Thanks to an index of the Oregon death certificates at Ancestry and then the wonderful people at the Oregon State Archives, I finally found a copy of my gr.gr. uncle's death certificate. He had disappeared from Portland circa 1923. It turns out he died at the Eastern Oregon State Hospital in 1933, having been a resident of the institution for a little over 4 years. I understand that the mental hospital was closed in the 1980's and became a prison. Does anyone on the list know what happened to the patient records after the change? I would like to see what his diagnosis was and generally just snoop through them - no genealogist ever has too much information! Theresa Liewer Ankeny,Iowa