Dear Peggy ~ Both the birth certificate and the family are right. Each Pennsylvania County is divided into smaller subdivisions called townships (abbreviated Twp). It is larger than a town, and may have several small towns within its boundries. Or it might encompass one town and the surrounding countryside. If someone lives outside a town, he would say "I live in X township." If he lives in a very small town, he might say the same thing, instead of naming the town. As far as Courthouses, etc., go, governing bodies are at the County level. All legal activities and documentation are handled at at the County or State level. If you are listing information in a genealogy record, your late husband's place of birth would be listed as: "Indianhead, Salt Lick Township, Fayette County, PA," or you could omit the "Indianhead." I found that Indianhead, PA is in Fayette County, and there is a Salt Lick Twp. in Fayette County. I couldn't actually locate Indianhead, but it very likely is in Salt Lick Twp., or was, when your husband was born. The population of a township may ask for it to be divided and a new, additional, township be formed. Here is a brief early history of Salt Lick Twp. which I took off the Fayette Co., Salt Lick Twp. website. EARLY HISTORY OF SALT LICK Salt Lick is the northeastern township of Fayette county, and it's inhabitants are principally enganged in the pursuit of agriculture, although there are areas of valuable mineral wealth embraced within it's boundaries. Westmoreland bounds it on the north, Somerset on the east, Chestnut Ridge is on the west, and on the south lies the township of Springfield. The political existences of the township dates from December, 1797, at which time, in accordance with the petition "of sundry inhabitants of the Salt Lick Settlement in the township of Bullskin, praying for a division of said township and that the top of Chestnut Ridge may be the line of separation," the prayer of the petitioners was granted by the court, and the new township became a distinct political unit. Though now officially designated as Salt Lick it retained for years it's popular title "Yough", a name unauthorized but illustrating the tenacity of familiar usage. The name "Salt Lick" was suggested by the licks of salt that mark the principal water course in the township--that is, Indian Creek. The surface is mountainous, high hills attaining an altitude above the ordinary level, and in the west forming a plateau. Limestone exists in large quantities and coal appears along the line of the water courses. The projected railroad up Indian Creek would develop the coal and other mineral resources of the township by rendering it accessible to market. The township consists of three small villages and one hamlet. From Nelson's Biographical Dictionary of Fayette County. Good luck. Susan in Louisiana (whose folks came from next door in Greene Co.)