RESEARCH FACILITIES IN DELAWARE COUNTY      The following outline was devised for a lecture, I did, a few years back for thePennsylvania Genealogical Society's Seminar at Neumann College: DELAWARE COUNTY ARCHIVES                         (610) 891-5620Fair Acres - Building #19340 North Middletown Road (Rt. 352)Lima, PA    19037    Archivist:  Robert J. Plowman, Ph. DMailing Address:201 West Front Street, Media PA 19063.E-mail: archives@co.delaware.pa.us                ADMINISTRATIONS – 1790-1900               BIRTH RECORDS – 1893-1906 [Birth records are on microfilm]               CIVIL DOCKET BOOKS (CONTINUANCE & APPEARANCE) 1797-1929               CIVIL CASE FILES (ORIGINAL WRITS) – 1797-1929               CRIMINAL DOCKET BOOKS – 1806-1929               CRIMINAL CASE FILES – 1823-1929               DEATH RECORDS – 1893-1906 [Death records are on microfilm]               DIVORCE  -- see CIVIL CASE FILES               EQUITY CASE FILES – 1856-1897               LICENSES FOR PEDDLERS – 1935-1970.               MARRIAGE RECORDS – 1885 – 1929 [Both marriage license & application.]               NAME CHANGE -- see CIVIL CASE FILES               NATURALIZATION RECORDS – 1795-1926 Indexed               NATURALIZATION RECORDS – Indexed 1927-1990               ORPHANS’ COURT DOCKET BOOKS  - 1790-1925               ORPHANS’ COURT ESTATE CASE FILES – 1790-1925 (Index 1789-1829)               PETITION BOOKS for NATURALIZATION -- 27 Feb 1860-23 Sep 1906               PHYSICIANS’ REGISTRATIONS – 1881-1900               TAX VOLUMES --1791-1903 (Owner and amount of tax paid)               WILLS – 1789-1900 DELAWARE COUNTY COURT HOUSEFront & Orange StreetsMedia, PA 19063http://www.co.delaware.pa.us/      NOTE: Most of the early records from the Delaware County Court Systemyou 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 Veteran’s & 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 PMBroomall, PA 19008                           Wed.   9:00 AM - 5:00 PMhttp://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 -- “Chester Rural 1863”               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) 566-512611 Veterans SquareMedia, PA DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES (newspaper)               (610) 622-8821Library -- (Not open to the public)    500 Mildred AvenuePrimos, PA                    The Chester Times (now the Delaware County Daily Times) can befound 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) 356-8507721 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) 328-8496The Friends Historical Library         Swarthmore, PA                   Quaker Records of Delaware Co., PA     c1690-present          Hicksites Records          Nicholites (DE & MD)          Quaker Records from across the USA