Oregon, Douglas County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

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 * Deed records and indexes (1852-1920)
 * Marriage records and indexes (1913-1950)

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 * Names of the bride and groom
 * Marriage date and place
 * Name of county in which each reside
 * Names of witnesses
 * Name and title of officiator at ceremony

Land and property
 * Names of interested individuals
 * Date of transaction
 * Monies exchanged
 * Legal description of the land parcel
 * Name of witnesses
 * Death or estate information
 * Names of dependent children

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 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in census records
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 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names, of even initials

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Douglas County, birth records, 1903-1922
 * Douglas County, marriage records, 1852-1952
 * Douglas County, death records, 1903-1920
 * Douglas County, coroner's records, 1896-1972
 * Douglas County, county Court records, 1853-1940
 * Douglas County, deed and mortgage records, 1850-1966
 * Douglas County, mining records, 1857-1955
 * Douglas County, naturalization records, 1853-1960
 * Douglas County, old age and widows pension records, 1934-1936
 * Douglas County, probate records, ca. 1852-1963 Case Files
 * Douglas County, register of physicians, midwives and undertakers, 1915
 * Douglas County, tax records, 1873
 * Douglas County, voter records, 1900-1914
 * Douglas County, water rights records, 1904-1914
 * Douglas County, widows pension records, 1913-1927
 * Umpqua County, deed records, 1850-1856
 * Umpqua County, probate court records, 1859-1863
 *  Publications
 * Historic Douglas County, Oregon Roseburg, Oregon : Douglas County Historical Society (Oregon),1982. FHL 979.529 H2h
 * René Keel, Kay Livermore, comps. Douglas County, Oregon, cemetery records 21 volume Roseburg, Oregon : Genealogical Society of Douglas County (Oregon), c1989 FHL 979.529 V3k
 * Genealogical Society of Douglas County. Douglas County pioneer Roseburg, Oregon : Genealogical Society of Douglas County (Oregon), 1986- FHL 979.529 D25d
 * originally abstracted by Bette Dickover ; additions by Doris Curry. Register of married women's separate property, 1859-1903.Roseburg, Oregon : Genealogical Society of Douglas County (Oregon), c2004 FHL 979.529 R2d

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Albert G. Walling. History of southern Oregon : comprising Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Curry and Coos counties. Portland, Oregon : A.G. Walling, 1884.

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