<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000'><P>Immediate family members can get death certificates from vital records, if you are not an immediate family member you can get the record but you must have a noterized letter from an immediate family member, my wife just went through that with her cousin who wanted to get a death certificate for my wife's father.</P>
<P>anyone who is not an immediate family member has to wait 50 years, other then what i mentioned above.</P>
<P>forgive my typing I got a steroid injection in my shoulder and had a reaction to it so my arm does not function well right now.</P>
<P>Glen Jones Portland<BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier@earthlink.net><BR>To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR>Sent: Thursday, January 7, 2010 12:17:42 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<BR>Subject: [or-roots] PS: wait 50 years death certificates<BR><BR>It is easiest (and the least expensive) for immediate family to get them <BR>through the funeral director from the county medical examiner before it <BR>is filed with the state.<BR><BR>Bill<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots mailing list<BR>or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<BR>http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots<BR></P></div></body></html>