Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Genealogy

United States Oklahoma  Pittsburg County Pittsburg County, Oklahoma genealogy and family history research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

County Courthouse
Pittsburg County Courthouse 115 E Carl Albert Parkway McAlester, OK 74501 Phone: 918.423-6865 County Health Department has birth, death and burial records; Clerk Court has marriage, divorce, probate and court records from 1890; County Clerk has land records from 1890

Parent County
1907--Pittsburg County was created 16 July 1907 from Choctaw Lands. County seat: McAlester

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Neighboring Counties

 * Atoka
 * Coal
 * Haskell
 * Hughes
 * Latimer
 * McIntosh
 * Pushmataha

Newspapers
Oklahoma Newspapers Online Oklahoma Newspaper Catalogs
 * GenealogyBank - ($), contains images of Oklahoma newspapers
 * Newspaper Archive - ($), contains images of Nebraska newspapers
 * Chronicling America - contains images of some Oklahoma newspapers; searching tips
 * Elephind - Free; search engine that retrieves newspaper images from other free newspaper websites
 * Oklahoma State Historical Society - catalog of known Oklahoma newspapers; lists repositories that have the newspapers
 * U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present on Chronicling America - contains a list of all known newspapers and the dates they cover; once you locate a newspaper name, contact the local library to see if they have copies of the newspaper

Probate
Online Records
 * 1801 – 2008 Oklahoma Wills and Probate Records 1801-2008 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1887 – 2008 Oklahoma Probate Records 1887-2008 at FamilySearch — images

School Records

 * 1895 - 1936 at | FamilySearch — index and images

Marriage

 * 1890–1995 -  at FamilySearch — index and images

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * McAlester Oklahoma Family History Center

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.