Lebanon County, Pennsylvania PAGenWeb Project

Genealogical Resources

Contents

• State Library of Pennsylvania
• Library of Congress
• Pennsylvania Vital Records
• GeoGen Cemetery Locator
• USGS Geographic Names Information System
• National Archives and Records Administration

The State Libary of Pennsylvania has an extensive collection of genealogical resources. The library web site is http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/; searches of the catalog can be made.

The Library of Congress home page is http://www.loc.gov/homepage/.

• Copies of birth certificates and death certificates since January 1906 may be obtained by writing to:
  
  
  Division of Vital Records
  State Department of Health
  Central Building
  101 South Mercer Street
  Post Office Box 1528
  New Castle, PA 16103
  

  The Division of Vital Records has a web site that describes how to obtain birth and death certificates. Forms for requesting these records may be downloaded.

• For information regarding marriage licenses, apply to the Marriage License Clerks, County Court House, in county where license was issued.


• For information on divorce records, apply to the Prothonotary, Court House, in county seat of county where divorce was granted.


• For records before January 1906, write to Register of Wills, Orphans Court, in county seat of county where event occurred. Persons born in Pittsburgh from 1870 to 1905 or in Allegheny City, now part of Pittsburgh, from 1882 to 1905 should write to Office of Biostatistics, Pittsburgh Health Department, City-County Building, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. For events occurring in City of Philadelphia from 1860 to 1915, write to Vital Statistics, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, 401 North Broad Street, Room 942, Philadelphia, PA 19108.

National Archives and Records Administration