Pennsylvania Vital Records
Pennsylvania Vital Records -- Including Pennsylvania births, Pennsylvania deaths, Pennsylvania marriages, cemetery, census, and more records.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Pennsylvania Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put PA in the birth place field | 0ver 490,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. |
| RootsWeb Pennsylvania Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Pennsylvania in the birth place field | 0ver 2,600,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information. |
| RootsWeb Pennsylvania Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Pennsylvania in the marriage place field | 0ver 970,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information. |
| RootsWeb Pennsylvania Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Pennsylvania in the death place field | 0ver 800,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical and contact information. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Pennsylvania | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put PA in the Keyword Search | 0ver 470,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Pennsylvania Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put PA in the death place field | 0ver 230,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find PA and put in the word "census" | 2237 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Pennsylvania, 2,167 links | http://www.census-online
.com/links/PA/ | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Pennsylvania Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/pa-cem.htm | 3762 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |
Misc. Pennsylvania Genealogy Sites
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Pennsylvania at My CinnamonToast Genealogy | www.mycinnamontoast.com/perl/
results.cgi?region=1041&sort=n | 1,000s | varies | Free | Here you can find web sites full of biographies, birth records, death records, marriage records, military records, land records, newspaper records, and more. |
| Migrations.org | www.migrations.org/county.php3 and put "PA" in the location search. | varies | varies | Free | A fun searchable site of people and their migrations. Still relatively new, so not too many records yet but a great project. |
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