Chester County Genealogy
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Chester Countywide Sources
1780 Slave Register US Gen Web
1790 to 1940 U.S. Federal Census World Vital Records
1790-1940 U.S. Federal Census Archives
1790-1940 United States Federal Census
1833 citizens of Chester County, Pa. Family History Library
1881 Chester Pennsylvania County Index Heritage Pursuit
1906-present Pennsylvania Birth Certificates (order here) Archives
1906-present Pennsylvania Death Certificates (order here) Archives
A History of the Octoraro Farmers Club, 1856-1946
A History of the Reformed Churches in Chester County Family History Library
A historical sketch of Lincoln Univeristy Family History Library
A historical survey of the schools in Chester County, Pennsylvania, prior to 1834 Family History Library
A supplement to the account of the survey lands in the county of Chester delivered to the Justices Grand Jury and [Gaelsoro?] in the year 1710 : allherein is contained an account of all lands taken up since the said year 1710 and also a list of lands lately added to several townships in the said county Family History Library
Abstract of wills of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Abstracts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, land records Family History Library
Abstracts of wills of Chester Co., Pa. volume I, 1714-1755 Family History Library
Abstracts of wills of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1714-1844 Family History Library
Additional tax transcripts of townships formerly in Chester County, Pennsylvania and now in Delaware County, Pennsylvania from 1781-1789 Family History Library
Administrations index of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1714-1844 Family History Library
Admission records (pauper records) 1800-1900 Family History Library
American Genealogical Biographical Index Databases World Vital Records
Amish farm and home directory Family History Library
An Historical Sketch of St. Peter's Church, Great Valley, Chester County, Pa
An abstract of Monthly Meeting records containing all dates of marriages, births & deaths recorded by the several Monthly Meetings in Chester County taken from the original records and alphabetically arranged Family History Library
Annals of the Conestoga Valley in Lancaster, Berks, and Chester counties, Pennsylvania... Family History Library
Around the boundaries of Chester County Family History Library
Baptisms and burials of the Baptist Church, 1697-1699 : which usually met at Powell's house at Upper Providence, Chester County, and was dissolved and subsequently formed the Brandywine Baptist Church of Delaware County, 1715-1848 Family History Library
Baptisms by Wm. M. Ridgway (1863-4) US Gen Web Archives
Baptisms in St Pauls Church, Chester County, Pennsylvania Ancestors At Rest
BillionGraves Cemetery Records Index Family Search
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Internet Archive) Internet Archive
Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chester County, Pennsylvania : comprising a historical sketch of the county Family History Library
Birth, marriage and death records, 1852-1893 Family History Library
Births, deaths and marriages of the Nottingham Quakers, 1680-1889 Family History Library
Births, marriages, deaths, etc., as recorded by Caleb Taylor, 1755-1899 Family History Library
Book of levies, 1699-1749 Family History Library
Boyd's Chester County directory : 1884-85, containing a complete general and business directory of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville, and oxford, a business directory of all the other towns and villages of the county, together with an accurate list of all the farmers of the county, and an appendix of useful information Family History Library
Boyd's Chester County directory : 1886-87, containing a complete, general and business directory of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville, and Oxford, a business directory of all the other towns and villages of the county, together with an accurate list of all the farmers of the county, and an appendix of useful information Family History Library
Boyd's Chester County directory : 1888-89, containing a complete general and business directory of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville and Oxford, a business directory of all the other towns and villages of the county, together with a list of the farmers ... Family History Library
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania Directory, 1884-85
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania Directory, 1886-87
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania Directory, 1888-89
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania directory : 1896-97 Family History Library
