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Subject: Vital records pre 1906 and which courthouse ?
Date: 04 Jun 1997
Name: Webmaster
E-Mail: webmaster@chartiers.com

Text of Message: A reader writes:
> I am at a standstill in my genealogy research for my ancestors
> from the Washington County PA. area. I am in high hopes that you will
> be able to provide me with the address of where to write for information
> I wish to obtain before 1906 time line. In specific, I am looking to
> get in touch with the local courthouse for the area of Amity and also
> Peters Township. I wish to obtain any birth and death records they may
> have on my family!
The courthouse you need to contact is the Washington County
Courthouse in Washington, PA. (See the www.chartiers.com web
page for their address.)
If you have approximate birth/death dates, you may ask them to look in
their pre-1906 birth/death records for the ones you're interested in.
If you don't have approximate dates for these events, then there's another alternative.
Find an LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints aka, Morman) Family History
Center close by your house (look in the telephone white pages). They have all the
Washington Co., PA courthouse records on microfilm which you can order from Salt Lake
City and view in the local Family History Library. I've done this
many times. (I'm not LDS.)
Other than that, you might have to plan a trip to Washington, PA to personally visit the
courthouse. Or as a last alternative, you might hire a professional researcher
in the area (I can't recommend one, very few have come forward ---see the web page for
regional researchers.)

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Subject:		Vital records pre 1906 and which courthouse ?
Date:		04 Jun 1997
Name:		Webmaster
E-Mail:		webmaster@chartiers.com
Text of Message:		A reader writes: > I am at a standstill in my genealogy research for my ancestors > from the Washington County PA. area. I am in high hopes that you will > be able to provide me with the address of where to write for information > I wish to obtain before 1906 time line. In specific, I am looking to > get in touch with the local courthouse for the area of Amity and also > Peters Township. I wish to obtain any birth and death records they may > have on my family! The courthouse you need to contact is the Washington County Courthouse in Washington, PA. (See the www.chartiers.com web page for their address.) If you have approximate birth/death dates, you may ask them to look in their pre-1906 birth/death records for the ones you're interested in. If you don't have approximate dates for these events, then there's another alternative. Find an LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints aka, Morman) Family History Center close by your house (look in the telephone white pages). They have all the Washington Co., PA courthouse records on microfilm which you can order from Salt Lake City and view in the local Family History Library. I've done this many times. (I'm not LDS.) Other than that, you might have to plan a trip to Washington, PA to personally visit the courthouse. Or as a last alternative, you might hire a professional researcher in the area (I can't recommend one, very few have come forward ---see the web page for regional researchers.)