Cottage Grove Genealogical Society

12/08/2025

On this day, our military was put to test at Pearl Harbor! The devastation was immense! Heroism was shown in so many ways and the a t of aggression put our country in WWII.

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12/03/2025

If you have ancestors from New York, here is some big news, a death index!! Reclaim The Records is doing great work:

Search more than ten million historical records of people who died in New York State, from 1880 to 2017

11/29/2025

Our Community has been helping others for well over a century.

In April of 1945 we participated in a United Nations Clothing Drive. Don't you love how the organizers brought the effort to the attention of everyone!

For more about the people of Cottage Grove and how our history was formed by those who lived here before us visit our Ellis Memorial Research Library at 700 East Gibbs Avenue, we are open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday noon to 5:00 p.m.
We have Ancestry.com-Library Edition and Newspapers.com-Oregon Collection on our Patron computers too.

11/27/2025

11/25/2025

We were chosen to be the repository for the local newspaper archives from the Sentinel! If you would like to look through the original newspapers email info@cggenealogy.org for an appointment.
When recently looking through the 1968 newspapers with another member we found this great photo.
The local Partners In History are also fundraising to digitize more of the Sentinel's, if you are interested in helping with that effort, read about it here: https://cggenealogy.org/projects/help-digitize-the-cottage-grove-sentinel/

11/23/2025

Please check out our continued the efforts of the Partners In History to digitize more of the local newspapers.

We at CGGS use newspapers everyday as we research and having them digitized makes finding social items, engagements, marriages, birth announcements, land transactions and what is going on through the decades.

Right now you can word search up to February of 1957, we have an order in to digitize up to the 1970s, but we need your help to digitize the 1970s and beyond.

The microfilm is starting to deteriorate and it is important that we get these treasured newspapers digitized for now and future generations.

You can also mail your donations directly to our Partner In History: Cottage Grove Museum, P.O. Box 142, Cottage Grove, OR 97424. Make sure to put "Newspaper Digitizing" on the memo line of your check.

If you want to browse the original newspapers, contact us as we are the repository for the local newspapers going back to 1899!

Thank you!

November 23, 2025November 23, 2025 admin Help Digitize the Cottage Grove Sentinel The Cottage Grove Genealogical Society and its fellow Partners in History are working to raise money to digitize the Cottage Grove Sentinel newspaper. The Friends of the Cottage Grove Library have generously offered to...