The original European settlement on the French Prairie was populated by French Canadians and Metis people from Quebec and the Red River Valley. While America was busy with the War of 1812 back east, the Northwest Company brought the settlers from Canada to the Willamette Valley as fur trappers. By 1821 the Hudson Bay Company (HBC) absorbed the Northwest Company. If you had ancestors that lived in the French Prairie community, you may find records about them in the Manitoba archives as the HBC donated their records to the province of Manitoba. These brave and industrious settlers paved the way for the pioneers. To know more about the French Prairie visit the website of the St. Paul Mission Historical Society.

Why Eugene Malo came to Oregon is still a mystery to me. Maybe if I dig a bit deeper I will find out. What I do know is that he is my 5th cousin. Genealogical records indicate that he first arrived in Oregon at the age of 17 in 1876, he is back with his family in Quebec in 1881, he arrived in Oregon again in 1882 at the age of 22 and also in 1888 at the age of 29. He married Eulalie Foisy, who was born on the French Prairie, daughter of Medard Godard Foisy b. 1816 in Quebec d. 1880 on the French Prairie, and Marie Anne Delard 1833 – 1908, born and died on the French Prairie. Eugene and Eulalie had nine children, one of which, Alfred Bernard Malo, settled in Albany, and is buried there.

Line of descendancy from Gilles Hayet b. and d. in France, perhaps in the area of St Malo, to Alfred Bernard Malo
1-Gilles Hayet (1610 – ?)
+Jeanne Héreault (1615 – 1669)
. . . . 2-Jean Hayet dit St. Malo (1639 – 1721)
. . . . +Catherine Galbrun (1667 – 1744)
. . . . . . . . 3-Louis Hayet dit St Malo (1691 – 1770)
. . . . . . . . +Marie Madeleine Emery dit Coderre (1698 – 1753)
. . . . . . . . . . . . 4-Michel Ayet Malo (1733 – 1791)
. . . . . . . . . . . . +Marie Cecile Petit (1737 – 1771)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-Joseph Ayet Malo (abt. 1766 – 1849)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Rose Mabriand (1762 – 1842)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-Joseph Ayet Malo (16 Aug. 1791 – 7 March 1857)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Marie-Anne Gravel (21 July 1801 -)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-Jean Baptiste Malo (abt 1828 – 8 Dec. 1906)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +Délima Pelletier (15 July 1836 – 26 Oct. 1867)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-Eugene Malo (1859 – 6 January 1920)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .+Eulalie Foisy (1866 – 1939)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . …..9-Alfred Bernard Malo (1891 – 1944)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …… . . . .. . . . . .+Marvel Pettit (1899 -?)

Eugene Malo

Eulalie Foisy

Alfred Malo Obitutary

No July Program Meeting

Sat. Jul. 6, 2013
12:00 AM–12:00 AM

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Arthur Langley is retiring as the Editor of the Heritage Newsletter and LGS wants to express its appreciation for all the outstanding contributions Art has made to the Society. Though Art is retiring from editing the newsletter, he plans on continuing his LGS membership and supporting LGS in a less active roll.

Besides his contributions to LGS, Art can be described as someone who contributed to his county, his community and his family. In the first part of the article find out about what an extraordinary person Art is. The second part is an interview with Art where members can learn about the significant role he has played in LGS affairs.

Part One: About Art

Art was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. In case you were wondering, Art is descended from the English Langley’s not the French Langley’s.  At the age of 16, Art immigrated with his family to Santa Monica/Culver City area of California and he graduated with the 1^st graduation class at Culver City High School in 1953. During high school Art was a member of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) club and helped out in the student FBLA store. As a junior and senior in high school he participated in the 4-4 plan.  That is, his time was divided between work and school, 4 hours of school and 4 hours of work each school day.

In July 1953 Art enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was with the 1^st Marine Air Wing. He served in Korea 1954-55 and mustered out as a Sargent in June 1956. He did his Rest and Relaxation (R&R) three times in Kyoto, Japan and once in Hong Kong. 1956 was an eventful year for Art as besides mustering out and coming home, he became a citizen of the United States.

While working at Eastman Central D Art met Carol and in 1960 they and have been together for the last 52 years! Art and Carol had two natural children and adopted their first two great-grandchildren in 2007. They have five living grandchildren and two who are at home with the Lord. In all Art and Carol have four great-grandchildren.

Art has had an interesting career working for Douglas Aircraft at the Santa Monica branch as a lathe operator in the Experimental Department, and at Eastman Central D as a Forman. Central D manufactured aluminum, copper rigid and corrugated gas line connectors. They also manufactured corrugated water connectors for the hot water heaters and an Air Gap for the discharge water from the Dish Washer.

