Amy Arner's handout from the Feb 2015 meeting on Pennsylvania Vital Records. This is a great "cheat sheet" resource for determining the location of the records you need for your research.
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Pennsylvania index for birth from 1906-1909
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Pennsylvania residents can access this database for free. The State
Archives has posted instructions on how at
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/research_
topics/3162/ancestry_com_pennsylvania/1575348
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Order certified copies of more recent (non-public) records from the
Pennsylvania Division of Vital Records
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Family History Library has digitized films for some PA counties as follows:
Database Pennsylvania County Marriages 1885–1950
Records from Centre, Lycoming, Mifflin, Monroe, Pike, and Union counties
have not been microfilmed and are not in the database
Allegheny County records for 1906–1937 were not microfilmed and are
not in the database
Philadelphia records are a in different database – Philadelphia Marriage
Indexes 1885–1951
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Contains records of Eastern and Western Penitentiary, Board of Pardons, Graterford Prison and the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory.
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