Pennsylvania Birth Records

Enter a first and/or last name to search Pennsylvania birth records. This website was created to provide genealogists with access to the Pennsylvania birth records from a single place. Additional information on how to obtain Pennsylvania birth certificates is available below.

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Pennsylvania birth records

Birth records contain information about a person's birth, including the date of birth, place of birth, sometimes the names of the mother and father, and even the physician who attended the birth. Birth certificates issued by state and local governments will often include the place of residence, and the mother's maiden name.

This webpage gives you access to all of the online databases containing Pennsylvania birth records, Pennsylvania birth ceritificates, Pennsylvania birth notices, Pennsylvania birth indexes, and other related Pennsylvania genealogy records.

Birth records have long been used to help with genealogy research. They are considered to be "primary source" records, because the information is recorded by an eye witness, at the time the birth takes place. The Internet has allowed people to store birth records into various online archives. This has brought access to online birth records much more easier for genealogy researchers.

Newspapers frequently publish notices of births, and in addition to birth certificates, are a popular source of research by genealogists. Newspapers typically do not announce the names of the newborn, but list the sex of the child, the names of the parents, the place and date of birth.

On this page you will find the most comprehensive databases containing birth records of Pennsylvania. We also suggest searching for "Pennsylvania birth records" using Google.com, which will yield all such databases.

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How to Obtain Pennsylvania Birth Certificates

Pennsylvania began statewide registration of vital records in January 1906. The repositories for these records, however, are not centralized in one location.

For All Areas Except Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie and Scranton, for birth and death records from January 1906, write:

State Department of Health
Division of Vital Statistics
101 S. Mercer Street
P.O. Box 1528
New Castle, PA 16103
Tel: 724-656-3100

For prior records, write to the clerk of the county in question.

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