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania directory : 1904-1905, containing a general directory of the cities of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville, Downingtown, Oxford, Kennett Square and Berwyn, and a business directory of the county, to which is added a list by towns of the business and professional men of the county, a complete list of farmers and an appendix of useful information Family History Library
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania directory, 1896-97
Boyd's Chester County, Pennsylvania directory, 1904-05
Boyd's directory of Lancaster, Columbia, Chester and West Chester, 1874-75 : to which is added a business directory of the principal places in Lancaster, Chester and Delaware counties Family History Library
Breou's official series of farm maps, Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Burial records and gravestone inscriptions of Chester County, 1801-1887 Family History Library
Calendar of wills Family History Library
Cemetery and church records, 1700-1968 Family History Library
Cemetery and undertaker records, 1885-1968 Family History Library
Cemetery records from Berks, Centre, Chester, Huntingdon, Schuylkill Counties, Pennsylvania, and Claiborne, Alabama : also Prather, Prince George County, Maryland Family History Library
Centennial the Settlement, Formation and Progress of Dauphine County, Pennsylvania, from 1785 to 1876 Open Library
Chester (Pennsylvania) city directories Family History Library
Chester Co., Pennsylvania, miscellaneous Bible records Family History Library
Chester County & its day Family History Library
Chester County (Pennsylvania) bibliography Family History Library
Chester County (Pennsylvania) directories Family History Library
Chester County (Pennsylvania) legal practitioners to 1960 Family History Library
Chester County (Pennsylvania) medical practitioners to 1940 Family History Library
Chester County Biographies US Gen Web
Chester County Wills US Gen Web
Chester County and its people Family History Library
Chester County collections Family History Library
Chester County place names Family History Library
Chester County taxes, 1781-1789, for that part of the county which became Delaware County Family History Library
Chester County, PA, death and marriages records, 1858-1861 Family History Library
Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825
Chester County, Pennsylvania burials, 1852-1855 Family History Library
Chester County, Pennsylvania cemetery inscriptions Family History Library
Chester County, Pennsylvania land ownership maps, 1847, 1856 and 1860 Family History Library
Chester County, Pennsylvania, area key : a guide to the genealogical records of Chester County, Pennsylvania including maps, histories, charts and other helpful materials Family History Library
Chester County, Pennsylvania, warrants & surveys, letters H-T, 1701-1727 Family History Library
Chester County, Pennsylvania, wills & administrations, 1713-1850, index Family History Library
Church records, 1835-1869 [Oxford Methodist Circuit] Family History Library
Church records, 1860-1878 [Elk Ridge Methodist] Family History Library
Church records, 1868-1898 [Conestoga Evangelical Circuit] Family History Library
Citizens who joined the British Army in 1778 US Gen Web
Commissioners minute book of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1777-1781 Family History Library
Commissioners' minutes, 1740-1780 Family History Library
Complete index to church records of the Society of Friends, Goshen area Family History Library
Court records including marriages 1792-1796 for the county of Chester, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Court records of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 and petitions for licenses, 1717-1750 Family History Library
Court records of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1712 Family History Library
Coventry, the Skool Kill District : a basic history of the three Coventry townships, 1700-1850 Family History Library
Darby Monthly Meeting Deaths (1758-1769) US Gen Web Archives
Darby Monthly Meeting Deaths (1776-1789) US Gen Web Archives
Darby, Sadbury, Nottingham monthly meetings [1682-1868] [extract] Family History Library
Deaths and burials in my knowledge comm. 1804-1833 Family History Library
Decedants' estate papers, 1716-1810; index, 1716-1880 Family History Library
Deeds 1688-1903 ; Index to deeds 1688-1922 Family History Library
Delaware County, Pennsylvania; the taxables in the assessment list of 1715 and Swedish inhabitants 1693 Family History Library
Diocesan confirmation registers, 1911-1950 (Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)) Family History Library
Dockets, 1812-1924 Family History Library
Dockets, v. 1-3, 1802-1911 Family History Library
Down the Eastern and up the Black Brandywine Family History Library
Elverson Methodist Episcopal Church, Elverson, Pennsylvania, and tombstone inscriptions Family History Library
Enterys of the Orphans Court of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1716-1730, 1732-1734 Family History Library
Estate papers, 1713-1810 Family History Library
