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• LDS Family History Catalog Search  (do a place search by state or county or town etc. to see what has been filmed)
  
  
• Oregon at Rootsweb
  
  
• Oregon Databases at Rootsweb
  
   
  
• U.S. GenWeb Project: Oregon 
  

Research Guides

• Oregon Research Outline 
  
  

Archives & Libraries

• Oregon Digital Archives (Rootsweb)
  
  
• Oregon Genealogical Societies
  
  
• Oregon Libraries on the Web
  
  
• Oregon State Archives  (its big so look around and don't miss anything!)
  
  
• Oregon State Library
  
  
  

Census Resources

• Census Online: Oregon 
  
  
• U.S. GenWeb Census Search 
  
  

Geographic Resources

• 1886 Map of Oregon
  
  
• Applegate Trail: the Southern Route of the Oregon Trail 
  
  
• Central Pacific Railroad Maps
   
• Geography of the Oregon Trail Through Nebraska
  
  
• Oregon County Map
  
  
• Oregon Ghost Towns 
  
  
• Oregon Maps: Perry Castaneda Library 
  
  
• Oregon Trail Map Library
  
  
• Pacific Northwest Railrway Maps 
  
  
• Panoramic Maps 1847-1929: Oregon 
  
  
• Rootsweb Town Search
  
  

History Resources

• All About the Oregon Trail 
  
  
• Discovering Lewis & Clark 
  
  
• Echoes of Oregon 1837-1859 
  
  
  
• Links to the Oregon Trail 
  
  
• Oregon Native American Tribes 
  
  
• Oregon State Archives Photograph Database 
  
  
• Oregon: the Prohibition Years 
  
  
• Oregon Trail Time Lines 
  
  
• Wallis & Kimble Northwest Database 
  
  
  

Land Records

• Bureau of Land Management Land Patent Search 
  
  
• Explanation of the Oregon Donation Land Claims 
  
  
• Oregon State Archives Oregon Land Records Directory 
  
  

Military  Records

• Oregon Forts
  
  
• Oregon Genweb Military Page
  
  
• Oregon Military Department Home Page
  
  
• Civil War Archive: Oregon
  
  
• Oregon Civil War Genealogy
  
  

Newspapers

• U.S. Newspaper Project: Oregon
  
  
• Kidon Media-Link: Oregon 
  
  
  

Vital Records

• Oregon Vital Records Information 
  
  
• Oregon State Archives Vital Record Search
  
  
  
• Portland Birth Index 
   
• CemSearch Oregon
  
  
• Cemeteries of Oregon   [Interment.net]
  
  
  
  Note: the Oregon Death Index is (at least at this time) only online through Ancestry (paid subscription). Both the LDS Family History Library and Wenatchee Area Genealogical Society own copies if you visit their libraries. 
  

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