{"id":1807,"date":"2012-10-02T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2012-10-02T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T15:37:56","slug":"has-anyone-ever-used-these-farm-work-records-from-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/has-anyone-ever-used-these-farm-work-records-from-portland.html","title":{"rendered":"Has Anyone Ever Used These \u2018Farm Work\u2019 Records from Portland?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 1918 Oregon newspaper has an interesting article about an effort in Portland, Oregon, to enlist farm worker volunteers to help save that year\u2019s crops, due to the labor shortage caused by WWI.<\/p>\n

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Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 14 July 1918, page 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old newspaper article reads: \u201cVacation helpers are going to have a big part in saving the Oregon farm crops this year.\u201d People from all walks of life volunteered in this area-wide effort to assist local farmers in saving that year\u2019s crops.<\/p>\n

As the historical newspaper article reports: \u201cMore than 500 have signed up the enlistment cards volunteering to devote their vacation time to beneficial service at going wages for the kind of work they may be assigned to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hmm\u2026those enlistment for farm work cards would be a handy genealogical resource for family historians researching ancestors from the World War I era.<\/p>\n

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Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 14 July 1918, page 14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Oregonian\u2019s<\/em> article showed the above illustration with the caption: \u201cFacsimile of enlistment cards actually signed by well-known citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

One question on the \u201cEnlistment for Farm Work\u201d form was: \u201cWould you \u2018rough it\u2019 with other help on [the] farm?\u201d<\/p>\n

A volunteer named A. Earl Kenworthy, a 31-year-old undertaker, answered: \u201cYou bet your boots.\u201d He was all-in to help.<\/p>\n

Did these Portland farm work records survive? Has anyone used them for genealogy research? Where are these old farm work records now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 1918 Oregon newspaper has an interesting article about an effort in Portland, Oregon, to enlist farm worker volunteers to help save that year\u2019s crops, due to the labor shortage caused by WWI. The old newspaper article reads: \u201cVacation helpers are going to have a big part in saving the Oregon farm crops this year.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[2502,2504,1129,1658,2233,2499,2505,2500,2503,12,465,5354,27,1929,1075,5370,1050,5426,5430,2501,2498,2496],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-a-earl-kenworthy","tag-enlistment-cards","tag-family","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-farm-work","tag-farm-work-records","tag-farm-workers","tag-farms","tag-genealogy","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-life","tag-newspapers","tag-or","tag-oregon","tag-people","tag-portland","tag-records","tag-research","tag-volunteers","tag-world-war-i","tag-wwi"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}