Hi, Can you tell me if all the courthouses for every county in PA kept birth records from 1852-1854? I have 2 ancestors born during those years and would love to find their birth records because they are 'brick walls' in my research. Elizabeth =================================================== On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:38 PM, <JYoung6180@aol.com> wrote: > Statewide birth records (civil records) were not kept in Pennsylvania until > 1906. For a brief period of about 2 years records were kept in the county > courthouses from 1852 to 1854 and were then abandoned due to lack of > compliance with the law. > > Aside from the above, church baptismal records and privately held family > Bibles are the best source of birth information for Pennsylvania. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 5/31/2009 10:27:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > Dhazvt@aol.com writes: > > Hi: > > I am wondering if birth records existed for Pennyslvania in 1828. If not, > when were records required to be kept. > > Thank you, > Dot > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAADAMS > ********* > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAADAMS Message Board are > gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed > messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages > by clicking on the link and replying on the board. > ************ > Visit the ADAMS County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~paadams/ <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Epaadams/> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAADAMS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >