Series documents the recording of births by the county.
Records include certificates, affidavits for correction, registers, delayed entry for births and corrected entries. Birth records were not required by the state of Oregon until 1903 when the state began to officially register births. Currently these records are filed with the State Registrar, Vital Statistics Section of the Health Division. Birth records have been inventoried through 1920. For information concerning more recent records, contact the State Registrar.