Project: Oregon

Categories: Oregon | Oregon Project | Oregon Projects | United States Project | Volunteers Needed

This project is part of the United States Project

Welcome to the Oregon State Project!

The state of Oregon was previously part of the Oregon Territory and became the 33rd state of the U.S. on February 14, 1859.

How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Oregon or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:

Are you interested in the Oregon Project?

• Project Leaders: Azure Robinson
• Coordinators: Stephanie Stults
• Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Oregon project and get a badge.
• Add Oregon to your followed tags.
• We use G2G and #united-states channel on the WikiTree Discord Server for communication.
• Check out our maintenance categories for our project needs, then jump in and start helping!
• Here is the Oregon project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.

• Look at one of the Oregon project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.
• Oregon Project Member List.
• Here is what our members are working on.

About

The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Oregon-related projects and resources and combine that information into one place. Our goal is to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in the state of Oregon.

Counties

The following table provides links to space pages for each county in Oregon. If you would like to be a member of a county, send the project leader a private message, and you will be added to the trusted list. Currently, all counties need team leaders!

Task List

People

1. Add Oregon-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
2. See the Oregon State Maintenance Category "Needs" categories
   1. Needs GEDCOM Cleanup If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
   2. Needs Biography: Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
   3. Needs Profiles Created: Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
   4. Needs More Records: Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
      1. Unsourced Profiles
      2. Needs Birth Record
      3. Needs Marriage Record
      4. Needs Death Record
3. Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Oregon. See the Homesteaders Project
4. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Oregon state tribes.
5. Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from Oregon in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
6. Register Cliff

Places

• Would you like to lead a county sub-project? these counties need a Team Leader
• If you're interested in coordinating a place study for somewhere in Oregon, see the join post for the One Place Studies Project. Here are some ideas for studies:
  • National Register of Historic Places
  • Dams
  • Military forts
• Cemeteries in Oregon need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree.
• Location categories for places in Oregon need the CategoryInfoBox Location filled in with information. If you're interested in helping with this effort, contact project leadership to get you started.

Errors/Suggestions

1. Work on Oregon's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
2. Work on Suggestions for profiles from Oregon, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.

State Resources

Oregon Genealogy Resources

• State Sources
  • General Sources
  • External Links
• County Sources

1. If you find a free online resource:
   1. Check to make sure a free-space page doesn't already exist.
   2. Create space page - see: Share Source on WikiTree
   3. Add internal link to new page to the correction section on Sources-Oregon page
2. If you have any Oregon state resources that you are willing to do lookups on, please add them to the Resources Page.
3. If you live in Oregon, please consider adding Category: Oregon Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Related

Categories

• Oregon Category page
  • Oregon Projects page
  • Oregon, Cemeteries
  • Oregon Colleges & Universities
  • Oregon, Governors
  • Oregon Homesteaders
  • Oregon Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
  • Oregon, Politicians
  • Oregon, Religious Congregations
  • Oregon Research Assistance
  • Oregon Genealogy Resources

Projects and Pages

• Homesteaders Project
• Native Americans Project
• US Governors Project
• Oregon in the Great War
• United States in World War II
• Oregon disasters in the Disasters Project
• Oregon studies in the One Place Studies Project
• Western Red Cedars Team for Big Annual Challenges

Templates

Project Box

... ... ... is a part of Oregon history. Join: Oregon Project Discuss: Oregon

For profiles needing Project Protection only. Be sure to add the United States Project as manager of the profile: wtushistory@googlegroups.com

Profile Stickers

See: Oregon Sticker for more details

... ... ... was an Oregonian.

Deceased persons

... ... ... is an Oregonian.

Living Persons

See: Nonmigrating Ancestory Sticker for more details

Native Oregonian (born, married, and died in Multnomah County)

This sticker has more flexibility

Sources

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