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<DIV>Oregon Adoption Records are now open. My father, born in 1945 in Portland was adopted. He ordered a copy of his original birth certificate and received it. I have found his biological family already. I don't know when you last tried, but it may be worth checking into again.</DIV>
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<DIV>Lisa </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:Bill-R@SEA-edu.org">William P. Russell</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Monday, August 04, 2003 21:34:12</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: [or-roots] Helping make an active list!</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Don't hold out much hope to get adoption records in Oregon. I was adopted</DIV>
<DIV>in Portland in 1945 by my mother's brother when I was orphaned at age 12.</DIV>
<DIV>By order of the court in Multnomah County, my birth records in Yreka</DIV>
<DIV>California were changed and the originals sealed. There is some Oregon law</DIV>
<DIV>about preserving the anonymity of the birth parents to avoid the "shame" of</DIV>
<DIV>giving up a baby for adoption. This law has been perverted to prevent the</DIV>
<DIV>disclosure of information where no shame could possibly be involved; like my</DIV>
<DIV>case where both my birth mother and birth father were dead when I was</DIV>
<DIV>adopted.</DIV>
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<DIV>From: <<A href="mailto:lindac-s@juno.com">lindac-s@juno.com</A>></DIV>
<DIV>To: <<A href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>></DIV>
<DIV>Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:02 PM</DIV>
<DIV>Subject: [or-roots] Helping make an active list!</DIV>
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<DIV>> Hi All -</DIV>
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<DIV>> I'm a new subscriber with a frustrating dead end. My great grandmother,</DIV>
<DIV>Ruby Willeta Clarke, was raised by her grandparents Frederic A. and Louisa</DIV>
<DIV>A. Clarke in Gresham, OR. Ruby was born 12-12-1884 in Mt. Tabor, OR to Ida</DIV>
<DIV>Louise Clarke and William J. Sewell (or Sewall). Ida left/divorced William</DIV>
<DIV>(not sure which) and left Ruby with her adopted parents, the Clarkes.</DIV>
<DIV>Herein lies the problem: I don't know where Ida Louise and her sister</DIV>
<DIV>Annie/Anna M. came from. I don't know if they are biological sisters.. I</DIV>
<DIV>do know that both were disinherited from their adopted parents' wills; Ida</DIV>
<DIV>later married a Henri ApJohn (born in Canada in 1865, medical student in</DIV>
<DIV>Portland) and lived in Yuma Arizona briefly; Annie married a James Mernah,</DIV>
<DIV>whereabouts unknown.</DIV>
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<DIV>> What I would love to find are the adoption records for Ida and/or Anna.</DIV>
<DIV>The Clarkes were settled in Gresham by 1865; Frederic was quite successful,</DIV>
<DIV>owned lots of land, was associated with IOOF, etc. etc. But he's not my</DIV>
<DIV>direct line. They lost their only natural child Cora Bell to brain fever in</DIV>
<DIV>1871 and probably adopted the two girls after that, but before 1878 (the</DIV>
<DIV>date of Frederic's will). I checked with Oregon Archives and they do not</DIV>
<DIV>have adoption records that far back.</DIV>
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<DIV>> >From various bits and pieces I understand that William J. Sewell/Sewall</DIV>
<DIV>may have been English and lived in the Gladstone/Milwaukie area; Ida was</DIV>
<DIV>born around 1867, maybe in Oregon. Any suggestions? If there is anyone in</DIV>
<DIV>the Multnomah county area that feels like poking into this one, I can offer</DIV>
<DIV>my look-up services at the National Archives here in Seattle.</DIV>
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<DIV>> Thanks in advance -</DIV>
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<DIV>> Linda Chalker-Scott</DIV>
<DIV>> Seattle, WA</DIV>
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