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Lebanon is the "City that Friendliness Built," but we are also home to the World's Largest Strawberry Shortcake, which is served yearly at the annual Strawberry Festival. The festival has been held every year since 1909 and is celebrated the first week in June.Lebanon is located along the Santiam River in western Oregon near the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Linn County.
Lebanon
Genealogical Society
626 Second Avenue
Lebanon, Oregon 97355
The society meets monthly on the first Friday of the month, 12:30 p.m. at the Lebanon Senior Center, 65B Academy Square, Lebanon. Dues are $10.00 per year. Newcomers are always welcome!
Contacts are Colleen Cook 928-8926 or Pat Dunn 258-5062.
Lebanon Genealogical Society Meetings and Other News:
Upcoming 2008 meetings:
Lebanon Genealogical Society meets at the Lebanon Senior Center, 65B Academy Street, Lebanon
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 12:30 p.m.
Jan Boucot
Will do a reading from the book
“Come Hell or High Water” My First 25 Years , By Florence (Fromherz) Gross
Florence Fromherz is a descendant of the Kings from Kings Valley. Her family moved to the Rock Hill area where they resided in a home on the Robert C. Miller Donation Land Claim. Jan, who resides in this same house, will read about some of the hard times and some of the funny tales of the Fromherz family as written by Florence.
Everyone is welcome.
For more information: Call Colleen Cook, 928-8926 or Pat Dunn, 258-5062
ALBANY: Linn Geneaological Society will have Connie Lenzen speaking on Adoption and Other Missing Persons on May 3rd at the Albany Library, Waverly St., at 1 p.m.
June 6--
May Garland will speak June 6, on a bicycle trip she and her husband took in 2006. “Across America by Tandem Bicycle” began in Anacortes WA to Worcester MA, for 3,668 miles.
July 12--
We will be having our July picnic on Sat. 12th so we don’t get in the 4th of July events and family members can go.
NEWS: School History - Artifacts Wanted - Click the link for details.
Things you will find on our site on the Resource Page:
Research Aids and Books for Sale
Research
available from society members
Resources
in our genealogy room at the library
Online Cemetery Records
Census
Records
Online
Research Data
School
Records
Military
Lists
Query/Obituary/Surname
Boards
Linn County
Mailing Lists
Linn County
Resources at the Oregon State Archives
Visit:
Asa McCully and the Wagon
Train of 1852, a new website which is growing every day.
Saltmarsh
Genealogy - a wonderful site with tons of Saltmarsh information, hosted
by Mike Saltmarsh.
Parrish Family in Oregon
website
Century
Tel's New Lebanon Community Information site.
Family History Center in Lebanon
- LDS Church
1995 5th Street
Lebanon, Oregon 97355
541-451-3992
Hours are Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Evenings: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 7-9 p.m.
Funeral Homes in the Area:
Huston-Jost, 86 W. Grant, Lebanon, 97355, 541-258-2123
Workman & Steckley, 1443 Long St., Sweet Home, 97386, 541-367-2891
Aasum, 805 S. Ellsworth, Albany, 97321, 541-926-5541
Fisher, 306 Washington St., Albany, 97321, 541-928-3349
Questions or suggestions about this site may be sent to the Webmaster of the Lebanon Genealogical Society, Jan Phillips.
1997-2007,
Lebanon Genealogical Society
Site originally created July 1997 by Janice Phillips
Last updated
April 27, 2008 5:45 AM

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