Extracts from Reformed Church records of Pennsylvania and Maryland, Vol. I. Family History Library
Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church in Chester County, Pennsylvania
Farm and Business Directory of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Farm and Business Directory of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1914 World Vital Records
Farm and business directory of Chester County, Pennsylvania : with a complete road map of the county Family History Library
Federal Land Patents Bureau of Land Management
Find A Grave Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection World Vital Records
First and last name index to the History of Chester County, Pennsylvania by J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope Family History Library
First families of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
First landowners of Pennsylvania : Colonial and State Warrant Registers, 1682-1945 Family History Library
Free Blacks, 1790 census
Genealogical charts (birth, marriage and death certificates) at the Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania Family History Library
General Index to the Colonial Records, in 16 Volumes, and to the Pennsylvania Archives [1St Series] in 12 Volumes Making of America
Gravestone inscriptions of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1836-1939 Family History Library
Guide to records of the Court of Common Pleas, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1900 : records of the prothonotary, civil records of the sheriff, select civil records of the Circuit Court of Chester County and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Family History Library
Guide to records of the Court of Quarter Sessions, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1969 : records of the Clerk of Courts, records of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery, criminal records of the Sheriff Family History Library
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Chester and Delaware counties, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Historical atlas of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Historical sketch of the Baptist Church at Great Valley, Chester Co., Penna. Family History Library
Historical sketch of the Honeybrook Presbyterian Church of Waynesburg, Chester County, Pa., delivered July 2d, 1876 Family History Library
Histories and genealogies of Southeast Pennsylvania Family History Library
History and Progress of Chester County
History and progress of Chester County Family History Library
History of Chester Co., Pennsylvania Family History Library
History of Chester County Pennsylvania (1881) Internet Archive
History of Chester County, Penna
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania World Vital Records
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania : With Genealogical and Biographical Sketches
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania with genealogical and biographical sketches Family History Library
History of Chester county, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches Family History Library
History of Scottish dissenting Presbyterianism in Chester County, PA : being an account of Associate, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church of North America clergy and congregations Family History Library
History of the Presbyterian Church of Fagg's Manor, Chester Co., Pa., 1730-1876
History of the Presbyterian Church of the Great (Chester) Valley Family History Library
History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania Internet Archive
If thee must fight : a Civil War history of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Index of Civil War soldiers & sailors from Chester County, Pa Family History Library
Index of all names from original will books 1-10 (1713/14 thru Jan. 9, 1804) in Chester County Court House, West Chester, Pa Family History Library
Index to C.Z. Mast and R.E. Simpson's Annals of Conestoga Valley Family History Library
Index to Chester County (Pennsylvania) biography Family History Library
Index to Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills and Intestate Records, 1713-1850
Index to Chester County, Pennsylvania, wills and intestate records, 1713-1850 Family History Library
Index to families and persons; History of Chester County, Pennsylvania with genealogical and biographical sketches Family History Library
Index to old rights in Bucks and Chester Counties, 1682-1761 Family History Library
Judgements, 1795-1796, by John Graves, Justice of the Peace in Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Just over the line : Chester County and the underground railroad ; a catalogue to accompany an exhibition organized by the Chester County Historical Society Family History Library
Letters of Attorney of Chester County, Pennsylvania, A-1 to B-2, 1774-1816 Family History Library
Letters of attorney, 1814-1903 Family History Library
