Warren County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

Guide to Warren County, Pennsylvania ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Description
Warren is located in the west-central area of the state.

County Courthouse
Warren County Courthouse 407 Market Street Warren, PA 16365 Phone: 814-728-3440 Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts: 814-728-3440 Register of Wills and Clerk of Orphans' Court: 814-728-3430 Warren County Website Register and Recorder has birth and death records 1893-1906, marriage records from 1885, probate and land records from 1819 Prothonotary Office has divorce and court records

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Cemeteries

 * Cemetery records often reveal birth, marriage, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

Additional Cemetery Resources
 * ca.1700-ca.1950  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images (incomplete)
 * PA-Roots
 * Names in Stone
 * Ancestry ($)

Census Records
Federal Census
 * 1850-1880  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Church Records

 * Visit Warren County, Pennsylvania Church Records for information about church denominations and records in Warren County.

Court Records

 * 1858-1893 (*); Justice of the Peace at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Emigration and Immigration

 * 1798-1828  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; Alphabet index then by numbered entry
 * 1900-1923  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images only (by county)
 * 1952-1957   at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Funeral Homes

 * Borden Funeral Home in Sheffield
 * Donald E. Lewis Funeral Home, Inc. in Warren
 * McKinney Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, Inc. in Youngsville
 * Nelson Funeral Home & Cremation Services in Youngsville
 * Peterson-Blick Funeral Home, Inc. in Warren

Land and Property Records
Land records in Warren County began in 1800. These records are filed with the Register-Recorder office in Warren, Pennsylvania.

Online Land Indexes and Records
 * 1819-1897 Deeds, 1819-1884; Index to Deeds, 1819 -1897 - images only; click on the camera icon to view images
 * Dates Vary United States Wills and Deeds Experimental Search at FamilySearch - incomplete index and images, counties and dates vary

Local Histories

 * History of Warren County, Pennsylvania. 1887. Edited by J. S. Schenck. Syracuse, New York : D. Mason. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Hathitrust, Internet Archive;.

Maps and Gazetteers
Maps
 * Maps of Pennsylvania (1673-1878)
 * Ancestor Tracks has posted free, downloadable images from the 1878 Howden &amp; Odbert's Atlas of Warren County, Pennsylvania from Actual Surveys &amp; Records by &amp; under the Direction of J.A. Howden &amp; A. Odbert (Washington, PA: F.G. Longdon and Wilson Porter, 1878). This atlas on file in the Library of Congress shows major landowners and geographic sites at the date of publishing. While the physical maps are in the public domain, the images we have taken of the maps belong to us and are not to be used commercially.  We hereby give permission to use them strictly for personal use; please attribute to Ancestor Tracks.
 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Military Records
Civil War
 * 1861-1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1865-1936  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

World War I
 * World War I Photographs of Warren County World War I Soldiers from the book "Warren County Boys Over There," 1918.

World War II
 * 1933-1947  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1795-1931  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1795-1952  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Online Naturalization Indexes and Records
 * 1820-1906  Index to Declarations and Petitions in the Western District of Pennsylvania, US Circuit and District Courts located in US Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995 database on Ancestry $
 * 1820-1930  Naturalization Petitions of the U.S. District Court, 1820-1930, and Circuit Court, 1820-1911, for the Western District of Pennsylvania on Fold3.com - ($), indexed, National Archives publication M1537, incomplete for all counties
 * 1820-1930  Naturalization Petitions of the U.S. District Court, 1820-1930, and Circuit Court, 1820-1911, for the Western District of Pennsylvania located in Selected US Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1790-1974 database on Ancestry $
 * 1847-1906 Alien dockets, 1847-1906,  - images only; click on the camera icon to view images

Newspapers
Newspapers of Warren County

Online Newspapers

To learn if there are newspapers online for a specific town or city in Pennsylvania, see news.google.com/newspapers and search for the town or the name of a newspaper.


 * Chronicling America US Newspaper Directory.
 * Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive
 * Pennsylvania Newspapers

Online Newspaper Abstracts


 * PA-Roots Newspaper Articles for Warren County, Pennsylvania.
 * Warren County, Pennsylvania Newspapers Part of the PAGenWeb Project including links to transcribed newspaper extractions of "birth and marriage announcements, land transactions, obituaries and gossip columns."

