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Pennsylvania Vital Records Information

Vital records can be invaluable while researching your family. Those interested in Pennsylvania genealogy can find information such as mother's maiden names, previous address and next of kin. Below you will find information about finding these types of genealogy records in Pennsylvania.

Order Birth and Death Records Online

Address:
Division of Vital Records
State Department of Health
Central Building
101 South Mercer Street
P.O. Box 1528
New Castle, PA 16103

Birth and death records
Birth - $4.00 per copy
Death - $3.00 per copy

State office has records since January 1906.  For earlier records, write to Register of Wills, Orphans Court, in county seat of county where event occurred. Persons born in Pittsburgh from 1870 to 1905 or in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, from 1882 to 1905 should write to Office of Biostatistics, Pittsburgh Health Department, City--County Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. For events occurring in City of Philadelphia from 1860 to 1915, write to Vital Statistics, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, 401 North Broad Street, Room 942, Philadelphia, PA 19108.  Call 724 656-3100 to verify current fees.

County marriage records
Costs vary

Contact the Marriage License Clerk, Court House in the county where license was issued.

Pennsylvania Genealogy - Marriages

County divorce records
Costs vary

Contact the Prothonotary in the county where divorce was granted.
 

City Genealogy Resources

Click on a city below for genealogy resources and databases for that Pennsylvania town.

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Useful Pennsylvania Sites

The Pennsylvania Genealogy Store

Pennsylvania Counties - includes town names located in each county as well as searchable genealogy databases for each county.  Links also provided to specific cities with city databases.

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Pennsylvania Databases

PA Women in the Revolutionary War
Lancaster Probate Index, 1729-1850
Pennsylvania German Pioneers
PA Foreign Oaths of Allegiance
PA Foreign Oaths of Allegiance, 2
Pennsylvania Pensioners, 1835
Irish Quaker Immigration into PA
Penna. Volunteers in the War of 1812
Pennsylvania Census, 1772-1890
Cross Creek Deaths, 1810-90
Pennsylvania Naturalizations, 1740-73
Erie City Directories, 1889-93
Wilkes-Barre Directories, 1889-1892
Penna. Biographical Sketches, 1868
PA Irish Quaker Immigrants, 1682-1750
Cross Creek, Cemetery History
PA Founding Families, 1681-1911
Pittsburgh Directories, 1888-92
Bradford Directories, 1887-93
PA Methodist Church Records, 1908
Norristown, Directories, 1888-93
PA 1910 Census Miracode Index
Allentown, Directories, 1887, 1889-90
Chester City, Directory, 1888-89
Bethlehem, Directory, 1890
Williamsport Directories, 1889-92
Pennsylvania Quaker Records
Pennsylvania Genealogies: Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German
Early Pennsylvania Land Records
Immigrants in PA from 1727 to 1776
Ship Passenger Lists to Pennsylvania: Miscellaneous Ships
Provincial Councillors of PA, 1733-1776
History of the Lehigh Valley
Pennsylvania Province and State History, 1609-1790, Volume I
Pennsylvania Province and State History, 1609-1790, Volume II
Immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1727-76

Pennsylvania Genealogy Society

215 S. Broad St., 7th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5325

Pennsylvania Genealogy Sites

PAGenWeb
Pennsylvania Genealogy Books
Pennsylvania Facts