Philadelphia County Genealogy
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Philadelphia Countywide Sources
1790 Census US Gen Web Archives
1790 Census File 1 of 4 US Gen Web Archives
1790 Census File 2 of 4 US Gen Web Archives
1790 Census File 3 of 4 US Gen Web Archives
1790 Census File 4 of 4 US Gen Web Archives
1790 to 1940 U.S. Federal Census World Vital Records
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census Archives
1790-1940 United States Federal Census
1890 Complete Philadelphia Directory US Gen Web
18th Street Methodist Episcopal Church Records (1873-1905) US Gen Web Archives
1906-present Pennsylvania Birth Certificates (order here) Archives
1906-present Pennsylvania Death Certificates (order here) Archives
A Brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick : with biographical notices of some of the members and extracts from the minutes Family History Library
A Checklist of Pennsylvania newspapers, Philadelphia County Family History Library
A list of German immigrants to the American colonies from Zweibruecken in the Palatinate, 1750-1771 Family History Library
A list of names of the inhabitants of the county of Philadelphia with the quantity of land they respectively hold therein according to the uncertain returns of the Constable, 1734 Family History Library
A list of the taxable inhabitants of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 1800 Family History Library
Abstract of wills of Philadelphia County. Family History Library
Abstracts from Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania gazette, April 17, 1755 to December 27, 1764 Family History Library
Abstracts of Philadelphia County wills Family History Library
Abstracts of Philadelphia wills, 1682-1825 Family History Library
Abstracts of wills of Westmoreland County, registered at Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Administration books L-P Family History Library
Abstracts of wills recorded in the administration books, Register's Office, Philadelphia. / Administration books F-L. Family History Library
Alderman marriage records, 1842-1852 Family History Library
Alderman marriage records, 1845-1855 Family History Library
Alderman marriage records, April 1840 - May 1855 Family History Library
American Genealogical Biographical Index Databases World Vital Records
An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigrants to Philadelphia, 1803-1850
An Alphabetical Index to Ulster Emigration to Philadelphia, 1803 - 1850 World Vital Records
An alphabetical index to Ulster emigration to Philadelphia, 1803-1850 Family History Library
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania Family History Library
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania from the days of the founders: intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements ... Family History Library
Army Bands: Taylor's Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865: PA US Gen Web Archives
Auditor's accounts (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania), 1850-1878 Family History Library
Baptisms, confirmations, funerals, and marriages in the registers of L'Eglise du Saint Sauveur, the francophone Philadelphia church of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania : 1872-1953 Family History Library
Barnes map of the whole incorporated city of Philadelphia from actual surveys & official records Family History Library
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Birth Registrations, November 1875 US Gen Web Archives
Book A, 1683-1702, administration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Brave new world; Rhinelanders conquer America [and] the journal of Johannes Herbergs Family History Library
Briefs of title, Philadelphia city and county, 1682-1900 Family History Library
Bucks County militia, 1780-1822 Family History Library
Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia Family History Library
Catholic Goshenhoppen registers, no. 1 & 2 Family History Library
Cemeteries, burial grounds, graves and graveyards found in the Philadelphia area Family History Library
Cemetery records Family History Library
Chinese in Philadelphia and other places in Pennsylvania Family History Library
Church records : selected areas of Pennsylvania, 1600s-1800s Family History Library
City Hospital register, 1840-1896 Family History Library
City tax (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania), 1780 Family History Library
Civil War: Three Year Regiments- Part II: Taylor's Philadelphia in the Civil War US Gen Web Archives
Civil War: Three Year Regiments- Part IV: Taylor's Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 US Gen Web Archives
Civil War:Three Year Regiments - Part I: Taylor's Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 US Gen Web Archives
Convict description docket, 1826-1883 Family History Library
Convict description docket, Holmesburg Prison; May 21, 1894-Dec. 30, 1913 Family History Library
Convict description docket, women, 1889-1917, in the Philadelphia County Prison Family History Library
County funding tax duplicate, 1788 Family History Library
Court docket, 1753-1879 Family History Library
Daily occurrence docket and day books, 1787-1917 Family History Library
Death notices from the Philadelphia Enquire, January 1933 Family History Library
Deaths from Berks, Dauphin and Philadelphia counties newspapers, 1791-1864 Family History Library
Declarations of intention of naturalization, 1818-1875 Family History Library
Declarations of intention, 1794-1911 Family History Library
Declarations of intention, 1839-1843 Family History Library
Declarations of intentions, 1802-1932 ; Index, 1810-1887 Family History Library
Deeds (Philadephia County, Pennsylvania), 1683-1886 ; index to deeds, 1683-1916 Family History Library
Defendant and purchaser indexes to sheriff's deeds, 1736-1905, in the Court of Common Pleas and the District Court Family History Library
Diocesan confirmation registers, 1911-1950 (Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)) Family History Library
Divorce docket, 1851-1875 Family History Library
Earliest records of the burials in Phila. from the Board of Health, 1803-1807 Family History Library
