How to Register Vital Events

Certificate of Live Birth Information

• Instructions on how to complete an EBRS Certificate of Live Birth (Word)
• Instructions on how to complete an EBRS Certificate of Live Birth (pdf)
• Instructions on how to complete an Out of Facility Certificate of Live Birth (paper version) (pdf)
• Parent Worksheet (updated 9/29/08)(Word)
• Parent Worksheet (updated 9/29/08)(pdf)
• Parent Worksheet Spanish (updated 2/13/09)(Word)
• Parent Worksheet Spanish (updated 2/13/09)(pdf)
• Facility Worksheet (Word)
• Facility Worksheet (pdf)

Paternity Information  

• Paternity Flow Chart (pdf)
• Voluntary Acknowledgement of Paternity Guidelines Instructions 45-21 (pdf)
• Voluntary Acknowledgement of Paternity Guidelines Instructions 45-31 (updated 2/20/09)(pdf)
• OVERS Instructions for Online Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity 45-31 (pdf)
• Hints for Completing Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity 45-31 (updated 2/20/09)(pdf)

Marriage Information  

• Instructions for Completing the Marriage Form (pdf)
• Officiants' Instructions for Completing their part of Marriage Form (pdf)
• Information Sheet for "Last Name Taken After Marriage" and form (updated 12/30/08)(pdf)

Domestic Partnership Instructions  

• Form Instructions for the Public (added 2/20/09)(pdf)
• Form Instructions for the County (added 2/20/09)(pdf)
• Domestic Partnership Form (added 2/20/09)(pdf) Note: Must be printed on 8-1/2"x14" paper.

Fetal Death Instructions

• Instructions for completing the Oregon Report of Fetal Death (pdf)

Pregnancy Outcome - Instructions & Flow Chart 

• Pregnancy - Records and Reports Tree (pdf)

Death Record Information and Forms  

• Letter to Medical Certifiers (pdf) and Medical Information (pdf) on the Oregon Certificate of Death
• Reporting Causes of Death for the Elderly (pdf)
• Pneumonia Without an Underlying Cause of Death (pdf)
• Completing a Cause of Death Statement: Basic Concepts (pdf)
• Certifying External Causes of Death (pdf)
• How to Describe a Motor Vehicle Accident (pdf)

Help with the Death Certificate

• Death Certificate Instructions (Deaths after 12/31/05) (pdf)
• Race Status List (pdf)
• Education  and Marital Category List (pdf)
• Death Certificate Worksheet (pdf)
• Death Certificate Worksheet (Word, revise it and print it on your own letterhead)
• Vital Records Supplies Order Form (pdf)

Additonal instructions available:

• Definitions of Live Birth, Fetal Death, and Induced Termination of Pregnancy (pdf)

For Deaths that Occurred Prior to January 1, 2006

• Instructions for completing Oregon Death Certificates (pdf)
  • Instructions for completion of Medical Portion (pdf) of Oregon Death Certificates
• Physicians' Handbook on Medical Certification of Death (1.4 Mb pdf)
  From the National Center for Health Statistics, (PHS) 87-1108. 36 pp. (Reprinted 2003)

Funeral Directors' Numeric Billing List

Deaths registered with Oregon Vital Records by county location of funeral home

Death occurred in:	2009 (Excel)
	2008 (Excel)
	2007 (Excel)
	2006 (pdf)
	2005 (Excel)