GFO Fall Seminar 2018

Mark your calendar for the Genealogical Forum Of Oregon's annual fall seminar on November 3-4 2018.  

This years program will be presented by one of genealogies top 5 website providers Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi's List. 

https://www.cyndislist.com/

A genealogist for more than 33 years, and owner and webmaster of Cyndi's List , a author of 3 books and a lecturer and  member of several genealogical societies. Cyndi's website provides more than 300,000 links to genealogical resources for genealogical research.

Registration for the seminar have not yet been released so check frequently with GFO website for registration and attendance forms. 

www.gfo.org

Can you help?? Gorge Heritage Museum

We received this query from the Gorge Heritage Museum in Bingen, Washington asking for help from gorge societies and history researchers:

This is the list of names we have identified and confirmed are currently located at the Pioneer Cemetery (graveyard in early newspaper articles). These people passed from 1878 to about 1906. We believe that others are most likely also buried there. We only currently have one primary source (newspaper clipping) for those names and they are not included at this time.


Our history project for the Gorge Heritage Museum is to get volunteers to select one name and help us do the research, with backup documentation for their findings. As a fund raiser for the Gorge Heritage Museum we will be presenting six or seven of these individuals in a "Cemetery Tales" at the Pioneer Cemetery the first weekend of June 2019, which will be the same weekend as Springfest next year. Our goal is to be able to do all of the individuals buried there over the next few years. The person doing the research will have the first opportunity to be the actor at the cemetery tales. By doing the research they would most likely have a stronger connection to that individual. If they decline we will try to get another person (actor) to do the part.


I don't know if anyone from the genealogical society has ancestors buried there.


Our long range goal is to present these findings in a published book, also a fund raiser for GHM, and to educate the public this is an early graveyard of White Salmon's founders, not just a place to take your dog to "do his business."


Most of our assistance will come via email but we may have a meeting or two over the next year at the museum in Bingen. The color coding is so you can see where we got our information. Remember some of it may contradict other sources. We are in the process of obtaining digitized copies of the files at the Bethel Congregational Church which was where the cemetery was originally connected.

We can be reached at ghm@gorge.net.

All Names Combined - Bethel files,  Find a Grave on line,  Gorge Heritage Museum files

Anderson, Anne

Church, George S. hardware person per obit

Church, Mary A.

Clarkson, Charles

Cooke, James Harrison

Dawson, Syrena or Sarina b. 1831 d. 1887

Dunn, Harvey brother of Mary Dunn Mansfield, nephew of Jenny Jewett

Wesley Evans

Everhart, John W.

Ferguson, W. J.

Gillsthap

Groshong, Katie M.

Groshong, Lloyd C.

Hansen, Reinert B.

Hendryx, Bethewel Nathan

Jacobsen

Johnston, John

Knutson Graves had an early jewelry store in White Salmon for many years several family members of mixed ancestry, Native American.

Lauterbach, Emil
Lauterbach, John Father of Rudolph (Rudolf)

Lauterbach, Margarethe Mother of Rudolph

Locke, Amy Frances Dark

Locke, Amy Elizabeth

McCoy, Wm H headstone moved to IOOF on Snowden RD 1994

Palmer, Cornellius J.

Plasket, Chas.

Rankin, Mary Anne Purser

Sisson, John P

Sisson, Hannah (wife)

Swan, George

Swan, Mary A.

Warner, James – boy baby @ Pioneer Cemetery

Waters, Spencer

Willets, Sgt. William

Williams, Emerson P.

Williams, Lydia A.

Wyers, Ida

Ziegler, Harry F.

Ziegler, Monroe Allen





Thank You to anyone that can offer any information!

Dr. Charles B. Brooks - A Case Study Recap

In January, our volunteer librarian at the William Dick Library in the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center and a long time member of CGGS,  Sandy Bisset,   presented a query to our society from a historical group from the Southern Oregon Historical Society. This query was put forward to the members to research and on March 14th the findings of the research were reviewed and combined in a research summery. The project is still ongoing, some of the questions queried were still not answered and are still up for further research. Anither program in October hopefully will reveal the unanswered questions . The research project was enjoyed in those who chose to take part.   

Images: Jim Bull

Champoeg State Heritage Area Celebrates Founders Day May 5

Champoeg State Heritage Area will host living history actors, a replica historic townsite and other family-friendly activities for the annual Founders' Day celebration on Saturday, May 5. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the 1843 vote held in Champoeg that established the first provisional government west of the Mississippi River. The free event runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Activities will include a reenacted fur trappers' camp, replica historic townsite with building facades, tradesmen demonstrating 19th century techniques and a post office with souvenir post cards. A 1 p.m. ceremony to honor the original May 1843 voters will feature distinguished speakers, a mock vote and a rifle salute. The afternoon concludes with a live stage coach run delivering the souvenir post cards to the St. Paul post office.

Founders' Day celebrates a vote held in Champoeg by local settlers on May 2, 1843. A large group gathered that day to decide the future of the Oregon territory. After a spirited debate, a slim majority voted "aye" to form Oregon's first provisional government, laying the groundwork for Oregon's statehood in 1859. Founders' Day has been held annually at Champoeg since 1901.

Event parking at Champoeg State Heritage Area will be free. Light refreshments will be available after the conclusion of the 1 p.m. ceremony. For more information visit oregonstateparks.org or call

503-678-1251.

Image:  Map of the administrative districts of the en:Provisional Government of Oregon, as of 1843. Source=Horner, John B. (1919). ''Oregon: Her History, Her Great Men, Her Literature''.

"Unlock Your Past" event review

In March, CGGS along with the White Salmon Library presented a beginning genealogy event at the White Salmon Library. Carol Fritsch and Robin Karvonen from the Fort Vancouver  library gave a slide presentation on how to begin your genealogy research. It was great coordination of two of our members, Fred Henchell , Diane Barkhimer and WS librarian Ruth Shafer. 

Images: Diane Barkhimer