Source Information

Ancestry.com. Oregon, U.S., Divorce Indexes, 1961-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Oregon Divorce Records, 1961-1985. Oregon Center for Health Statistics, Portland, Oregon.

About Oregon, U.S., Divorce Indexes, 1961-1985

This database is an index to more than 300 thousand divorces that were filed in Oregon from 1961-1985. Information that may be found in this database includes:

  • Husband's name
  • Wife's name
  • Divorce date
  • Divorce county
  • Certificate number

The information found in this database can be used to locate your relative in the original records that this index references. Usually more information is available in the records themselves than is found in an index. For example, divorce records may list marriage information, birth information, or the cause for divorce in addition to the information provided in this index.

Divorce certificates (not decrees) dating from 1925 statewide are held by the Oregon Center for Health Statistics.