm
The Descendants of Elbridge Trask, one of Oregon's earliest
pioneers, have a private, password-protected
website, which can be accessed by
invitation. To access the title page
with a link to the administrator for
more information go to http://www.traskdescendants.com. Contact: Patsy Skeels
Oregon families Huntley, Hundley, Stark, Chalk, Hosking,
Lamont, Baird, Perkins, Cawood:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/u/n/Dorothy-H-Huntley/.
Contact: Dot Hosking Huntley
Crystal Burton's website with Marion and Linn County families
Hoeye, Pepperling, Ranking, Foss: http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/crystalpb1
Joyce Cooper's website:
Vincent and Hammersley families, in Lake Co. and Jackson Co. OR.
There are many other connected names on the
site.
http://www.geocities.com/jarmscoop
My mother was born in Oregon City OR as well
as her 2 brothers.
My grandmother and her mother are buried
at Mountainview Cem in Oregon City OR.
Ophelia Robacker Black (wife of Clinton Black) (My grandparents) lived at Mt Pleasant
(a suburb of Oregon City). Samuel J Robacker died at Portland Oregon.
I have death certs for Samuel and his daughter
Ophelia. I am
researching the Black and Robacker families.
Laurie Dunham, Cortland, NY.
Bowlus Family of Umatilla County Oregon
http://members.aol.com/gkobernus/bowlus/bowlus_index.html
George Kobernus
6296 Red Fox Run
Traverse City, MI 49686
BOWLUS FAMILY
My G Grandfather, William Martin Berry,
wife Sarah Angeline (King) and their three
youngest
children, Gussie, Evert and Arthur, traveled
by team from Paris, Arkansas to Union County,
Oregon in 1885.
Jim Berry
I have Oregon pioneer families in my tree
that's located at
http://worldconnect.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kenskin39
Family surnames include
Belieu, Hodges, Vanderpool, Michael, Letsom,
Harer, Aubrey, Carter, Morgan,
Rhoades, Bonney, Stewart, Zumwalt, Jenkins,
Gay, Schulze
with Native American families in WA and BC as well.
2659 McGregor Drive
RanchoCordova, CA 95670
kenrob39@sbcglobal.net
Carlson, Hutton, Hawkins, Patterson, Greenfield,
Armstrong, Bierly, Blampied,
Peterson, Tift, Bean Families of Oregon
Must contact Bryan Carlson at br_carlson@yahoo.com
to get user name and password.
Site is on http://www.myfamily.com
I have been building my family tree for 5
years now and boy, has it grown!
In this last year it has shot up from about
25 people to over 300!
Bucharelli, Mahan, Hetherman, (Hederman,
Heatherman), Riffel, and Landers
e-mail Maerie Landers at MaerieLanders@myfamily.com
I am researching the ANDERSON, SPENCER, TAYLOR,
KESTER, OLTHOFF names in
the counties of JACKSON, KLAMATH, GRANT,
BENTON and MARION.
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~andersonvriese/
Staci Anderson Vriese
1179 SW 182nd Ave
Beaverton OR 97006
sgvriese@yahoo.com
Matt Ragan has a web site at: http://www.theragens.com/history/historyhome.htm for RAGEN family history
http://www.FamilyHistory1.homestead.com/
I am the descendent of John K. Kennedy who was Captain of a Wagon Train over the Oregon Trial in 1862. I have a "reconstructed" roster done by 2 memebers of the Train in the 1880's and then addition from other proven descenents of train members. Some members settled in the Walla Walla Co., WA area and some in Oregon, mostly Umitilla Co., OR. Reconstruction of Roster - 1862
Jayne McCarley jaymccarley1@comcast.net
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