Early Lutheran baptisms and marriages in southeastern Pennsylvania : the records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730 to 1779 Family History Library
Early history of the Falls of Schuylkill, Manayunk, Schuylkill and Lehigh Navigation Companies, Fairmount Waterworks, etc. Family History Library
Early marriage papers of Philadelphia County, 1684-1869 [mainly Quaker] Family History Library
Elopements and other miscreant deeds of women as advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette : together with a few abused wives and unfortunate children Family History Library
Enumeration of school children, 1811-1816 Family History Library
Enumeration of taxables, slaves, and deaf and dumb persons, 1821, 1828, 1835 Family History Library
Executions list, 1839-1916 Family History Library
Exemplification record, patent books (Philadelpha, Pennsylvania), 1667-1839 Family History Library
Federal Land Patents Bureau of Land Management
Feme sole petitions, 1878-1913 Family History Library
Feme sole traders, 1872-1874 Family History Library
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1749-1750) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1750) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1751-1753) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1755-1756) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1759) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1760) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1761) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1762) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1763) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1764) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1765) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1766) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1767) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1768) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1769) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1770) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1771) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1772) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1773) US Gen Web Archives
First Reformed Church of Philadelphia Baptisms (1774) US Gen Web Archives
First landowners of Pennsylvania : Colonial and State Warrant Registers, 1682-1945 Family History Library
From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia : Puerto Rican workers and postwar economies Family History Library
Genealogical notes from the incomplete files of The Germantown Telegraph Family History Library
Genealogy of Philadelphia County subdivisions Family History Library
General return of the Militia of Philadelphia County for fines for nonattendance on the different muster days, 1779-1781 Family History Library
Gravestone inscriptions in Ronaldson's Philadelphia Cemetery Company Family History Library
Greenmount Cemetery
Guide to records of the sale of commonwealth property in the County of Philadelphia, 1780-1798 Family History Library
Guide to the microfilm of the Baynton, Wharton, and Morgan papers in the Pennsylvania State Archives (Manuscript Group 19) Family History Library
Historic Lower Merion and Blockley : also the erection or establishment of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Historic Lower Merion and Blockley : the erection or establishment of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Histories and genealogies of Southeast Pennsylvania Family History Library
Immigrants to Pennsylvania, 1600's-1800's Family History Library
Immigration lists, oaths of allegiance in Philadelphia, books A-G, 1728-1775 Family History Library
Inbound alien crew lists with related forms, at the port of Phila, PA, 1946 Family History Library
Indenture book, 1796-1797 Family History Library
Index of deeds (recorded and unrecorded), mortgages and miscellaneous instruments uncalled for at the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for the city and county of Philadelphia; also names and dates of commission of masters of the rolls and recorders of deeds and numbers of books of record from 1683 to 1880 Family History Library
Index to declarations of intentions and petitions for naturalization, 1916-1930 and petitions for naturalization, 1914 Family History Library
Index to naturalization and declaration reports, 1802-1837 [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] Family History Library
Index to old rights in Philadelphia County, 1682-1748 Family History Library
Index to wills and administration records, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1682-1850 Family History Library
Interments, 1819-1836 Family History Library
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia [bulletin] Family History Library
LDS Death and Burial Listings (1815-1824) US Gen Web Archives
Landholders in Philadelphia County (outside the city) 1734 Family History Library
Landholders of Philadelphia County, 1734 US Gen Web Archives
Landlord and tenant docket, 1878-1908 Family History Library
Lot holder's book, 1832-1853; book of Daniel B. Grove Family History Library
Lunacy docket, 1781-1824 Family History Library
Map of Philadelphia : from official records, private plans and actual surveys, based upon plans deposited in the Department of Surveys Family History Library
Marriage Record of the German Reformed Church at Philadelphia 1748-1802 US Gen Web Archives
Marriage Record of the Swedes' Church, (Gloria Dei.) 1750-1810 US Gen Web Archives
Marriage certificates, abstracts 1681-1758, mainly from the Philadelphia area and mainly Quakers Family History Library
Marriage register of Philadelphia County, 1814 to 1839 Family History Library
Martin's bench and bar of Philadelphia : together with other lists of persons appointed to administer the laws in the City and County of Philadephia, and the province and commonwealth of Pennsylvania Family History Library
Men's clothing book, 1811-1815 Family History Library
Men's register, ca. 1808-1921 Family History Library
Men's skin ward of Philadelphia Hospital, July 1898-Jan 1905 Family History Library
Military petitions for naturalization filed in the Philadelphia [County] District Court, 1862-1874 Family History Library
