We finally got the newspapers brought upstairs so there was room to sort through them and inventory what we have. It took about fourteen hours of work, but it is done! Once the information is typed up we will share the newspapers in the collection. We did find a 1928 Scappoose Register and two 1931 Scappoose Independent papers. There is one tote of local Columbia County papers, one tote of the Bicentennial papers, three totes of Oregonians and one tote of Oregon Journals. While you can access some of them online the copies are not always easy to read. Most of these papers concern major national and world events. The motivation to finish this dirty and time consuming work are the last two collections to now process. We will be working on the scrap books and church collection in the coming month. Those will contain some of the heart of this community. I hope to close out the processing of the museum collections within the year of my first beginning the work.
September 17, 2017
Two months later it is time to post this and finish up the inventory record of the Newspaper Collection at the Watts House in Scappoose, Oregon.
Original post July 17, 2017.
Today I finished sorting six totes of newspapers at the Watts house. I will post the lists on my blog in a few days. The Oregonian is mostly in three totes (1943-2009) and the Oregon Journal is in one tote (1923-1982). There is one tote holding mostly Oregon Bicentennial papers (1959-1970) and one tote of local Columbia County papers (1928-1985). It was a dirty, messy job, and now I need to type up the lists. All that is left to sort through are the church records and the scrapbooks. Karen and Dorothy have been very supportive of this work. It is fun to share with each other our findings of each day. We are almost ready to start scanning pictures, articles and other important papers. The notebooks containing our findings are on the shelf and ready for use.
The church books were delivered to me for listing and making brief notes from them. That totally has distracted me for weeks. The typing of lists will wait as I want to return the books as soon as possible.
Its been ten days since I posted on facebook. Just what have I been up to? Three major genealogy projects. The most interesting is reviewing the church books from the Watts house. There are forty books in all shapes and sizes. They begin with the very founding of the church in 1890 and end in 1984. There are baptisms, marriages and even some deaths. Pages and pages of minutes, lists and lists of members of the various groups. Priceless books that have been buried in the basement for decades. I am 3/4 through and the current book for the Ladies Aid society of 1924-1927 is the most interesting. Now back to work!
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