The Oregon Indigent Burial Fund pays for disposition those who have died indigent or unclaimed. Oregon, alone among the states, created the fund in 1993, financed by a death-certificate filing fee. Since 2000, the fund has paid for thousands of cremations of unclaimed bodies.
This searchable database, going back to January 2000, lists the names of those whose final arrangements were covered by the fund. Most of the unclaimed were cremated immediately after the required 10-day wait to look for next of kin. The database has allowed family members to find out what happened to missing relatives. The database has been updated for 2017-18 names.
-- The Oregonian/OregonLive