Minutes of court records and probate actions, 1716-1755 Family History Library
Minutes of the Board of Property and other references to lands in Pennsylvania including proprietary (old) rights Family History Library
Minutes of the Committee of Defence of Philadelphia, 1814-1815 Family History Library
Minutes, 1801-1838 Family History Library
Moravian Church. Philadelphia, Marriages 1743-1800 US Gen Web Archives
Mortgages and valuations for Bedford, Chester, Cumberland, Philadelphia, and York Counties Family History Library
Naturalization index for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 1881-1930 Family History Library
Naturalization petitions and records, 1795-1911 Family History Library
Naturalization petitions, 1795-1931, and declarations, 1906-1931; index 1795-1928 Family History Library
Naturalization register, 1795-1851 Family History Library
Notices by German and Swiss settlers seeking information of members of their families, kindred, or friends inserted between the years 1742 and 1761 in the Pennsylvanische Berichte and between the years 1762 and 1779 in the Pennsylvanische Staatsbote Family History Library
Oaths of allegiance, 1777-1790 Family History Library
Oyer and terminer docket, 1794-1840 Family History Library
Part I - St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church Marriages 1745-1760 US Gen Web Archives
Part I - St. Paul's Church, P. E. Marriages 1759-1806 US Gen Web Archives
Part II - St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church Marriages 1761-1769 US Gen Web Archives
Part III - St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church Marriages 1770-1776 US Gen Web Archives
Part IV - St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church Marriages 1777-1784 US Gen Web Archives
Part V - St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church Marriages 1785-1795 US Gen Web Archives
Part VI - St. Michael's Zion Lutheran Church Marriages 1793-1800 US Gen Web Archives
Partition dockets, 1820-1873 Family History Library
Partition records, 1740-1912 Family History Library
Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819
Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684
Pastor's records, 1729-1798 Family History Library
Pennsylvania County Marriages, 1885 - 1950 Family Search
Pennsylvania German Marriages: Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Pennsylvania German Churches World Vital Records
Pennsylvania German Pioneers
Pennsylvania German Pioneers: Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Vol. I
Pennsylvania German Pioneers: Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, Vol. II
Pennsylvania Marriage Records, 1700-1821
Pennsylvania Naturalizations, 1740-73
Pennsylvania Records of Marriages, 1885-1889
Pennsylvania births, Philadelphia County, 1644-1765, 1766-1780 Family History Library
Pennsylvania in 1687 Family History Library
Pennsylvania wills, 1682-1834 Family History Library
Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950 Family Search
Pennsylvania, Eastern District Petitions for Naturalization, 1795-1931 Family Search
Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940 Family Search
Pennsylvania, Quaker arrivals at Philadelphia (Meeting), 1682-1750
Petitions for naturalization 1793-1906 ; Indexes 1793-1930 Family History Library
Petitions for naturalization 1800-1929 ; Indexes 1802-1930 Family History Library
Petitions for naturalization, 1811-1874 Family History Library
Philadelphia (County) District Court declarations of intention, 1818-1875; index Family History Library
Philadelphia City & County, Pennsylvania taxpayers 1779 Family History Library
Philadelphia City Directory, 1890
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Artillery, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 1st Battalion 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 2d Battalion, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 3rd Battalion, 1784-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 4th Battalion, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 5th Battalion, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 6th/7th Battalion, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia Civil War muster rolls Family History Library
Philadelphia County Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas, 1695 Family History Library
Philadelphia County Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia County Obituaries US Gen Web
Philadelphia County tax for King William & Queen Mary, 1693 Family History Library
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1819
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania land ownership maps, 1819 and 1843 Family History Library
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, area key : a guide to the genealogical records of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania including maps, histories, charts, and other helpful materials Family History Library
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, land records, 1706-1713 Family History Library
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas declarations of intention, 1821-1849 Family History Library
Philadelphia German Immigration, 1700-75
Philadelphia Korean War deaths Family History Library
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, Authorized Marriages, 1682-1756 US Gen Web Archives
Philadelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945
Philadelphia administrations, 1683-1744 [abstracts] Family History Library
Philadelphia maps, 1682-1982; townships, districts, wards Family History Library
Philadelphia naturalization records : an index to records of aliens' declarations of intention and/or oaths of allegiance, 1789-1880, in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia Family History Library
Philadelphia wills and administration indexes Family History Library
Philadelphia wills, 1724-1802 [abstracts] Family History Library
Philadelphia, 1789-1880 Naturalization Records
Philadelphia, 1800-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1709-60
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Indentures, 1771-1773
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chinese Arrivals, 1900-1923