Art with his family moved to Salem, Oregon in 1966. In Oregon he worked for Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) from 1966 until his retirement as a Sargent in 1990. Having the aspiration to serve OSP the best he could, Art attended college to take courses pertaining to his work at OSP.  He was the Assistant Director for the Oregon Good Sam Club 1992-2000 for Linn and Benton Counties and was a member of the Willamette Sams Chapter here in Albany. Art joined the Linn Genealogical Society (LGS) in 1998. Since then he has made major contributions to the Society.

Travel is Art’s middle name! He and his family have done a considerable amount of traveling in a variety of different ways: by car, back packing, tenting, trailering, flying and cruising. In addition to Korea, Japan and Hong Kong, Art has been to all but one of the American states (Delaware), six Canadian Providences, the Yukon, Northwest Territories, five Europen countries, Mexico, Venezuela, and several Caribbean islands! Art and Carol especially like taking cruises with their children.

Part Two: An Interview with Art about his Contributions to LGS

 Please tell me Art how did you become the editor of the LGS newsletter?

Shortly after Carol and I joined LGS I started working with the newsletter. I initially volunteered to assist the Heritage Newsletter Editor Doris Bash as needed. When Doris retired from publishing the newsletter, LGS President Pam Knofler asked me to take over as editor/publisher. This seemed like a good fit for me because I was already assisting with the newsletter and was I was publishing THE TAILPIPE for the Willamette Sams, a Good Sam chapter here in Albany, so I had experience in organizing, editing, and publishing newsletters. Since then I have been publishing the Heritage Newsletter for 14 years.

Art can you please tell the members about the newsletter?

The newsletter is to inform the members of upcoming events and present articles of genealogical and historical interest. Linn Genealogical Society members send me articles and I also peruse articles of genealogical and historical content on and offline that I think the members would be interested in and what would benefit them as family historians.

What personal qualities do you need to be a successful newsletter editor as you have been?

You must enjoy writing and insuring that the members are kept up to date with the Society’s activities. You have to have the skills to identify both on and offline sources of information. You would need to understand current trends in the genealogy community so that the newsletter provides members with information they will find useful. You must enjoy frustration, or at least able to put up with it. You have to be willing to put in anywhere between to 8-10 hours of work to get each edition of the newsletter organized and published. The amount of time depends on if you have articles to put into the newsletter on hand or of you have to search and solicit for articles.

Art, you have created an impressive obituary collection, tell us about this special holding of the LGS library

My collection started 1998. I started it by cutting out the obituaries from the Albany Democrat Herald on a daily basis. I would use OCR software to convert newspaper obituaries into a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word and print them out into a book. Now I cut and paste from the Internet daily into Word then print it out in book form. The LGS prints the volumes out yearly. I have completed approximately 28 volumes of obituaries to date.

What motivated you to start this collection?

I was motivated because society members where randomly cutting obituaries out of the newspaper, gluing them to an 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper then copying and putting it in book form. I took it upon myself to do this electronically and this gave a finished product to the society. This format is a more efficient way to produce the volumes’ and better preserves the obituaries for the long term since there are both electronics copies stored on a CD disk as well as the printed volumes.

I know the members would like to know your role on the LSG Board of Directors, can you tell us about your activities on the Board.

I became a member of the Board when Byron Bray was elected President of LGS. In this role I have helped to shape the Society’s policies and Seminars.

What other activities have you been involved in with LGS?

I have been involved in numerous activities with LGS. A few highlights are that I indexed LGS publications, such as the Linn Co. Land Claim publication by LGS Member Richard Milligan. I assisted President Byron Bray with his LBCC computer Genealogy classes. I have helped to organize the Society’s Seminars and I taught a class at a LGS Seminar. I Have volunteered at the LGS Library and I helped out at some of the societies garage sales.

Thank you Art!

On behalf of the President, the Board of Directors, and all member of LGS we would like to express our deep appreciation and warmest thanks to Art for all of his outstanding contributions to the Linn Genealogical Society.

Whenever I explore a census to help build a family tree, I think of Carmen and the detectives searching the world for clues as to her whereabouts. This is because the census may just hold more clues to your genealogy than any other type of official document you will find; however, unlike the detectives pursuing Carmen, a census search doesn’t happen at breakneck speed. It is important for you to take time to contemplate, understand, and be amazed by the information available in the U.S. census, so that you can reap all the benefits of this resource. Having a census is like holding a genealogical gift right in the palm of your hand. It is the closet you can get with just a single document to understanding the life experiences of your ancestors. Reading a census can at times be a moving experience as you learn more about your ancestors’ lives.

