Jackson County, Oregon Genealogy

United States Oregon  Jackson County

County Courthouse
http://www.co.jackson.or.us/ Jackson County Courthouse Room 216 10 South Oakdale Medford, OR 97501


 * Jacksonville was the former county seat prior to 1927.


 * Records kept at the Courthouse: County Records Inventory listing the records held at the Jackson County Court House as of September 2001.


 * Record Loss:

Quick Facts


Named for, seventh president of the United States.

Parent County
12 January 1852: Created from Umpqua.

Boundary Changes

 * Parts taken for:

22 December 1853: Coos County

11 January 1854: Wasco County

22 January 1856: Josephine County

24 October 1874: Lake County

Cities
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Ashland | Butte Falls | Central Point | Eagle Point | Gold Hill | Jacksonville | Medford | Phoenix | Rogue River | Shady Cove | Talent

Communities
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Applegate | Lake Creek | Prospect | Rock Point | Ruch | Sams Valley | Trail | White City | Wimer

Miscellaneous Places
Miscellaneous Places, historic and contemporary, can be found at the Jackson County Genealogy Library Website

Neighboring Counties
Douglas | Josephine | Klamath | Siskiyou County, California

Trivia Tidbits
Information about localities, too small or too brief to describe in separate pages. Exception to this are Post Offices. &gt; Trivia Tidbits

Cemeteries

 * Jackson County Genealogy Librarymaintains and updates a listing of burials and or deaths in Jackson County Oregon. All Jackson County cemeteries are listed with links to Google mapsto help users locate individual cemeteries. Each entry in the database includes the following information: name of the deceased, year of death, year of birth, cemetery if buried in Jackson County, a code designating the source of our information,e.g., o for obituary and a headstone photo. Additional information is available in the full database housed at the library, contact by [info@rvgslibrary.org email] for more information. Of course, not all information is included for every individual in the database but we do update the database frequently. All information in the database is free.

Census

 * 1850
 * 1853 Territorial Transcription and Index
 * 1854 Territorial Transcription and Index
 * 1855 Territorial Transcription and Index
 * 1856 Territorial Transcription and Index
 * 1857 Territorial Transcription and Index
 * 1858 Territorial Transcription and Index
 * 1859 State Transcription and Index
 * 1860
 * 1870
 * 1880
 * 1890
 * 1893 State Transcription and Index
 * 1900
 * 1910
 * 1920
 * 1930

Court Records
The website of Jackson County Genealogy Library contains indexes to marriage certificates, divorce records, naturalization documents, and deeds. Copies of the the orignal and/or of abstracts of those documents can be obtained by paying a nominal fee.

Rivers and Waterways
Details about the rivers and waterways where farms and settlements are often found along them. &gt;&gt; Rivers and Waterways

Vital Records
The Jackson County Genealogy Library has extensive indexes to births, marriages, divorces, death certificates, and obituaries for residents of Jackson County.

Societies, Libraries and Museums

 * Jackson County Genealogy Library maintained by Rogue Valley Genealogical Society

Web Sites

 * The Jackson County GenWeb Project;part of The ORGenWeb Project
 * Linkpendium
 * Jackson County, Oregon History Notes
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project
 * [http://www.usgwarchives.org/or/jackson/jacksontoc.htm The USGenWeb Archives Project (backup site)
 * Family History Library catalog for Jackson County