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Searching for Oregon birth records, Oregon census records, Oregon marriage records, or Oregon death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Oregon Genealogy Databases
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Oregon Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Oregon vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Oregon vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Oregon ancestors using Oregon census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Oregon Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Oregon) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: $15.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since January 1903. Some earlier records for the city of Portland since approximately 1880 are available from the Oregon State Archives, 1005 Broadway, NE, Salem, OR 97310. Additional copies of the same record ordered at the same time are $12.00 each. Money order should be made payable to Oregon Health Division. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (503) 731-4095. This will be a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at Oregon Health Division. Event: Heirloom Birth Cost of copy: $28.00 Address: Remarks: Presentation style calligraphy certificate suitable for framing. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: $15.00 Address: Remarks: Records since January 1906. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: County Clerk in county where license was issued. County Clerks also have some records before 1906. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: $15.00 Address: Remarks: Records since 1925. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: County Circuit Court Clerk in county where divorce was granted. County Clerks also have some records before 1925. |
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