11. Pennsylvania Births in the IGI
The free International Genealogical Index (IGI) at FamilySearch includes extracted birth records from a number of Pennsylvania localities, including Philadelphia Birth Registers, 1860-1903. These are abstracted records only (no digital images), but by viewing the batch and source you can use the information from this index to locate the original birth record. Other counties with extracted records in the IGI include (but are not limited to) Allegheny and Lackawanna. To see what else is available for Pennsylvania in the IGI, visit Hugh Wallis' IGI Batch Numbers for Pennsylvania.
12. SAMPUBCO - Pennsylvania
Free online indexes for Pennsylvania estate records and probate files are available for a few Pennsylvania counties and time periods. Most lists are not complete.
13. Allegheny County Vital Statistics Indexes from PA Newspapers
Wonderful volunteers with an interest in Allegheny County genealogy have banned together to provide indexes and even full transcriptions (in some cases) of Allegheny County death notices, plus a few marriage annoucements, found in Pennsylvania newspapers. There are even indexes to photos of individuals, plus some divorces. These aren't complete indexes, but the available information is growing rapidly.
14. Berks County Records Search
Search indexes to over 1 million records held by the Register of Wills / Clerk of the Orphans' Court offices in Berks County, Pennsylvania, including birth, marriage and death records for Berks County and the City of Reading, plus estate records.
15. Butler Area Public Library Obituary Database, 1818-2010
Since the 1980s, volunteers from the Genealogy Department of the Butler Area Public Library have extracted names and dates of published obituaries and created an index to over 227,000 articles published in Butler County newspapers from 1818 to the present. The primary focus is obituaries, but the database does include some other events of genealogical importance including births, marriages, divorces, etc.
16. Chester County Archives - Online Indexes
This is a great resource for anyone with roots in Chester County, Pennsylvania! Free online indexes cover everything from available births, marriages and deaths (1852-1855 and 1893-1907), to wills, divorces, naturalization records, fugitive slave records, peddler's petitions, Civil War Board of Relief petitions, poor school children records, tax lists, coroner's records, slave manumissions, deeds, World War I Servicemen records, and so much more.
17. Delaware County Library Newspaper Archive
Search or browse more than 445,000 pages of historical Delaware County newspapers, including the Chester Times (1882-1959), Chester Daily Times (1876-1881), Chester Evening Times (1886), Chester Reporter (1941), Daily Times (1977-2007) and Delaware County Daily Times (1959-1976). Free!
18. Greene County Records
A wealth of transcriptions by Jim Fordyce of Greene County genealogical records, including birth and death registers (1893-1903 and 1904-1915), a Greene County Obituary Index (1822-1959, 1980-1981), will indexes (1796-2002), Marriage Books 1-20 (1885-1929), and Marriages, Deaths and miscellaneous items from the Waynesbur Messenger, 1850-1919.