List of magistrates in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1791-1838 Family History Library
List of marriages recorde [sic] in the Clerk's records that have taken place in Goshen Friends Meeting House (Orthocox) from 1814 to 1889 Family History Library
Listing of inhabitants in 1765, Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Map of the public roads in Chester County, Pennsylvania : constructed from actual surveys made under direction of the Department of Highways, by authority of an Act of Assembly approved May 31, 1911 Family History Library
Marriage docket, 1852-1899 Family History Library
Marriage records, 1885-1967 Family History Library
Marriage, death and burial records of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1768-1874 Family History Library
Marriages Recorded at East Vincent's Reformed Church (1821-33) US Gen Web Archives
Marriages in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1811-1862 Family History Library
Marriages of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1737-1907 Family History Library
Marriages, 1822-1866, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, by John W. Thomas Justice of the Peace Family History Library
Marriages, 1878-1940, at Lancaster County and Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Master index, Chester County Historical Society Family History Library
Master index; Chester County authors and index to county and state histories Family History Library
Military roll for Civil War, ca. 1861-1863 Family History Library
Minors' estate papers, 1717-1820; index, 1717-1880 Family History Library
Minutes and membership list of the Glen Run Baptist Church, Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Minutes of the Provincial Court & Provincial taxes of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1756-1778 Family History Library
Minutes, 1758-1779 [Western Quarterly Meeting] Family History Library
Mortgage records, 1774-1852; index to mortgages, 1628-1920 Family History Library
Mortgages and valuations for Bedford, Chester, Cumberland, Philadelphia, and York Counties Family History Library
Most Blessed Sacrament Church, Bally, Pennsylvania : originally known as St. Paul's Chapel of Goshenhoppen, Berks County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Name index; History of Chester Co. by Futhey & Cope [at the Chester County Historical Society] Family History Library
Naturalization records, 1798-1906 Family History Library
Newspaper clippings of births, deaths, and marriages, 1868-1876 Family History Library
Oaths of Allegiance, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Taken Before the Justices of the Peace, 1777-1785
Oaths of allegiance and fidelity, 1777-1785 Family History Library
Oaths of allegiance, Chester County, Pennsylvania, taken before the Justices of the Peace, 1777-1785 Family History Library
Old Eagle School Burying Grounds
Orphans Court Minutes, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1734-1746/7 Family History Library
Orphans' Court Records, 1716-1850 ; Index to Minors' Estates and Decedents' Estates, 1716-1885 Family History Library
Pauper records, admissions, 1859-1910 Family History Library
Pennsylvania (state) directories Family History Library
Pennsylvania Amish directory, 1973 : Lancaster and Chester County districts Family History Library
Pennsylvania Births, 1852-1854
Pennsylvania County Marriages, 1885 - 1950 Family Search
Pennsylvania German Marriages: Marriages and Marriage Evidence in Pennsylvania German Churches World Vital Records
Pennsylvania Marriage Records, 1700-1821
Pennsylvania Records of Marriages, 1885-1889
Pennsylvania births, Chester County, 1682-1800 Family History Library
Pennsylvania burial grounds Family History Library
Pennsylvania wills, 1682-1834 Family History Library
Pennsylvania, Births and Christenings, 1709-1950 Family Search
Pennsylvania, Chester County, 1842 state census index Family History Library
Pennsylvania, Chester County, 1857 state census index Family History Library
Pennsylvania, Eastern District Petitions for Naturalization, 1795-1931 Family Search
Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940 Family Search
Petitions, 1720-1750 Family History Library
Pikeland in the County of Chester in the state of Pennsylvania : contains 11,920 acres and 76 perches Family History Library
Pottstown area necrology Family History Library
Pre-1868 parish registers of the Diocese of Wilmington Family History Library
Private school attendance to 1834 Family History Library
Proprietary tax lists of the county of Chester Family History Library
Quarter Session docket, 1714-1906 Family History Library
Radnor tax records including minutes, relief of the poor, etc., 1765-1810 Family History Library
Record of births and deaths, Little Britain M.M., est. 1804 [extract] Family History Library
Record of marriages from American Republican, 1815-1845 Family History Library
Record of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Record of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 Family History Library