There’s a lot more to a census than just names and places. Just glancing at the census, you can see a family’s composition; the age and race of its members; their places of birth; where they were living, including the specific address of the family in the year the census was taken. Additionally, depending on the census, you might discover occupations, educational status, how long a couple was married, how many children a woman gave birth to, immigration year, value of real estate, value of the estate, and how people in the household were related to one other – that’s just to name some of the significant genealogy research information that may be found in the census. If you want to know what detail is enumerated on each census, see About.com‘s coverage of this topic.

Background of the United States Census

Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution mandates that a federal census be taken at least every 10 years. Our Founding Fathers saw this as a way to represent each state in federal government equitably and to collect taxes impartially. The first census in the United States was conducted in 1790 and has occurred every 10 years since then. After a census is taken, individual names on the census are not released for 72 years for privacy reasons. How census are designed and what questions are asked reflect the current interest of the nation. Though reasons for taking the census have broadened, the same founding principles remain the same — to maintain the equitable representation and division of resources.

Suggestions for Using the Census for Family Research

These tips should help you use the census to your best advantage:

1. Family researchers will probably have information on most of their kin who were alive in the previous generation, so start with the most recent census and work your way back as you to link families from one generation to the next.

2. Use the census information, such as birth dates and places, to obtain vital record that will provide you with additional family information.

3. Employ a 3-page rule — look at the names of the census 3 pages before and 3 pages after your family’s listing in the census. If you find another family with the same surname, it could be these families are related. This is particularly true with census from the 1800s, since immigrant families tended to stay together and help each other “get on their feet.” You may also find the surnames of the spouses that children married in close proximity. For example, John Smith married Kathy Jones. The Jones may have lived a few blocks up the street from the Smiths.

4. Until about the 1940s, it was typical for children to take care of their parents in their “golden years.” You may find these golden parents listed as a border/lodger, servant/domestic, or other type of employee. It is possible that the surname of this mysterious person living with the family may be different from the head of household, so you may not know if this is a family member or not. In cases like these, use the lodgers’ name and details to search for additional records to ascertain if this is a family member or not. Even a sibling – such as a married sister who was divorced or widowed and ended up living with another sibling – may have been listed as “lodger” as opposed to “sister.”

5. Names can be a real issue when you are researching your family. There may have been possible nicknames or other name changes of which you are not aware. For example, the child “Jackie” on the 1920 census may be the adult ”Joaquin” on the 1940 census, or Sarah may be listed as “Sallie.” Visit the Common Nicknames page on the USGenWeb Project site for a list of names and their associated nicknames.

Up until the last 20 or 30 years, women traditionally took their husband’s surnames once they married. This makes it harder to trace women once they marry and leave their parents’ home. Even in rare instances when a woman did not take her spouse’s name, the census taker may still have listed her with her partner’s last name. Nancy at Record Click gives some good advice about searching for female family members in her Are You Looking for Ladies blog.

Naming variations can also knock you off track. For some advice on how to manage some of these variations, please see this find my past blog.

6. Unfortunately, the Great Depression caused many families to split up in order to search for work. If you can’t find certain family members on the 1930 or 1940 census, they may have moved into households of various family or friends. In the event parents were unable to care for their children, those children may have been placed in orphanages or become foster children. You will have to search the census for these missing family members individually, as you may find them in a variety of households or institutions.

7. When using online census, compare the digital image to the index and summary. The individual who indexed or summarized the record may have made mistakes in the spelling of names, or misreported key information.

8. If it looks like your family, but birthplaces and ages don’t seem right, it could still be your family! The accuracy of the information is only as good as the skills of the census taker in taking the correct information, as well as the accuracy of the person providing the information. A child, housekeeper, or lodger may not have given the correct details, instead estimating or guessing at birth dates, spelling of names, and other vital information. For the past as well as the present, there are also a variety of reasons why some people may think they have to deceive a census taker.

How to Access Free Census Records

1. Libraries

Most local, state, and university libraries keep census records in books and/or on microfilm. Through inter-library loan, you can order information your library may not have. The Oregon State Library has a large collection of genealogical related materials.

2. National and State Archives

You can search the National Archives website for the index numbers of documents and then view them at any of the National Archives locations throughout the country. Currently, the 1940 census is available to view and download on the National Archives “Getting Started” webpage.

State Archives also have local, state, and national census collections. Many have searchable online indexes so you can order the item over the phone or view it at the Archives. Keep in mind though, not all documents at the Archives will be indexed, so you may have to visit the Archives and search through relevant materials. The Oregon State Archives has a fantastic collection of census and other records, but check on hours of opetaions before you go.

3. LDS Family History Centers

Federal and state censuses are available at Family Search Centers or online at Family Search. The centers are free and open to anyone doing research. Different sites have different resources, but if what you are looking for is unavailable at your local center, you can order it from the main Utah site.

