Click this to go to the main page of the USGenWeb Philadelphia County Archives. Below is a list of the categories you'll find there:

● Area History
● Bibles
● Bibliographies
● Biographies
● Cemeteries
● Cemetery Listings
● Tombstone Images
● Census Records
● Church Registers/Church History
● Cemeteries
● City Directories
● Clubs/Club Members
● Court Records
● Education/Schools
● Family History
● Immigration
● Land Records
● Military Records
● Newspaper Articles
● Obituaries/Death Notices/Death Lists
● Penny Postcards
● Publications*
● Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications
● Tax Records/Lists
● Vital Statistics - Births/Deaths/Marriages
● Marriages
● Marriage Licenses & Notices (individual)
● Marriage Notices (daily newspaper)
● Orphans' Court Marriage Index (1885-1916)
● Abstracts by Will Book
● Wills/Estate Records
● Other Will/Estate Records

 

*Publications include WATSON'S ANNALS of PHILADELPHIA and PENNSYLVANIA, Volumes I & II by John F. Watson, Published in 1857, Written circa 1830-1850, TAYLOR'S PHILADELPHIA in the CIVIL WAR by Frank H. Taylor, Published in 1913, A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE MALIGNANT FEVER Lately Prevalent in PHILADELPHIA By Mathew Carey, Fourth Edition, Improved January 16, 1794, COLONIAL FAMILIES IN PHILADELPHIA Every Name index edited by John W. Jordan, published by Lewis Publishers 1911. 

 

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

John Barrymore

South Street on a nice summer day!

Originally known as Cedar Street