[or-roots] Birth Certificates

[SUZANNE THOMAS]

I have found some birth records at the county level.  I use the Yamhill 
County Museum to get birth, death, and marriage records.

suzanne in Newberg


>From: barbhg1221 at comcast.net
>Reply-To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
>Subject: RE: [or-roots] Birth Certificates
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:34:54 +0000
>
>In Oregon birth certificates are not available to the general public 
>through the State Archives for 100 years.  The nice thing about delayed 
>birth certificates is that they are available 100 years after the person's 
>birth not 100 years after they were filed.  Sometimes delayed birth 
>certificates were filed as part of the process of proving a person's age in 
>applying for Social Security.  Check not only for the certificate but also 
>for the "evidence" that was filed.  It may have been a sibling or other 
>relative attesting to the person's age.
>Barbara Herring
>
>
>-------------- Original message --------------
>From: glenkc7mbm at comcast.net
>
>If you have not checked, sometimes a delayed birth certificate is filed, 
>and would be done in whatever state the person was living in at the time 
>and it could be many years after the person's birth, My father was born in 
>1883  but a birth certificate was not filed until 20 years later.
>Glen
>
>--
>Glen A. Jones