Pennsylvania

Vital Records and Other Help

Vital Records, State Dept of Health, 
P.O. Box 1528, 
101 South Mercer Street,
 New Castle, PA 16103, 412-656-3100

Vital Records, State Dept of Health State office has had birth and death records since January 1906. Access to birth and death certificates is limited to next of kin. 
Make check or money order payable to Division of Vital Records. For earlier records, 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 Bio statistics, 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

Certified copies of divorce records are not available at the State office.
 Make application to the Prothonotary Court House, in county seat of county where divorce was granted. 
Fees vary.

Certified copies of marriage records are not available at the State office. 
Make application to the Marriage License Clerks, County Court House, 
in county where license was issued.
Fees vary.

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