Portwood Endicott Gazaway Logston

Something dramatic has happened to Gazaway miss-spellings in the last five years.  These are real miss-spellings, not spelling variations or changes in names.  The miss-spellings are created by technology, specifically scanners and optical character recognition.  Many original documents have been scanned and placed on the internet without editing.  A single scanned document may have ten different spellings of the same word.  For example, The name Portwood in a single cemetery record may be scanned as portwood, ortwood, partwood, partwool, etc.

http://www.oregongenealogy.com/columbia/index/surname-p-q-r.htm

Columbia County, Oregon Cemetery Records Index

http://www.oregongenealogy.com/columbia/rainier/surname-p.htm

Columbia County Oregon History and Genealogy

Rainier Obituaries

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