4. Local and State Genealogical and Historical Societies

Here at LCGS we have the following census:

1885 State Of Oregon

1905 State of Oregon: Linn County

1910 State of Oregon: Linn County

All available Federal Census through ancestry.com

Other lineage or historical societies in Oregon may have a center that you can visit to view and copy census records for their Oregon in Oregon. These societies, which sometimes charge a small annual or daily user fee, can be very helpful, so it’s worth checking out local societies in your area. The staff is usually composed of knowledgeable volunteers or professional genealogists who are eager to help you. They may also help online, through the mail and over the telephone.

I have started a blog so that we can all get to know each other a bit more, learn tips and tricks of researching our family trees, gather an understanding of the history of Linn County, and to present information on families of Linn County.

My goals with this blog are to interview members about their various genealogical undertakings, research the family history and other materials in the LGS library, and dig into the history of Linn County to help members develop a socio-historic picture of their families, and then post my findings on this blog. I envision a new blog once a month.

I know that you all are experts in many different areas related to families and the history of Linn County, and on how to conduct genealogy searches. I know that each one of you has something to offer that can be put in the blog for other LGS friends to read and gain something from. Knowing this, I am hoping that you will send me ideas for topics, or even specific information to be included in a blog, or maybe you would even like to write a post for our blog.  Just let me know!

A few bits of information about me: My mom encouraged my interest in family history so I started working on family genealogy when I was 16, that was 43 years ago! My mom, Mary Jane Landry Richards, would take me around New England to see presentations by Steven White and other Acadian and New England genealogists. Since then it has become something I have always been passionate about.  My career has been spent as a high school and university educator, and researcher for the United States government. My life has been spent in USA, Canada, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. With my youngest daughter getting ready to graduate from college, I decided about a year ago I should do what I always wanted to do,  that is, start my own research company.  I have put a lot of work into that and I am happy to say I was recently nominated as one of the Valley’s best new business! You can check out my site at the-research.com. I also do some contractual work with Record Click as a genealogy researcher and blogger. Besides volunteering with LGS, I also do volunteer work for Kijana Project, a project that assists children affected by HIV.

I am looking forward to meeting all the friends of LGS and I hope the blog becomes something we can all enjoy and learn something from!

Kim

Note: Some indexed items in the Obituary Collection are simply death or funeral notices rather than full obituraries.

To print the order form as a single page, highlight just the form and click Selection in the Page Range section of the Print dialog box. To display the Order Form in a printable view, click here (displays the Adobe Acrobat version of the form in a new browser window).

Print-ready Obituary Copy Order Form (PDF)

Richard “Dick” Milligan, 91, passed away Sunday, Nov. 20, due to a vehicle accident. Dick was a charter member of the Linn Genealogical Society and curator for the Linn County Museum in Brownsville for many years. He held all of the Genealogical Society’s executive positions and was the Society’s President for 20 years. In 1987, he started The Heritage Newsletter and was the editor for many years. “Richard was a dedicated member of our society, was always a champion for our causes, and he held the society together when times were tough,” current Society President, Betty Thorn said. “He was very good at helping people before there were computers. We owe him a great vote of thanks and gratitude.”

Dick helped hundreds of families researching family records in Linn County. He is known by genealogical researchers nationally for his efforts to document the history of families who traveled the Oregon Trail and took donation land claims in Linn County. Dick was honored in Boston a few years ago by the D.A.R. at a home that was bulit by his grandfather and reclaimed for history by the D.A.R.

Dick, along with friend John Miles, spent many years working on and publishing records of pioneering families in Linn County. According to a Democrat-Herald article from Jan. 13, 2005, the two men’s initial plan was to simply find out where a husband and wife were buried and not write any information about them. He told a reporter, “Only an idiot would tackle anything like that.” But the more he learned about those people, he became convinced the project would not be complete without more information. John Miles died about halfway through the project, but Milligan continued. The collection consists of 40 volumes and documents 1,245 families. The record copies used to created the collection are part of the M&M files in the Linn Research Room.

In the early years of the Linn Genealogical Society, Dick carried books about genealogy in the trunk of his car to share at Society meetings. That small collection was donated to the Society and has grown to the approximately 2,000 volumes now occupying the Linn Genealogy Research Room on the second floor of the Albany Public Library at 2450 14th Ave. S.E. A plaque recognizing Dick’s accomplishments has been mounted in the Research Room. The plaque reads: “This room is dedicated in the memory of Richard Milligan: Feb. 21, 1920 — Nov. 20, 2011.”

Shaded portion shows Linn County boundaries in 1941. Map copyrighted by the Oregon Historical Society. Grateful acknowledgement to Glenn Harrison, of the Linn County Historical Society who made them available for inclusion on this site.