Lookups
and Resources
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You want to help others.
You have a copy or access to an Oklahoma Co.
resource.
You can do census lookups.
You can do newspaper lookups (articles,
obituaries, etc.).
SOURCE |
VOLUNTEER |
Lookups |
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Chronicles
of Oklahoma -
Vols. 1-13 Online |
ONLINE
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Edmond
Newspapers Obituaries Lookup Service [2008-10 this link is
not working
dating back to 1899, offers by phone lookup or email
was sponsored by
The Edmond Genealogical Society
above offer seems to
have been withdrawn - no longer list [09-2009]
Edmond Historical Society Museum - Research Library /
Genealogy Center
houses a research library which has over
5,000 books and periodicals, microfilm of the Edmond SUN and
genealogical computer center among many other research
materials. |
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Index to
Marriage Records, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Territory 1889-1907,
Special Publication No. 11, Oklahoma Genealogical Society,
1993. |
Karen
Wise |
Pearcy, Deone
K., Oklahoma death notice and obituary index to the Daily
Oklahoman / edited by Deone K. Pearcy, N. Dale
Talkington. Tehachapi, CA : T.P. Productions, c1992.
Volume I covers 1947 - 1961. Volume II covers the
years from 1962 - 1971. The listings are alphabetical
by year. The issue date, page and column number are
given.
Oklahoma
Historical Society Newspaper Archives also has a
copy. Archives staff has also compiled an obituary
index for the THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN for the years 1988-1991
and 1994. |
Volunteer
Needed |
Talkington, N.
Dale. Tributes of Blue: obituaries of Civil War Union
soldiers and sailors buried in Oklahoma / By N. Dale
Talkington, Deone K. Pearcy. Tehachapi, CA: T.P.
Productions, c1996. |
Volunteer
Needed |
Talkington, N. Dale. The
Long Blue Line: Civil War Union Soldiers and Sailors Buried
in Oklahoma. [The book is a collection of data on more
than 8,600 Civil war soldiers and sailors buried in
Oklahoma. Each veteran is listed alphabetically by surname
then by given name. Included for each soldier or sailor is
his name, rank, unit, birthdate and place, his date and city
or location of death, his age at death, his place of death
and city and cemetery of burial.] |
Pamela
Stephenson |
Bailey,
Elgin R., Index to probate, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 1895-1920
:indexed and case records abstracted from Probate index I
(1895-1949), District Court, Oklahoma County, OK, 1983,
Special Publication No. 7, Oklahoma
Genealogical Society, 1983. |
Volunteer
Needed |
Porter,
John H., Probate
records and wills of Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, 1889-1908,
Call No. 976.638 P2p |
Volunteer
Needed |
Index-1890
census Union veterans, their widows and U.S.
soldiers, Union soldiers' home and cemetery records
index (Civil War, wars with Spain and Mexico, Army nurses,
and National Guard) Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla.: Oklahoma
Genealogical Society, 1970. 53 p. ; 28 cm. (Oklahoma
Genealogical Society. Special publication ; no. 3) |
Pamela
Stephenson
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Index
to Applications for Pensions from the State of
Oklahoma
submitted by Confederate Soldiers,
Sailors and Their Widows.
Oklahoma Genealogical Society, Special
Publication 2, 1969. |
View
or download the index (332K
Adobe PDF file) |
Jackson,
Ronald Vern, Oklahoma 1890 Special Census of Veterans
[note: may be same book as Oklahoma
Genealogical Society book above] |
Volunteer
Needed |
Index to
microfilm rolls of the Oklahoma tract books in the Jennie L.
McCutcheon research room of the Lawton Public Library,
Lawton, Oklahoma / compiled by Southwestern Oklahoma
Genealogy Society. Lawton, Okla.: The Society, 1984. 72 v.
indexed in 22: maps : 28 cm. |
Volunteer
Needed |
R. L.
Polk & Company - City Directories
A very helpful tool in locating your ancestors between
census years and after the census that is currently
available. City directories often provide additional
information about individuals such as place of employment
and name of spouse. Many of these directories are available
at the Oklahoma Historical Society. List
of Oklahoma Directories on Microfilm in the Microform
Reading Room at the Library of Congress.
Little reading material to help you gain a better
understanding of the importance of City Directories to your
research.
City
Directories: Windows On The Past
City Directories and Newspapers
City Directories |
Volunteer
Needed |
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Books
and indexes online -
including biographies |
Online |
Indian
Pioneer Papers -
index
and some interviews |
Online |
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