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Obtaining a birth certificate from Pennsylvania?
« on: Saturday 04 April 09 09:26 UTC (UK) »
It's taken a while and from originally being told my Great Grandmother was born in Baltimore, Maryland, I now know that she was, in fact, born in Pennsylvania.  Her parents took the family from Co. Durham (went for the mining work I think) and returned to England a few years later, but in the meantime my Great Grandmother was born.  I would love to get a birth certificate for her but have no idea how to!  Her details are as follows:

Emily Brown
DOB: 14/04/1889
Crabtree, (Westmoreland?), Pennsylvania

If anyone could please help, that would be fantastic!

Many thanks,

Emma Wink
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Re: Obtaining a birth certificate from Pennsylvania?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 04 April 09 11:48 UTC (UK) »
You would need to contact the courthouse in the county where she was born.  There's a link here to find the address:  http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/cwp/view.asp?a=168&Q=202352
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Re: Obtaining a birth certificate from Pennsylvania?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 04 April 09 12:16 UTC (UK) »
Thanks for the info!  She's the only ancestor I have at the moment who was born outside of England...how inconsiderate!! Grin

Thanks again,

Emma Wink
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Re: Obtaining a birth certificate from Pennsylvania?
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 05 April 09 19:22 UTC (UK) »
Hi Emsworthy: Sorry to disappoint. Birth certificates in Pennsylvania are available from the Pennsylvania Department of Health only after 1905. Before then birth records were kept (when they were kept at all) at the county level.

I checked the Westmoreland County website and found this on the page for the Register of Wills (which also holds marriage and some birth records): "The birth records for Westmoreland County Register of Wills are from 1893 to 1905 (There is an incomplete set of birth, death and marriage records from 1852 to 1855)...."

You can e-mail the Westmoreland County Register of Wills Earl Keim at the following address: ekeim@co.westmoreland.pa.us. Perhaps he might be able to give you information on whether not birth records from 1889 might be available elsewhere.

You can also e-mail the Westmoreland County Historical Society. Their website is http://www.starofthewest.org. Click on How to Reach Us on the left. Unfortunately, the historical society charges for genealogical searches, but they might know of churches in the area where your great grandmother might have been baptized.

There is a website dedicated to the history of mining in Western Pennsylvania. You can read about the history of the two coal mines in Crabtree here: http://patheoldminer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/indexc.html. The Crabtree mines are down near the bottom of the page.

I grew up 25 miles to the west of that area and can tell you that it is still fairly rural, though it is only a few miles from the county seat of Greensburg and only forty miles east of Pittsburgh, the former industrial engine of the U.S. I spent two years at a university in that area and used to drive through Crabtree on my way back home. The mining website has a picture of Crabtree from 1975. I don't think that it changed much from the 1880s, except for the automobiles, of course.

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John  Shocked Shocked Shocked
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Re: Obtaining a birth certificate from Pennsylvania?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 27 June 09 20:44 UTC (UK) »
Hello John,

Thanks for your reply...sorry I didn't reply to you sooner - I didn't know it was here!!

Lots of useful information...will let you know how I get on!

Thanks again,

Regards, Emma
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