Are you interested in local history? Are there mysteries about your neighborhood, home, or family that you've always been curious about?

Mysteries in Our Backyard is a new research project that encourages YOU to research these local mysteries!

Participation is now open for registration! Visit the Mysteries in Our Backyard website to claim your Jackson County mystery now!

How to Use Sources at SOHS, Feb. 4  9:30-11, SOHS Research Library

This week we will meet with Pat Harper, Library Manager at the Southern Oregon Historical Society’s Research Library in Medford. She will explain how the SOHS collection of thousands of photographs,
manuscripts, oral histories, maps and vertical files can help you solve your mystery.
Moderators will provide a time for participant’s individual inquiries.

Finding the Records You Need, Feb 25  9:30-11, Library/Carp. Room

“I Can’t Find the Records I Need. Help!” This is the class to help you find those original records that will add so much to your search results. Melinda Henningfield will discuss how to locate census, land, court, military, immigration/naturalization, church, newspaper, city directory, business, and vital records and most importantly how to document what you find. Your questions will be welcome in a sharing time at the end.

How to Use Library Sources, Mar 10 9:30-11 Library Ref. Desk

The public library is often overlooked as a source of local history. Julie Drengson, reference librarian at the Medford Branch of the Jackson County Library System will show us how to find the resources at that branch and how to use newspaper microfilm as a research tool. Time will be available for individual questions about your mystery.

How to Use Cemetery Sources, Apr 21 9:30-11, Jacksonville Cem.

Many pieces of information about a person or situation can be found in cemetery records that include the gravesites themselves. Dick Siedleski will help us learn what we can from a visit to a cemetery