A little more regarding the death certificates in Oregon --- They are available from the State archives, in Salem, for .25 plus postage if they are over 50 years old. You will need to contact them, with the following information. Date of death if you have it, or at least a close time period. place of death--if you know it-- as they are filed by county and date Complete name of person Do not use the certificate number as that is NOT how they are filed. Volunteers do the work so be patient as they get lots of requests. Certificates less than 50 years are available from the Dept. of Health in Portland, Oregon, The last I heard they were $17.50 --there may now be some restrictions as to who can obtain them but I have not heard of any so far. Also writing to the undertaker, if you know who handled the services often gives your even more information, including pall bearers, who ordered the service, who paid for it, relatives and in some cases who sent flowers etc. Depends on the undertaker, I have had various responses. The State archives has a web site. It does not have the death index on it,however does have some other indexes. Also if you have access to Ancestry.com, they have the Oregon death index on it. State Archives sites, also address and information http://genealogy.state.or.us/--- this one brings up the index http://genealogy.state.or.us/start.lasso?location=search this one brings up the various other files offered at the achieves. Clara

yes and the certificates are very easy to get. I got a couple this past month ----- Original Message ----- From: clara m foster<mailto:clarahubcap@juno.com> To: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com<mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> ; orwashin@rootsweb.com<mailto:orwashin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [ORWASHIN] Portland Cemeteries A little more regarding the death certificates in Oregon --- They are available from the State archives, in Salem, for .25 plus postage if they are over 50 years old. You will need to contact them, with the following information. Date of death if you have it, or at least a close time period. place of death--if you know it-- as they are filed by county and date Complete name of person Do not use the certificate number as that is NOT how they are filed. Volunteers do the work so be patient as they get lots of requests. Certificates less than 50 years are available from the Dept. of Health in Portland, Oregon, The last I heard they were $17.50 --there may now be some restrictions as to who can obtain them but I have not heard of any so far. Also writing to the undertaker, if you know who handled the services often gives your even more information, including pall bearers, who ordered the service, who paid for it, relatives and in some cases who sent flowers etc. Depends on the undertaker, I have had various responses. The State archives has a web site. It does not have the death index on it,however does have some other indexes. Also if you have access to Ancestry.com, they have the Oregon death index on it. State Archives sites, also address and information http://genealogy.state.or.us/<http://genealogy.state.or.us/>--- this one brings up the index http://genealogy.state.or.us/start.lasso?location=search<http://genealogy.state.or.us/start.lasso?location=search> this one brings up the various other files offered at the achieves. Clara ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORWASHIN-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ORWASHIN-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message