A Passion From the Start

At a Glance:
What:
Helpful Resources:
http://www.linncountygenealogysociety.org/

http://www.linncountyhistoricalsociety.org/

http://www.brownsvillemuseum.org/

Going back to the year 2000, when Arthur and Carol Langley became members and volunteers at the Genealogy Society. They both have a love for tracing family history not only for themselves but for other people. Arthur and Carol have enjoyed seeing people walk through the door at the society, they have enjoyed meeting and helping those people trace their family history. Arthur and Carol feel that their job is very rewarding in helping people find out their roots.

Around eight years ago a lady at the Genealogy Society fell ill and had to leave her work her passion behind. So Arthur felt a need to take over her place. Arthur now does her job as writing the Society’s newsletter every month. Now Arthur has wrote the newsletter for eight years, he takes pride in it.

The other part of my interesting job is putting together the obituaries so we can have documentation of historical deaths for the future generations. I obtain the obituaries from The Democrat Herald and put them into books for the society’s records. Arthur also works on the Donation land claims from the 1800s, in which takes time in researching. Arthur goes on to say I have a pretty important job here people depend on me for the deaths, and Arthur goes on saying its not depressing looking at all the death records all the time its just a part of life.

Arthur admits to the downside of the job the boring part is when my works all complete and no one enters those lonely doors. It gets lonely to not have anyone come in to get help on tracing family, look up records,maps and other types of historical documents and books.

Arthur and his wife Carol enjoy it here and feel at home. People can feel their passion for their work. The couple is interested in tracing their family roots more. Arthur mentions if he and his wife get bored on the job they just start doing research, and organize the books and try and keep busy.

The monthly newsletter that Arthur works on is called the Heritage. Arthur also digitizes the Linn county newspapers for Albany,Brownsville and Scio, this is for genealogy purposes and he has done this for several years.


Arthur has been working on a research project on restoring the 1890s census that was destroyed by water .So he has been keeping very busy going through old newspapers and family history records. In Arthur’s own words I have been working on this project for eight years now, it’s been a very long and drawn out project, a lot of digging and intensive researching.Arthur and Carol told me that the most fun and interesting part of their job is meeting people, through the decade we have met a lot of different people. Helping the people trace their family history is also the fun.








The other part of Arthur and Carol
My interesting enjoy seeing people
job walk through the door of the society
Arthur said is
Putting together
The obituaries
So we can have
Documentation
Of historicalDeaths for the future.