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An index is available on the website of the [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1085804&mode=2 Division of Vital Records] and at the Pennsylvania Archives. When visiting the Archives, researchers will be limited to ten certificates per day for records with known file numbers. No telephone or e-mail requests in advance of one's visit to the Archives will be accepted. Researchers should plan to allow a minimum of 20-40 minutes for retrieval of these records.  
An index is available on the website of the [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1085804&mode=2 Division of Vital Records] and at the Pennsylvania Archives. When visiting the Archives, researchers will be limited to ten certificates per day for records with known file numbers. No telephone or e-mail requests in advance of one's visit to the Archives will be accepted. Researchers should plan to allow a minimum of 20-40 minutes for retrieval of these records.  


Currently records for this time period are being scanned by Ancestry and should appear on their website by the end of 2013.  
Records for this time period are available through Ancestry.
:*Currently 1906-24 death certificates are available
Additional records will be released as follows:
:*1925-44 death certificates - June 2014
:*1945-63 death certificates - November 2014
:*1906 birth certificates - March 2015


Copies of death certificates, 1906-1963, may be requested from the Pennsylvania Archives by mail:<br>
Copies of death certificates, 1906-1963, may be requested from the Pennsylvania Archives by mail:<br>  


:*[http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_25699_3144_382943_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_environment/phmc/communities/extranet/archivalprograms/relayarchivespage/mailrefinstuctucontent/mailreferenceorderform2012a.pdf Pennsylvania State Archives]<br>350 North Street<br>Harrisburg, PA 17120-0090<br>Phone: (717) 783-3281
:*[http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_25699_3144_382943_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_environment/phmc/communities/extranet/archivalprograms/relayarchivespage/mailrefinstuctucontent/mailreferenceorderform2012a.pdf Pennsylvania State Archives]<br>350 North Street<br>Harrisburg, PA 17120-0090<br>Phone: (717) 783-3281


Death certificates from 1906 to the present can also be obtained from:<br>
Death certificates from 1906 to the present can also be obtained from:<br>  


:*[http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/death_and_fetal_death_certificates/14122/death_records_-_by_mail/556827 Division of Vital Records]<br>ATTN: Public Records<br>P.O. Box 1528<br>New Castle, PA 16103<br>Phone: (724) 656-3100<br>
:*[http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/death_and_fetal_death_certificates/14122/death_records_-_by_mail/556827 Division of Vital Records]<br>ATTN: Public Records<br>P.O. Box 1528<br>New Castle, PA 16103<br>Phone: (724) 656-3100<br>
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