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Task
Wiki Project Pennsylvania Tasks - Vital Records: Ancestry Task

Description
There are 2 parts to this task: A) Add a general Ancestry database and B) to locate pertinent vital record databases on Ancestry.com for the county.

PART A
1. Go to the county you are working on. Edit the page and change to wikitext.

2. Scroll down to, Vital Records.

3. Add in Heading 5, "County-wide Database " It should be after the general description of the vital records for the county and before the headings of the individual birth, marriage or death records.

4. While in wikitext dd the following under the heading you just created:

*1700-1821 - Pennsylvania Marriage Records Ancestry.com – ($) This database is incomplete for all counties.

*Pre-1810 – Pennsylvania Marriages Ancestry.com – ($) This database is incomplete for all counties. Includes 35,000 marriage records from vol. VIII of of the second series of the Pennsylvania Archives.

PART B
1. Search Ancestry.com (AncestryInstitution.com)

2. To the right of the webpage, click on the county you are working on. A list of all applicable databases for that county will appear.

3.Vital records are listed in "Birth Marriage and Death." Sometimes you need to click on "View all Pennsylvania Birth, Marriage, and Death" to see the full list.

4.Review the databases list in this county.

5. List each applicable database from Ancestry under the correct birth, marriage, divorce or death heading and after any written description about the heading in chronological order and then alphabetical order in the following manner:


 * WITHOUT DATES IN TITLE


 * :*Pennsylvania Quaker Records at Ancestry.com - ($); book transcription.


 * WITH DATES IN TITLE


 * :*1876-1906 Berks County, Pennsylvania Births, 1876-1906 at Ancestry.com - ($); index only.

6. When adding a database with dates in the title, repeat the dates just after the bullet in bold. Make sure to use the N–dash between the dates and anytime it is used in wiki text. The N–dash is made by holding the alt key and typing 0150:

7. After each database listed, add any helpful info about the database after the $ in the entry such as, "not complete" or "index only" or "index and images". See examples above.

8. When linking Ancestry databases, be sure to use www.ancestry.com and not www.ancestryinstitution.com.

Birth

 * 1876 - 1906 Berks County, Pennsylvania Births, 1876-1906 at Ancestry.com - $; index only

Marriage

 * 1885–1929 Berks County, Pennsylvania Marriages, 1885-1929 at Ancestry.com - $; index only. Includes instructions on how to order copies of the original records.

Birth

 * 1726-1930 - - free index. Not complete for all years.
 * 1852-1855, 1893-1907  Births Delayed Birth Records (Chester County Archives)
 * 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Births Ancestry.com – ($) Index with images.

Marriage

 * 1690-1890 Marriage Contracts, Separations and Certificates, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1700-1821 - Pennsylvania Marriage Records Ancestry.com – ($) This database is incomplete for all counties.
 * 1725-1976 - - free index. Not complete for all years.
 * Pre-1810 – Pennsylvania Marriages Ancestry.com – ($) This database is incomplete for all counties. Includes 35,000 marriage records from vol. VIII of of the second series of the Pennsylvania Archives.
 * 1852-1855, 1885-1930  Marriages, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1885-1930 Marriages License Applications, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1793-1813 - Harlan, Geo. Passmore. "Marriages by Moses Marshall, Esq., Marshalton, Pa.," Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jun. 1908):190-196. For free online access, see WeRelate; the Family History Library also has this series in its collection:.
 * 1795-1832 - "Marriages by John Graves, Esquire, West Chester, Pa.," Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Mar. 1909):101-113. For free online access, see WeRelate; the Family History Library also has this series in its collection:.

Divorce
Divorce records are handled by the office of the Prothonotary. While no on-line indexes or records are available, records may be obtained by visiting or writing to the Prothonotary at:

Chester County's Prothonotary's Office 201 W. Market Street Suite 1425 P.O. Box 2746 West Chester, PA 19380-0989 Phone: 610-344-6300

Death

 * 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Deaths Ancestry.com – ($) Index with images.
 * 1852-1855, 1893-1906 Deaths, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1720-1957 Coroners' Records, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1875-1893 Proof of Death Registers, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1885-1979 Veterans' Burials, (Chester County Archives)
 * 1893-1907 Chester County (Pennsylvania) Register of Deaths, Alphabetized listing of thousands of names including last name, first name, race, gender, age, marital status, place of birth, date and place of death, cause, volume and page number.