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From: Clyde M Senger <>
Subject: Re: [GFO] City of Portland Death Index
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:42:24 -0800


How do we know if the person really died in Portland or were only passing
through?
Also, apparently some who died in Portland (1909) are not on the state
death index. Is that true for all Portland deaths until 1917?
Clyde Senger

On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 18:53:58 -0800 "Stanley R. Clarke"
<> writes:
> In response to the statement about the Portland Death Index "Also,
> you could try the City of Portland death index that is if they died
> in
> Portland."
>
> I have done a great deal of work in the Portland Death Index over
> the
> past 15 years. Death Index is a misnomer for lack of a better way
> to
> describe it. The City of Portland passed an ordinance that "any
> dead
> human body being transported within the city limits shall have a
> City of
> Portland Death Certificate issued as a transit permit."
>
> I have located a person who died in Long Beach, Washington and is
> buried
> in Gresham, Oregon in the index. Also, a number of years ago when
> I
> spoke of the index and what is really is, an individual in the
> audience
> became real excited and went to the index and found the record of
> her
> grandmother who died in Alaska and is buried in Boise, Idaho! A
> few
> years later I found the certificate along with a certificate from
> Alaska
> filed at the State Archives.
>
> This index has been transcribed by the State Archives and is
> available
> on their web site. It is down this evening, but check it out
> tomorrow.
> http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/genealogy.htm
>
> Stanley R. Clarke,
> Past President and Program Chair, Genealogical Forum of Oregon
> Genealogical Lecturer and Author. Member, Oregon Pioneer Cemetery
> Commission
>
>
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