STATE RESOURCES and HELPFUL URLs

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is now requiring all requests for birth and death records to be done on new forms that have the requester sign a release that they are who they say they are. The old forms are no longer acceptable and will be returned.

You can find the new forms HERE
Penna. Dept. of Health
Div. of Vital Records,
P. O. Box 1528, New Castle PA 16103-1528.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ... in pursuit of good health. If the birth/death occurred before 1906, contact the Courthouse in the county where the event occurred. Also, ALL requests for marriage and divorce records should be directed to the County Courthouse in which the marriage license or divorce decree was issued.

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• Delaware County GenWeb Site http://www.delcogenweb.org

• Chester County Records and Archives http://dsf.chesco.org/archives/cwp/view.asp?a=3&Q=609969&archivesNav=|34185|

• Philadelphia County GenWeb Site http://www.phillygenweb.org

• Linkpedium - Chester County Links - over 1000 at last count http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/PA/Chester/

• How to find vital records in all states http://vitalrec.com/

• Digitalized archives of PA http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp

• Here's a handy URL that contains all the counties of PA, when formed, and some info on each http://www.negenealogy.com/pa/pa_county.htm

• Philadelphia and Chester County Buildings www.philadelphiabuildings.org

• Index to Gilbery Cope's colleciton of family data (on film at the LDS) http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/cope.htm

• A-D  Surnames: MARRIAGE RECORD OF THE SWEDES' CHURCH, (GLORIA DEI.),
  PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1750-1810.
  Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 8.
  http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-10.txt

• Surnames: Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790: PA Archives, Series II, Vol. II
  
  • http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/vitals/pass2-05.txt
    
  • http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/vitals/pass2-06.txt
    
  • http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/vitals/pass2-07.txt
    
  • http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/vitals/pass2-08.txt

• The John Harris/Simon Cameron Mansion
  The Historical Society of Dauphin County
  219 South Front Street
  Harrisburg, PA 17104
  (717) 233-3462 (telephone)
  (717) 233-6059 (fax)

• The PA Society - Sons of the Revolution   - register of 1888-1889 surnames n-z
  http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/military/revwar/sorrolln-z.txt

• Marriage Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia
  
  • A-B Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-1.txt
    
  • C-Di Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-2.txt
    
  • Do-G Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-3.txt
    
  • H-J Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-4.txt
    
  • K-Mc Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-5.txt
    
  • Me-Q Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-6.txt
    
  • R-Sh Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-7.txt
    
  • Si-Ve http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-8.txt
    
  • Vi-Z Surnames http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/church/pass8-9.txt
    

• Vital record info for the state of PA http://vitalrec.com/pa.html
  

• American Memory collection of the LOC (simply type in Chester Co, Delaware Co. etc....photos) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
  

• Site with all PA courthouse info http://www.genealogy.com/00000267.html

• Genealogical Resources at the Philadelphia City Archives http://www.phila.gov/phils/Docs/Inventor/genealgy.htm
  

• St. Andrew's Church yard, Ludwig's Corner http://interment.net/data/us/pa/chester/standrew/standy.htm

• PA soldiers' orphans home http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~orphanshome

• HISTORIC ASYLUMS. America's vanishing historic asylums, state hospitals (insane asylums), sanitariums, county homes, medical hospitals, and other institutions. This site attempts to catalog and present such institutions founded in the second half of the 19th century. A few asylums constructed in the 20th century and a fictional asylum are included. Historic asylum postcard images and other photos. Preservation alerts. Preservation groups.   http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/

• An alphabetical listing of all PA townships and their counties. http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/history/local/patwps.txt

• Digital research library...University of Pittsburgh http://digital.library.pitt.edu/

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