Oregon Vital Records
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Remarks: Check or money order should be made payable to Oregon Health Division. Call or visit the Web Site to verify current fees. Additional copies of records ordered at the same time are $12 each. You can also order with a credit card via phone, fax or Internet for a fee of $25.Web site: Oregon
Vital Records
Event: Birt hDates: From July 1903Cost of copy: $15.00Comments: Access to birth records
in Oregon is restricted for 100 years to the registrant, immediate family
members and legal representatives. If you are not a family member you can
send your request with a notarized letter of consent signed by a family
member. With your request, include as much as you can of the
following: the name on the birth record
being requested, date of birth, place of birth (city or county), father's full name,
(last, first, middle), mothers full name, including her maiden name, your
relationship to the person whose certificate is being requested, your
purpose for needing the copy, your daytime telephone number with area code,
your handwritten signature and complete return mailing address. * Some earlier records for the city of Portland (from approximately 1880) and for a few individual counties are available from the Oregon State Archives, 1005 Broadway, NE, Salem, OR 97310. Some of the indexes to the records are available for searching online. You can also search
online: Event: Death Dates: From July 1903Cost of copy: $15.00Comments: Access
to death records in Oregon is restricted for 50 years to family members
and legal representatives. If you are not a family member you can send
your request with a notarized letter of consent signed by a family member. With your request, include as much as you can of the
following: the name on the death record
being requested, date of death, place of death (city or county), your
relationship to the person whose certificate is being requested, your
purpose for needing the copy, your daytime telephone number with area code,
your handwritten signature and complete return mailing address. * Noncertified copies of death records older than 50 years are also available from the Oregon State Archives. Event: Marriage Dates: From 1906 Cost of copy: $15.00
Comments: Access
to marriage
records in Oregon is restricted for 50 years to family
members and legal representatives. If you are not a family member you can
send your request with a notarized letter of consent signed by a family
member. With your request, include as much as you can of the
following: the full names on the marriage
record
being requested (including maiden name of the wife), date
of marriage, place of
marriage
(city or county), your
relationship to the person whose certificate is being requested, your
purpose for needing the copy, your daytime telephone number with area code,
your handwritten signature and complete return mailing address. * Marriage records, including some records prior to 1906, may be requested from the County Clerk in the county which issued the license. A few county marriage offices have sent their oldest marriage records to the Oregon State Archives (including a few indexes which are available for searching online).Event: Divorce Dates: From 1906Cost of copy: $15.00Comments: Access to divorce records in Oregon is restricted for 50 years to family members and legal representatives. If you are not a family member you can send your request with a notarized letter of consent signed by a family member. With your request, include as much as you can of the following: the full names on the divorce record being requested, date of divorce, place of divorce (city or county), your relationship to the person whose certificate is being requested, your purpose for needing the copy, your daytime telephone number with area code, your handwritten signature and complete return mailing address.Application for divorce record * Genealogists are better off ordering copies of divorce decrees from the County Court that granted the divorce than from the State Vital Records office. The State Office issues a summary document called a divorce certificate. A divorce certificate does not have all the information contained in the decree so is not as useful for genealogists. County clerks may also have some records available prior to 1906.Event: Adoption regon Adoption Search & Support Resources
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