Tioga County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States Pennsylvania Tioga County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Lycoming County 26 March 1804.
 * County Seat: Wellsboro
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Steuben County, New York (north)  •  Lycoming (south)  •  Chemung County, New York (northeast)  •  Potter (west)  •  Bradford (east)

Its name derives from an American Indian word meaning "at the forks," describing a meeting place.

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

Church Records


Additional church records can be located at Linkpendium and by searching the Family History Library Catalog. The FHLC has a plethora offor Tioga County, many are limited in the time frame they cover. When searching the FHL catalog, be sure to also search at the town and township level.

County-wide Database - Multi-denominational

 * 1708-1985 - Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $, free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry.com – $; 7,542,774 entries. This database is incomplete for all counties.


 * Contains records of:
 * Arnot: Arnot Presbyterian Church
 * Ash Brook: Ash Brook/Pine Creek Baptist Missionary Society
 * Mansfield: First Baptist Church; First United Methodist Church; St. James Episcopal Church
 * Millerton: United Methodist Church
 * Wellsboro: First Presbyterian Church; United Methodist Church
 * Whitneyville: United Methodist Church

Land and Property
Land records in Tioga County began in 1806. These records are filed with the Register and Recorder office in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania.

Land and property records can place an ancestor in a particular location, provide economic information, and reveal family relationships. Land records include: deeds, abstracts, indexes, mortgages, leases, grants, sheriff sales, land patents, and maps. Property records include liens as well as livestock brands and estray records.

The following are examples of available resources:

Online Land Records


 * 1806 - present Images are available on-line from 1806 to the present using the Landex system. There is a fee to view the images.

Additional Resources

Note that the "Maps" section below also includes maps related to land ownership.

See Pennsylvania Land and Property for more information about using land records, especially about original land warrants, surveys, and patents filed at the state land office.

Additional resources can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Tioga County Pennsylvania Land in online catalogs such as:


 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania
 * WorldCat (For instructions see WorldCat Online Catalog.)
 * (For instructions see FHL Catalog Place-name Search.)

Maps
Ancestor Tracks has posted free downloadable images from the County Atlas of Tioga, Pennsylvania from Recent and Actual Surveys and Records under the Superintendence of G.H. Walker and C.F. Jewett (published by F.W. Beers and Company, 1875). This atlas found in the files of 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.

Courthouse
Tioga County Courthouse Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts Clerk of Orphans Court 118 Main Street Wellsboro, PA 16901


 * Hours: Monday through Friday 9:00–4:30

Birth

 * 1726-1930 - - free index. Not complete for all years.
 * 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Births Ancestry.com – $ Index with images.

Marriage

 * 1838-1976 - - free index. Not complete for all years.

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:

County of Tioga Prothonotary 116 Main Street Wellsboro, PA 16901 Phone: 570-724-9281 Fax: 570-724-2986&lt;Hours: Monday–Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm

Death

 * 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Deaths Ancestry.com – $ Index with images.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Sullivan- Rutland Genealogy Project. This database focuses on the ancestors and descendants of the early nineteenth century pioneers who migrated to Tioga and Bradford County, Pennsylvania, primarily from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont. It also includes Chemung County. New York.