Record of the courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Records from family Bibles in the possession of the Chester County Historical Society Family History Library
Records of the Orphans Court : including the index, docket, partition docket, recognizance docket, administrators accounts and auditors reports Family History Library
Records of the Orphans Court for Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1747-1761 Family History Library
Records of the courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Records of wills, 1850-1924 Family History Library
Records, 1718-1852 Family History Library
Red Coats in Chester County
Red coats in Chester County Family History Library
Register of births and deaths, Chester County, Pa., 1893-1907 Family History Library
Registration of births, marriages, and deaths, 1852-1855 Family History Library
Reminiscence, Gleanings and Thoughts
Reminiscence, gleanings & thoughts, [nos. 1 & 2] Family History Library
Revolutionary War Officers from Chester County US Gen Web
Road from near Centre House to Cobbs Creek laid out in 1785 Family History Library
School book; a list of children returned by the assessors of the different townships of Chester County, 1811-1815, 1826-1835 Family History Library
Selected Applications for Land Warrants 1746-1767: Various Cos, PA US Gen Web Archives
Septennial census for 1857; list of taxable inhabitants taken in 1856 in Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Septennial enumeration of the taxable inhabitants, slaves, etc., 1842 Family History Library
Seventeenth century survivors : pre-1700 buildings in the five county Philadelphia area Family History Library
Sheriff's deeds, 1775-1905, with index to grantee and grantor Family History Library
Sheriffs' deeds index for 1773-1876, & Sheriffs' deed books, nos. 1-5, 1773-1850, Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Side Lights On the Bench and Bar of Chester County
Side lights on the bench and bar of Chester County Family History Library
Sketches of early schools of Twin Valley : Caernarvon and Robeson Townships of Berks County, Elverson and Honey Brook Boroughs, Honey Brook and West Nantmeal Townships of Chester County Family History Library
St. Paul's Episcopal Church Marriages, 1704-1733 US Gen Web Archives
Tavern petitions and index, 1700-1800 Family History Library
Tax and exoneration lists, 1764-1788, for Chester County Family History Library
Tax list of Chester County, 1768 : pertaining to the inhabitants of Chester County, including the present-day county of Delaware Family History Library
Tax list of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1693-1774 Family History Library
Tax lists to 1900 Family History Library
Tax lists, 1699-1758, 1775-1783, 1800 Family History Library
Tax records, 1715-1820 Family History Library
Tax transcripts, 1715-1900 Family History Library
Taxables of Bradford and West Bradford, Pennsylvania, 1726-1763 Family History Library
Taxables of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1753 Family History Library
The Cheyney burial ground, on Concord Road, north of Cheney Station, Chester County, Pa. Family History Library
The First tax list for the province of Pennsylvania and the three lower counties, 1693 Family History Library
The Pennsylvania genealogical catalogue Family History Library
The history of the Welsh Tract Church and the life of Elder John Green Eubanks Family History Library
The potters and potteries of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
The trackless trail leads on : an exploration of conductors and their stations Family History Library
The wayside inns on the Lancaster roadside between Philadelphia and Lancaster Family History Library
Town Talk [Chester County Edition] (PA) 3/26/2007-12/31/2008
Transcript tax of the fourteenth, eighteenth pence rate for the County of Chester, Pennsylvania, 1771 Family History Library
U.S. City Directories (includes Chester County 1884-90, 1896-99)
U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 Family Search
Undertaker's records to 1968 Family History Library
United States Obituary Collection
Upper Octorara Presbyterian Church 1870 Anniversary Genealogy Today
Various Baptist Churches in Chester County US Gen Web Archives
War of 1812: Third Division 1812-14, Chester and Delaware Cos US Gen Web Archives
Welsh tract of Pennsylvania; the early settlers Family History Library
West Bradford census of 1790 Family History Library
Will Testators Indexes Sampubco
Wills of Chester County, Pennsylvania Family History Library
Wills, 1713-1854 ; Index to Wills, 1713-1923 Family History Library
[Map of lands on the Elk River in Chester Co., Pennsylvania made in Dec. of 1763] Family History Library
[Maps of the London Company in Delaware and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania] Family History Library
More Chester County records are available on the statewide page