Free Online Pennsylvania Birth Records and Indexes These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual birth documents These free online collections have millions of records in them in total
Birth Records - Pennsylvania (Birth Certificates Databases) Find resources for obtaining birth records in Pennsylvania Access official sites for birth certificate applications, replacements, and verifications Learn about fees and ID requirements
Locating Pennsylvania Birth, Death, and Marriage Records . . . Birth records are available to the public after 105 years and death records after 50 years, with indexes for the records released on the Pennsylvania State Archives website after the end of the year
Birth and Death Certificates - Genealogy at the State Library . . . Digital copies of publicly available birth and death certificates may be found on Ancestry com Pennsylvania residents can access these records free of charge through Ancestry com Pennsylvania Find out more from the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission
How to Find Pennsylvania Birth Records • FamilySearch One of the original thirteen colonies, Pennsylvania was a late comer to the keeping of vital records on a state level Between 1852-1855 Pennsylvania counties were directed to record births within their jurisdiction However few counties complied In 1893 counties were again required to record births within their jurisdiction This law had a better response and remained in effect until 1906
Vital Records - Pennsylvania: Local History Genealogy . . . Pennsylvania: Local History Genealogy Resource Guide Vital Records Based on the date of the vital event (birth, death, marriage, divorce), determine whether you are seeking a state, territory, county, or parish level record If the record you are seeking has been digitized, you can access it online, through the projects described below