Genealogy Projects tagged with oregon on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Oregon Counties, Cities, Communities and Towns Project

    This project is part of the State of Oregon Portal. About the Project Please use this project to add, research, document, and discuss your ancestors from Missouri. You can add profiles for: People born in Oregon People who lived in Oregon People who died in Oregon When you find helpful resources for research, please share them here so that others can benefit. If you have p...

  • American Old West

    Wikipedia Designed to capture contributors and participants in America's expansion westward from the east coast. Including politicians, newsmen, explorers, founding fathers, frontiersmen, mountainmen, railroadmen, lawmen, outlaws, gunfighters, etc. Notable people of the American Old West Artists Frederic Remington - Artist who specialized in the American Old West Explorers Saca...

  • Finnish immigrants in Oregon, USA

    This is a project for Finnish-born immigrants and for their descendants in Oregon, USA. Brief history of Finns in Oregon Finnish people have long had a connection to Oregon, starting about 1804 as administrators, sailors, trappers, and craftsmen with the Russian-American Company engaged in the sea otter fur trade. In the late 1800s many Swedish-speaking Finns settled in the Coos Bay area....

  • Northern Illinois University

    Wikipedia =Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university located in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, with satellite centers in Chicago, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford, and Oregon. It was originally founded as Northern Illinois State Normal School on May 22, 1895, by Illinois Governor John P. Altgeld as part of an expansion of the state's system for producing college ...

  • Multnomah County, Oregon

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Multnomah County, Oregon. The area of the lower Willamette River has been inhabited for thousands of years, including by the Multnomah band of Chinookan peoples long before European contact, as evidenced by the nearby Cathlapotle village, just downstream. Multnomah County (the 13th in Oregon Territory) was created on December 22, 18...

  • University of Oregon

    The University of Oregon (also referred to as UO or Oregon) is a public flagship research university located in Eugene, Oregon. UO was founded in 1876. The institution's campus is 295 acres in size and is situated along the Willamette River. Since July 2014, UO has been governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon. The university is classified as having very high research activ...

  • Clatsop County, Oregon

    The Lewis and Clark Expedition stayed for the winter of 1805–6 in the area, establishing Fort Clatsop as one of the earliest American structures on the west coast of North America. Astoria, Oregon's oldest settlement, was established as a fur trading post in 1811 and named after John Jacob Astor. Clatsop County was created from the northern and western portions of the original Twality District...

  • State of Oregon

    This subportal is part of the USA Portal . This is the master project for Oregon and its history. State of Oregon Nickname(s): Beaver State Motto(s): Alis volat propriis (Latin: She flies with her own wings) State song(s): "Oregon, My Oregon" Demonym: Oregonian Capital: Salem Largest city: Portland Please do not add profiles to the State of Oregon project. Add them ...

  • Twin Oaks Memorial Gardens, Albany, Oregon

    This cemetery is located on 34275 Riverside Drive SW, Albany, Linn County, Oregon. Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • Murray Hill Cemetery, Clatskanie, Oregon

    This cemetery is located on 90 SW Hall Road, Clatskanie, Columbia County, Oregon. Find a Grave

  • Brownsville Pioneer Cemetery, Brownsville, Oregon

    Brownsville Cemetery, also known as Masonic Cemetery , is located in Linn County; Brownsville, Oregon and is East of Brownsville, North side of the River. It was established in the year 1851 and has approximately 400 graves & is still used today. The grounds are kept up very nicely. Find a Grave

  • Linn County, Oregon

    On December 28, 1847, the Provisional Legislature created Linn County from the southern portion of Champoeg (later Marion) County. The boundaries were altered in 1851 and 1854 with the creation of Lane and Wasco Counties. The county seat was originally located in Calapooia (later known as Brownsville), but in 1851 the Territorial Legislature passed an act establishing Albany as the county seat....

