[or-roots] Adoption Records

[Verdena Veelle]

The laws concerning adoption records in Oregon were recently changed.  Check out website
http://www.cnn.com/2000/LAW/05/31/oregon.adoption/ for more information.  I know
personally of one adoptee who has found her birth mother after these laws were changed.
The records just do not go as far back as the mid 1800's however.
Verdena Veelle
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William P. Russell" <Bill-R at SEA-edu.org>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Helping make an active list!


: Don't hold out much hope to get adoption records in Oregon.  I was adopted
: in Portland in 1945 by my mother's brother when I was orphaned at age 12.
: By order of the court in Multnomah County, my birth records in Yreka
: California were changed and the originals sealed.  There is some Oregon law
: about preserving the anonymity of the birth parents to avoid the "shame" of
: giving up a baby for adoption. This law has been perverted to prevent the
: disclosure of information where no shame could possibly be involved; like my
: case where both my birth mother and birth father were dead when I was
: adopted.