Obituaries

 * 1947-2010  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1977-2010  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Online Obituary Abstracts
 * PA-Roots Obituaries for Warren County, Pennsylvania.
 * Warren County, Pennsylvania Obituaries Part of the PAGenWeb Project

Book Obituary Abstracts
 * Compiled by Joan M. McRae, Marriage and Death Notices Extracted from Warren County, Pennsylvania Newspapers (Olmsted Falls, Ohio:J.M. McRae, c1982-1983) ;

Probate Records
Online Probate Indexes and Records
 * 1683-1993 Pennsylvania Wills and Probate Records 1683-1993 at Ancestry ($)
 * 1683-1994  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images
 * 1785-1859 (*); at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1820-1971 (*); Register of Wills at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1820-1971 Warren County Probate Records at FamilySearch
 * 1844-1947 (*); Orphans' Court at FamilySearch Catalog — index & images
 * 1875-1916 (*); Register of Wills at FamilySearch Catalog — images

Social Security Records

 * 1935-2014  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index. Also at Ancestry, findmypast, Fold3, GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, and Steve Morse. Click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 at Ancestry ($) — index, click here for more information.
 * 1936-2007 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index

Birth

 * 1520-1999  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1709-1950  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * 1941-1976  at FamilySerch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Marriage

 * 1512-1989  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1626-2016 Pennsylvania, United States Marriages at Findmypast
 * 1677-1950 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1682-1976  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1700-1821 Pennsylvania Marriage Records Ancestry $
 * 1709-1940  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index
 * Pre-1810 Pennsylvania Marriages Ancestry $
 * 1852-1854 Pennsylvania Marriages Ancestry $
 * 1885-1950 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1947-2010  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images

Death

 * 1720-1999  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index, some images
 * 1852-1854  Pennsylvania Deaths Ancestry $
 * 1856-1971  at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * 1893-1906  Warren County Death Index 1893-1906 in International Genealogical Index at FamilySearch.

Divorce
Divorce records are available through the office of the Prothonotary.

Archives
National Archives at Philadelphia 14700 Townsend Rd Philadelphia, PA 19154-1096 Phone: 215-305-2044 Fax: 215-305-2052 Email: [mailto:philadelphia.archives@nara.gov philadelphia.archives@nara.gov] Website Facebook

FamilySearch Centers

 * Franklin Pennsylvania FamilySearch Center
 * Jamestown New York FamilySearch Center
 * Cameron County Historical Society - an affiliate library.
 * Erie County Public Library - an affiliate library.
 * James Prendergast Library Association - New York - an affiliate library.

Libraries
Sheffield Township Library 20 Leather St PO Box 607 Sheffield, PA 16347 Phone: 814-968-3439 Email: [mailto:librarian@sheffieldlibrary.org librarian@sheffieldlibrary.org] Website Facebook Sugar Grove Free Library 22 Harmon St PO Box 313 Sugar Grove, PA 16350 Phone: 814-489-7872 Email: [mailto:sgfreelibrary@gmail.com sgfreelibrary@gmail.com] Website Facebook Tidioute Public Library 197 Main St Tidioute, PA 16351-0225 Phone: 814-484-3581 Email: [mailto:librarian@tidioutelibrary.org librarian@tidioutelibrary.org] Website Facebook Warren Public Library 205 Market St Warren, PA 16365 Phone: 814-723-4650 Email: [mailto:web@warrenlibrary.org web@warrenlibrary.org] Website Facebook
 * The Library has a large holding, plus access to HeritageQuest and Ancestry Library Edition.

Youngsville Public Library 100 Broad St Youngsville, PA 16371 Phone: 814-563-7670 Email: [mailto:YoungsvillePublicLibrary@gmail.com YoungsvillePublicLibrary@gmail.com] Website Facebook

Museums
Wilder Museum of Warren County History 51 Erie Avenue P.O. Box 144 Irvine, PA 16329 Phone: 814-563-7773 or 814-723-1795 Email: [mailto:warrenhistory@kinzua.net warrenhistory@kinzua.net] Website Seasonal hours; please check website. The museum is associated with the Warren County Historical Society.

Societies
Warren County Historical Society 210 Fourth Ave Warren, PA 16365 Phone: 814-723-1795 Email: [mailto:warrencountyhistory@aol.com warrencountyhistory@aol.com] Website Facebook Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080 Phone: 412-687-6811 Email: [mailto:info@wpgs.org info@wpgs.org] Website Facebook

Websites

 * PAGenWeb project
 * USGenWeb archives
 * Warren County PA Genealogy
 * – The FamilySearch catalog contains descriptions and access information for all genealogical materials (including books, online materials, microfilm, microfiche, and publications) in their collection.  Use Historical Records to search for specific individuals in genealogical records.