  • Marion County, Oregon

    Marion County was created by the Provisional Legislature of Oregon on July 5, 1843, as the Champooick District, one of the original four districts of the Oregon Country along with Twality (later Washington), Clackamas, and Yamhill counties. The four districts were redesignated as counties in 1845. The county is named for Brig. Gen. Francis Marion , the Swamp Fox. Originally, this political en...

  • Clackamas County, Oregon

    Originally named Clackamas District, it was one of the four original Oregon districts created by Oregon's Provisional Legislature on July 5, 1843, along with Twality (later Washington), Champooick (later Marion), and Yamhill. The four districts were redesignated as counties in 1845. At the time of its creation, Clackamas County covered portions of four present-day U.S. states and a Canadian pro...

  • Eugene, Oregon

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Eugene, Oregon. Official Website Eugene is the county seat of Lane County and is known as "Emerald City" and "Track Town, USA" Wikipedia French fur traders had settled seasonally in the Willamette Valley by the beginning of the 19th century. Having already developed relationships with Native communities through intermarriage and...

  • Lane County, Oregon

    The county is named for the first Governor of the Oregon Territory & US Senator Joseph Lane . Elijah Bristow was the first white settler to stake a claim and build a permanent cabin in 1846 in the upper Willamette Valley, in what is now Lane County, Oregon, United States. Cemeteries Cemeteries of Oregon Links Wikipedia

  • Riverside Cemetery, Albany, Oregon

    Albany Riverside Cemetery was established on land donated by Walter and Thomas Monteith and platted on a small tract near the west end of Walter Monteith's land. It was formally deeded for cemetery purposes in the 1860s and previously used by public consent. The first burial of record is George W. Hughes, son of George and Sarah Hughes, November 12, 1847. The Cemetery is comprised of four for...

  • IOOF Cemetery, Lebanon, Oregon

    This cemetery is located on 37295 Cemetery Drive, Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon. It's also known as Lebanon Masonic Cemetery , Lebanon Oddfellows and Masonic Cemetery and Odd Fellows Cemetery . Find a Grave Billion Graves

  • United States House of Representatives from Oregon

    List of United States Representatives from Oregon Oregon's current delegation to the United States House of Representatives as of January 2025: 1st district -- Suzanne Bonamici 2st district -- Cliff Bentz 3rd district -- Maxine Dexter 4th district -- Val Hoyle 5th district -- Janelle Bynum 6th district -- Andrea Salinas

  • Portland, Oregon

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Portland, Oregon. Official Website Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1830s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the city had...

  • University of Portland

    The University of Portland (also referred to as UP ) is a private Roman Catholic university located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross, which also founded UP's sister school the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1901, UP has a student body of about 4,000 students. UP is ranked 8th in the west for Regional Universities in 2015 by U.S. News...

  • Wallowa County, Oregon

    Wallowa County is the northeastern most county in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,391, making it Oregon's fifth-least populous county. Its county seat is Enterprise. According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origins of the county's name are uncertain, with the most likely explanation being it is derived from the Nez Perce term for a structure of stakes (a w...

  • Umatilla County, Oregon

    This project is for those who were born, lived, and died in Umatilla County, Oregon. Umatilla County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. The population of 81,826 ranks it as the 14th largest in Oregon, and largest in Eastern Oregon. Hermiston is the largest city in Umatilla County, but Pendleton remains the county seat. Umatilla County is part of the Hermiston-Pendleton, OR ...

  • Benton County, Oregon

    Benton County was created on December 23, 1847, by an act of the Provisional Government of Oregon. The county was named after Democratic Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, an advocate of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the belief that the American government should control the whole of the Oregon Country. At the time of its formation the county included all the country west of the Wil...

  • Coos County, Oregon

    The name Coos originated from the name of the Native American tribe that had settled the area. "Coos" loosely translates to "lake" or "place of pines". Lewis and Clark noted Cook-koo-oose. Early maps and documents spelled it Kowes, Cowes, Coose, Koos, among others. Although exploration and trapping in the area occurred as early as 1828, the first European-American settlement was established at...

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