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From: "Nathan Haines Sr." <>
Subject: Re: [GFO] WA marriage records???
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:42:57 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: 6667


Hi,
I have not had much luck finding WA marriage
records. The Gresham FHC has a WA marriage index but
it is on microfiche and it does not start until 1968.
Oregon death certificates over 50 years old are
all kept at the State Archives in Salem. You can get
them for 25 cents there. There is an on-line OR death
index that covers deaths in OR from 1903 to 1998. Just
type Oregon death index into Google Search Engine and
it will bring up the link to get you to that OR death
index.
OR marriage records are difficult to hunt down.
Maybe not as hard as WA records though. The Forum has
the State of OR marriage index on microfilm. It only
covers from around 1905 to about the mid 1920s or
something like that. There is a huge gap in the OR
marriage index that is missing. There is no State
marriage index from the 1920s to the 1960s or
something like that. The Forum has the State marriage
index on microfiche for the newer OR marriages. A lot
of libraries have what there is of the OR marriage
indexes at their libraries. Otherwise you just have to
contact a County office and see if they will check
their records for you as far as I know. There are a
lot of marriage index books at various places. The
Forum has a lot of marriage index books for various
years for various counties in OR.
In a perfect world there would be an on-line
marriage index site for everyone in the world from
Adam and Eve until now! :-] You probably noticed
already that we are not in a perfect world.
Good luck finding marriages in OR and WA.
Nathan

--- Carole Hammond <> wrote:
> Now that we've established that WA death records are
> only a short walk away at the local LDS FHC....where
> can I find the WA marriage records? Are they also
> on film in the LDS library, aka FHC?
>
> How about the OR deaths and marriages?
>
> Thanks, Carole
>
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