Plans for the construction and raising of the Chevaux de Frize in the Delaware River, 1775-1784 Family History Library
Poor tax duplicate, 1767-1853 Family History Library
Prison births, 1858-1879 Family History Library
Prisoners for trial docket, 1790-1882 Family History Library
Proceedings in lunacy, 1889-1913 Family History Library
Proprietary tax list of Philadelphia County & City, 1769, pertaining to the inhabitants of Philadelphia County (including that area which became Montgomery County in 1784) and the city of Philadelphia Family History Library
Proprietary, supply, and state tax lists of the city and county of Philadelphia Family History Library
Proprietor list under grant to Baron Bastrop : for land in Ouachita Parish (County), Louisiana Family History Library
Quaker history : the bulletin of Friends Historical Association Family History Library
Recorded by the Registrar General of the Province 1685-1689 US Gen Web Archives
Records of the Redstone Baptist Church : being an account of the gathering, settling, order, & continuance of the church of baptised believers inhabiting in the counties of Philadelphia & Bucks, in the province of Pennsylvania & in the town & county of Burlington in the province of New Jersey Family History Library
Records, 1713-1784 Family History Library
Register of coasting vessels paying fees, 1809-1824 Family History Library
Register of maintenance of children, ca. 1891-1904 Family History Library
Register of males in out-wards, c.1863-1877 Family History Library
Register of relief recipients, 1814-1815, 1828-1832 Family History Library
Register of the estate of John Dunlap Family History Library
Registration of deaths, 1803-1903; arranged by year and cemetery Family History Library
Remember the dead; an alphabetical list of deaths with the time they occurred, when it could be ascertained Family History Library
Return of absentees of the Philadelphia Militia, 1789 Family History Library
Road docket, 1685-1870 Family History Library
Road petitions, 1699-ca.1800 Family History Library
Roxborough Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, tax assessment ledgers, 1779-1781; Philadelphia County Commissioners Family History Library
Scott's map of the consolidated city of Philadelphia : from the latest records & actual surveys Family History Library
Selected Applications for Land Warrants 1746-1767: Various Cos, PA US Gen Web Archives
Sentence docket, 1794-1887 Family History Library
Seventeenth century survivors : pre-1700 buildings in the five county Philadelphia area Family History Library
Sheriff's deeds, 1736-1851 Family History Library
Sheriff's deeds, 1811-1851 Family History Library
Soldiers of the American Revolution, Philadelphia City, Pennsylvania, including the Districts Family History Library
Soldiers of the American Revolution, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, including Montgomery County Family History Library
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Marriages (1808-1835) US Gen Web Archives
St. Michael Roman Catholic Church Marriages, July 1860 through 1885 (partial) US Gen Web Archives
St. Paul's Marriages, 1810-1811 US Gen Web Archives
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church, Selected Marriages 1863 US Gen Web Archives
Tax and exoneration lists, 1762-1794 ; Minutes of County Commissioners, 1797-1801 Family History Library
Tax list of Philadelphia City and County, 1781-1783 Family History Library
Tax list of Philadelphia County, 1788 Family History Library
Taylor's Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 US Gen Web Archives
The 1693 census of the Swedes on the Delaware : family histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church members residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, west New Jersey and Cecil County, Md., 1638-1693 Family History Library
The First tax list for the province of Pennsylvania and the three lower counties, 1693 Family History Library
The Irish in America : immigration, land, probate, administrations, birth, marriage and burial records of the Irish in America in and about the eighteenth century Family History Library
The Italians of Philadelphia Family History Library
The Pennsylvania gazette, 1728-1800 [electronic resource] Family History Library
The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Obituary Index, 1887-2006
The minor courts of Philadelphia: declarations of intention and petitions for naturalization filed in the Mayors Court 1802-1838, Recorder's Court 1836-1838, Criminal Sessions Court 1838-1840, General Sessions Court 1840-1843 Family History Library
Three Year Regiments- Part III: Taylor's Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 US Gen Web Archives
U.S. Chinese Immigration Case Files, 1883-1924 (INS District No. 4 (Philadelphia), 1900-1923)
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
United States Obituary Collection
Various German Reform Church Marriages (1700's) US Gen Web Archives
Ward case register, women's surgery; 1902-1905 Family History Library
Ward case register; men received and /or remaining in Philadelphia Hospital drunk ward, 1901-1906 Family History Library
Warrantees of Land for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1858 Part 1: Surnames A-K US Gen Web Archives
Warrantees of Land for Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 1733-1858 Part 2: Surnames L-Z US Gen Web Archives
Warrantees of land in the County of Philadelphia, Pa., 1730-1898 Family History Library
Warrants and surveys of the province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759 : transcribed from the records of the Surveyor General's and Proprietaries Secretary's offices by John Hughes, recorder of warrants and surveys under the Act of Assembly July 7, 1759; with a guide to the books and index, an historical background and a copy of the Act Family History Library
Welsh Americans : the manuscript collection, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Family History Library
Will Testators Indexes Sampubco
William Penn Cemetery
Wills, 1682-1916; indexes to wills, 1682-1924 Family History Library
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