This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GaB.2ACE/547.1 Message Board Post: Pennsylvania did not begin maintaining death and birth records until 1906. Prior to that time some of the counties did maintain official records. You need to contact the Registrar of Wills for the county to determine if the records exist. Failing that church records and headstones are the only death records available in Pennsylvania