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Getting Started | Primary Sources | Secondary Sources Regional Libraries | Other Websites | Forms Two good websites to help you on your genealogy research are FamilySearch.org at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp and the National Archives and their section for Genealogists and Family Historians at http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy. They have a number of research guides and tutorials to help you. Primary Sources Consist of vital records, church records, court records and passenger lists. Vital records are obtained from the state where a person was born, married or died. ForPennsylvania records can be obtained from: Vital Records, State Dept of Health
P.O. Box 1528 101 South Mercer Street New Castle, PA 16101 (724) 656-3100 Fax: (724) 652-8951 For Pennsylvania it is also important to know that records before 1906 must be obtained from the county where the event occurred.For obtaining birth or death certificates for events that occurred before 1906 contact the Register of Wills, Orphans Court in the county where the event occurred.There may be a charge for these documents. Passenger Lists can be researched at the Federal Archives.If your ancestors passed through Ellis Island you can also obtain this information from the Ellis Island website http://www.ellisisland.org/ Secondary Sources Include obituaries, marriage and birth notices. These can be found in newspapers such as the Daily Local News, Coatesville Record, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Other secondary sources are family histories, indexes or compilations of census records. Census records are an important area of family research and can confirm information as well as provide other information.The Federal Population census is taken every 10 years.There is a 72 year restriction on access to population census schedules - the 1930 census is the latest year currently available. From 1790-1840 only the head of household is listed, but with the 1850 census individual members of the household are listed.
Regional Libraries Libraries and information centers that specialize in genealogical records are good places to visit to do research.Several of these libraries are listed below:
Subscribes to the following databases that contain genealogy information:
Ancestry http://www.ancestrylibrary.com/default.aspx(in library use only)
Heritage Quest http://www.heritagequestonline.com/hqoweb/library/do/index
(Can also be searched from home) The Chester County Historical Society, 225 North High Street, West Chester, PA, 610-692-4800 is a good place to visit for local information.Website is http://www.chestercohistorical.org/ Chester County Archives has birth, marriage, and death records for Chester County Website is http://www.chesco.org/index.aspx?nid=192 Church of the Latter Day Saints Family Information Center, 721 Paxon Hollow Road, Broomall, PA19008, 610-356-8507.The center will order documents from the Library in Salt Lake City for a fee.
Federal Archives, 900 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA19107, 215-597-3000
contains a wealth of information such as U.S. census records, military records, passenger lists for the Port of Philadelphia and federal court records.Website is http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/ The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa 19103, 215-545-0391. The society has a large collection of genealogical materials - website is http://www.genpa.org/ U.S. GenWeb Project consists of a group of volunteers working together to provide Internet websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. http://www.usgenweb.org/index.shtml
Cyndis List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet- another good website with lots of links for both national and international research. One can browse this list alphabetically or by topics. http://www.cyndislist.com/
AfriGeneas is a site devoted to African American genealogy. http://www.afrigeneas.com/
The Swenson Swedish Immigration Center at Augustana College provides resources for the study of Swedish immigration to North America as well as assisting people in researching their Swedish American family history by providing help in obtaining parish records either in their Library or from Sweden.
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
Augustana College 639 38th Street Rock Island IL 61201-2296 http://www.augustana.edu/x13856.xml Forms
Free Genealogy Forms and Charts- quite a number of forms to use in your genealogy research http://www.genealogysearch.org/free/forms.html
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