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Searching for Pennsylvania birth records, Pennsylvania census records, Pennsylvania marriage records, or Pennsylvania death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Pennsylvania Genealogy Databases
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Pennsylvania Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Pennsylvania vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Pennsylvania vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Pennsylvania ancestors using Pennsylvania census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Pennsylvania Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Pennsylvania) Event: Birth Cost of copy: $4.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had 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. Check or money order should be made payable to Division of Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (724) 656-3100. Event: Death Cost of copy: $3.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had 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. Check or money order should be made payable to Division of Vital Records. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (724) 656-3100. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Make application to the Marriage License Clerks, County Court House, in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Make application to the Prothonotary, Court House, in county seat of county where divorce was granted. |
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