[or-roots] Oregon birth records

[Leslie Chapman]

As Pat said, you may (emphasis on the may) be able to get delayed birth
records from the county of birth. This will depend on a lot of maybes, did
they have any reason to get a cert, ie did they get a social security card
or some such which required proof of birth date. Also some counties may have
already disposed of thier old records without making any attempt to archive
the information. That is entirely up to the discretion of the various county
recorders.

As to the death certs; after 1954 you have to be the person, or have a legal
connection to that person that entitles you to the information. Also, I
think that the same rules apply to birth certs, the differance being the
time is one hundred years before they become public info. Most counties
probably follow those rules too. I know In Coos county I have had no luck
with birth info. The Courthouse told me to go to Coos Bay annex for any
birth info, at the annex they looked at me like I had two heads, and
informed me that they had a very small database of records for something
like 1924 to 1926 or some such. All I remember for sure is it was a time
frame that did me no good as non of my people I needed info on were in it.

Somewhere on the Oregon State Archives web site is a link to a site that
gives you the contact info for individual counties. If you contact the
county courthouse of the county they were born in you may find the info.

As Pat mentioned, counties have changed, if you think this is an issue I can
give you a link to the Archive site that covers that topic. Also, you need
to consider where these folks were living when they obtained their delayed
birth certs. I know some of my relatives obtained their certs in Coos
County, and yet I got copies of their records from Douglas County, as that
was the county of birth. Go figure.

Les C

PS. Well I see David already covered most of this, but if your email is as
spotty as mine it won't hurt for me to send this anyway. Saw three answers
to an email night before last on this list, but never saw the original post.

LC

Subject: [or-roots] Oregon birth records


I made a trip to the Oregon State archives friday and got copies of some
death certificates and some marriage certificates.  I wanted to get some
Oregon birth certificates but was told they did not have any.  They also
said that Oregon did not start recording births until 1903 and that there
may also be "delayed" birth records.

Where is the best place to get copies (not official) of birth certificates
for Oregon?  I want to get my parents (1926), grandparents (1890-1905).

Also, the only carry death certs up to 1954.  where can I get death certs
after that?

thanks

Suzanne in Newberg

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