HUH??? At 10:41 AM 2/6/2007, you wrote: >RESEARCH FACILITIES IN DELAWARE COUNTY     The following >outline was devised for a lecture, I did, a few years back for the >Pennsylvania Genealogical Society's Seminar at Neumann College: >DELAWARE COUNTY ARCHIVES                   > (610) 891-5620 Fair Acres - Building #19 340 North Middletown >Road (Rt. 352) Lima, PA   19037    Archivist: Robert J. >Plowman, Ph. D Mailing Address: 201 West Front Street, Media PA >19063. E-mail: archives@co.delaware.pa.us            > ADMINISTRATIONS 1790-1900             BIRTH >RECORDS 1893-1906 [Birth recoords are on microfilm]        >     CIVIL DOCKET BOOKS (CONTINUANCE & APPEARANCE) 1797-1929 >            CIVIL CASE FILES (ORIGINAL WRITS) >11797-1929             CRIMINAL DOCKET BOOKS >1806-1929             CRIMINAL CASE FFILES >1823-1929             DEATH RECORRDS 1893-1906 >[Death records are on microfilm]    Â        > DIVORCE -- see CIVIL CASE FILES            > EQUITY CASE FILES 1856-1897            > LICENSES FOR PEDDLERS 1935--1970.            > MARRIAGE RECORDS 18885 1929 [Both marriage license & >application.]             NAME CHANGE -- see CIVIL >CASE FILES             NATURALIZATION RECORDS >17995-1926 Indexed             NATURALIZATION RECORDS > Indexed 1927-1990             ORPHANSâ COURT >DOCKET BOOKS - 1790-1925             ORPHANSâ >COURT ESTATE CASE FILES 17900-1925 (Index 1789-1829)       >      PETITION BOOKS for NATURALIZATION -- 27 Feb 1860-23 >Sep 1906             PHYSICIANSâ REGISTRATIONS " >1881-1900             TAX VOLUMES --1791-1903 (Owner >and amount of tax paid)             WILLS 1789-1900 >DELAWARE COUNTY COURT HOUSE Frront & Orange Streets Media, PA 19063 >http://www.co.delaware.pa.us/     NOTE: Most of the early >records from the Delaware County Court System you can now view or >get copies of from -- The Delaware County Archives!       > Register of Wills Office:    * Births: 1893-1906 Docket   > (610) 891-4405                    > Delayed Birth Records -- prior to 1906            >                     (registered >c1941-c1965)                     * Deaths: >1893-1906 Docket                    > Marriages: 1930-present (micro film)            >         Probate Records              > (610) 891-4400 or 10                    > Wills & Letters of Administration               >                 (1901 to present)      >                   Guardianship Papers    >     Note: * The Birth & Death Records do not include those >who were born &             died in the City of >Chester.                           >         Orphans Court Office:    Adoption Records >           (610) 891-4419              >       1789-1865 Docket                >         * 1865-1921 Docket (missing, maybe in Chester)  >                   1921-present    > Recorder of Deeds Office:    Deeds (1789-present)     >   (610) 891-4155     Office of Judicial Support (OJS):  >                              >   Divorce Docket (Index): #1 to # 17 Vol.           >      * Murder Docket (c1940-present) (missing March 2000)  >                              >     Naturalization Index Books:              >               Book #1    1795 - 1860 *   >                      Book #2   > 1860 - 1906                        > Book #3    1906 - 1926     Veterans Affairs Office:  >                      (610) 891-4646   >      Info on Veteranâs & their places of burial & >gravestones DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (DCHS)    (610) >359-1148        c/o Delaware. Co. Community College Annex >               Malin & James Roads       >         Hours: Tues. 1:00 PM - 8:00 PM Broomall, PA >19008                     Wed.  9:00 >AM - 5:00 PM http://www.delcohistory.org/dchs/          >        Sat.     ?               >                      Admittance: $5.00 >            Delaware. Co. Census 1790-1930 (micro >film)             Delaware. Co. Directories    >             Boyd's directory of Delaware County, >Penna., 1897-'98: containing a general              >   directory of Chester City, and of the towns of Clifton >Heights, Darby,                 Eddystone, >Lansdowne, Media, Sharon Hill, Upland and Wayne, and a       >          business directory of the county, to which is >added a large list of farmers and                > an appendix of useful information.               >  Boyd's directory of Delaware County, Penna., 1899-1900: >containing a general                 directory >of Chester City, and of the towns of Clifton Heights, Darby,    >             Eddystone, Lansdowne, Media, Ridley >Park, Sharon Hill, Upland and Wayne,               >  and a business directory of the county, to which is added a >large list of                 farmers and an >appendix of useful information.             Church >Records             Cemetery Records -- âChester >Rural 1863â             Newspapers, (Chester Times, >now Delaware County Daily Times            > 1876-1971)             Deeds           >  Maps             Books: PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES  >                   (Revolutionary War, Fifth >Series, Volume V)                        > BATES (PA in the Civil War)                > ASHMEAD (War of 1812)                 Record >of Pennsylvania Volunteers in the                >                 SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR    >             Family Genealogies          >       Chester F. BAKER (Collection)           >      Chester County Records (Wills)            > Computer: CD (Newspapers Delaware & Chester Co.)     (NEW) >   Naturalization Index:                   >          Book #1    1795 - 1860        >                 Book #2    1860 - 1906  >                       Book #3   > 1906 - 1926 DELAWARE COUNTY INSTITUTE of SCIENCE        >     (610) 566-5126 11 Veterans Square Media, PA DELAWARE >COUNTY DAILY TIMES (newspaper)            (610) >622-8821 Library -- (Not open to the public)    500 Mildred >Avenue Primos, PA                The Chester >Times (now the Delaware County Daily Times) can be found on micro >film at the following libraries: 1876-present           >  Place                    Newspaper  >  Year(s)             Widener >University Library    Daily Times      1970-present  >           Cheyney University    Library   > Daily Times    ? - ?             Ridley Twp. >    Library        Daily Times    1985-present >MORMON LIBRARY    (free)                  >          (610) 356-8507 721 Paxon Hollow Road   >         Broomall, PA 19008    Hours: Tues., >Wed & Thurs.     9:30 AM - 1:30 PM            >                            > 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM                      >       Sat.           9:30 AM - 2:30 PM >SWARTHMORE COLLEGE                       >     (610) 328-8496 The Friends Historical Library     >   Swarthmore, PA                 Quaker >Records of Delaware Co., PA    c1690-present        > Hicksites Records         Nicholites (DE & MD)    >     Quaker Records from across the USA >------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please >send an email to PADELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word >'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.0.411 / Virus Database: 268.17.28/672 - Release Date: 2/6/2007