This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5UC.2ACE/1232.2 Message Board Post: Birth and Death records were kept in each county in PA thru 1905. From 1906 to the present they are on file at Vital Records, a state office, which is located in New Castle, PA. Marriage records are kept in the county where the couple applied for their license, not the county they were married in.