Welcome to PA-Roots
The mission of PA-Roots is to Bring our Past into the Future!
You will find on our websites some of the best free genealogy research resources available on the internet for Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic region.
PA-Roots is a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation.
The PA-Roots Team consists of a great group of volunteers who are dedicated to getting genealogical and historical data on-line that is freely accessible by our visitors. These are found at the county pages and at the DataBoards. The county pages are located here.
There are currently over 5,200 registered users of our DataBoards which hold over 800,000 individual records.
You can search both at the same time by using our custom Google search tool.
When asking for assistance, please remember that we are all volunteers.
Check our our sister site US-Roots.org, host to many other state websites.
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Pennsylvania Birth and Death Indices
The Pennsylvania Department of Health, Vital Records has posted on-line the Birth Indices for the year 1906 and the Death Indices for the years 1906-1961.
The Birth Indices includes the name, Mothers maiden name and first initial and the place of birth.
The Death Indices includes the name, age, date of death and the place of death.