Linn Genealogical Society

Linn Genealogical Society The Linn Genealogical Society is based in Albany, Linn County, Oregon.

06/06/2023

Don’t miss
Albany Regional Museum
History Bites returns on
Wednesday, June 14, 12 noon to 1pm

People, Places, Things: How to find your story
Presenters: Bill Maddy & Paul Huzefka

Articles in June’s The Heritage Newsletter!Learn about Albany Regional Museum’s building move which took two horses almo...
06/01/2023

Articles in June’s The Heritage Newsletter!

Learn about Albany Regional Museum’s building move which took two horses almost two weeks in 1912 to move the building three blocks!

And don’t forget to send me Family Traditions and Recipes for our December issue!
Liz

Coming to Linn Genealogical Society member’s emails today, the June 2023 issue of The Heritage Newsletter!
05/30/2023

Coming to Linn Genealogical Society member’s emails today, the June 2023 issue of The Heritage Newsletter!

Happy Memorial Day! Reward after time spent at Riverview Cemetery uncovering three overgrown gravesites!I discovered the...
05/29/2023

Happy Memorial Day!
Reward after time spent at Riverview Cemetery uncovering three overgrown gravesites!

I discovered the flat, overgrown gravestones just south of their grandfather, Stephen D Haley in Riverside Cemetery, Albany when I was putting flowers at Stephen Haley’s gravesite. I cleared the dirt and grass that had nearly obscurred the gravestones for Missouri E Helm (1853-1858), Joseph Lane Helm (1853-1855).

Two of these gravesites were children of Stephen’s oldest daughter, Amanda Haley Helm and Lawrence S Helm, who came to Oregon Territory via the plains route in 1851. Samantha married Helm after they arrived in Oregon Territory. On the far right is the gravesite of S. A. Douglas Helm (1851-1853), a half sibling of Missouri and Joseph. Douglas’s mother was Susannah Rea, first wife of Lawrence Helm. She died on the journey west at Dry Creek.

02/22/2018

The March 3, 2018 LGS meeting will be held at Albany’s Historic Carousel & Museum at 503 1st Avenue. Come join us in the Community Room at 1:15. Gladys Seifert is the featured speaker and her topic is probate and wills. Visit albanycarousel.com for details about parking.

08/16/2017

Our first meeting after the summer break is scheduled for Saturday, September 2. Join us for “Using Timelines to Solve Brick Walls” presented by Nanci Re*****on.

Nanci became interested in using timelines because of her work with the “brick wall” group at the Genealogical Forum of Oregon in Portland. The group needed a framework for people to submit their research problems. Timelines proved to be useful – both as a way to organize materials and to put a person into historical perspective. This presentation will cover the steps for creating a time line, show examples from the brick wall group and illustrate the creation of a simple timeline from information found in a family Bible.

We look forwarding to seeing you at the Albany Public Library Meeting Room, 2450 14th Ave. SE, Albany at 1:15 pm on September 2, 2017. For more information call the LGS Library at 541-791-1618 or visit our web site at www.lgsoregon.org.

12/30/2016

Mark your calendar for our first 2017 meeting. On January 7th, the program will feature a “Genealogical Resource Panel” comprised of representatives from four local organizations. Guests from the Lebanon Genealogical Society, Scio Library and Museum, the Sweet Home Genealogical Society, and the Albany LDS Family History Center will provide information on how the resources they have may be useful in your research, as well as updates about their facilities and projects they are working on.

There are many sources of information in Linn County and knowing “where to go for what” can at times be challenging. Please join us on Saturday, January 7th, at 1:15 in the Public Meeting Room at the Albany Public Library, 2450 14th Ave SE for this informative program.

Have you checked out the Linn Genealogical Society’s web site at www.lgsoregon.org? In addition to information about our...
11/15/2016

Have you checked out the Linn Genealogical Society’s web site at www.lgsoregon.org? In addition to information about our Society (officers, meetings, research services, etc.), we have a database search tool that you can use to do a name search of all our indexed records. Our indexed records include digitized images of all death certificates for Linn and Benton Counties from 1903 through 1965. The images for Linn County can be viewed online on our web site and the images for both counties can be viewed from the computers in the Society’s Research Room. Credit for the death certificate database goes to one of our great volunteers who spent hours at the Oregon State Archives taking digital photographs of these documents.

Don’t miss our next meeting on November 5th! We have a great program planned with two guest speakers. Judi Scott and Car...
10/18/2016

Don’t miss our next meeting on November 5th! We have a great program planned with two guest speakers. Judi Scott and Carol Surrency will present “Virginia and the Making of America.” Judi’s focus will be early settlements and migration patterns and Carol will talk about the culture and the ethnicity of the earliest settlers, along with some political issues of the day. Join us at 1:15 pm in the meeting room at the Albany Public Library at 2450 14th Avenue S.E. in Albany to learn about Virginia in the early days of America.

Photo credit: 1606 map of Virginia from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C.

Please join us for our monthly meeting at the Albany Public Library Meeting Room on Saturday, October 1 at 1:15 pm. Duan...
09/29/2016

Please join us for our monthly meeting at the Albany Public Library Meeting Room on Saturday, October 1 at 1:15 pm. Duane Funk will present “Trains - - Riding the Rails.” You will learn about when the railroads reached the western cities and what it was like to travel then compared to today. If your ancestor worked for the railroads, find out what records are available to aid in your research.

Avery Park locomotive, Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives.

09/29/2016

The Linn Genealogical Society is based in Albany, Linn County, Oregon. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to “studying, sharing, collecting, and preserving genealogical and historical information” concerning Linn County’s culture and heritage. For over 40 years, the Society has encouraged interest in family and regional history through its many projects.

We hold monthly program meetings September through June. Meetings are held on the first Saturday of the month from 1:15-3 pm and are open to the public in the meeting room of the Albany Public Library, 2450 14th Avenue SE, Albany. Membership in the Linn Genealogical Society is open to anyone interested in researching family history, especially in Linn County Oregon. The individual membership fee is $15 per year and includes 10 issues of the The Heritage Newsletter. To become a member, come to a meeting or visit our Research Room at the library. You may also use the membership form athttp://www.lgsoregon.org/lgswp/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LgsMembershipForm.pdf to join by mail.

Address

2450 14th Ave. SE
Albany, OR
97322

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 7pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 1pm - 4pm
Friday 1pm - 4pm
Saturday 1pm - 4pm

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+15417911618

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