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Philadelphia Birth Records (89)


Philadelphia Cemetery Records (265)


Philadelphia Census Records

An urban finding aid for the 1880 federal population census of Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

Census 1790, Philadelphia City US Gen Web Archives online

Department and ward census, 1807?, 1812, 1864-1874, 1887-1904 FamilySearch Library

Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863 Ancestry online

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, African-American Census, 1847 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Philadelphia Church Records (1396)


Philadelphia City Directories (411)


Philadelphia Court Records

Bonds for support of illegitimate children, 1811-1859 FamilySearch Library

Case records, 1854-1906 FamilySearch Library

Cases referred to committee on bastardy, 1822-1825 FamilySearch Library

Court docket, 1789-1837 FamilySearch Library

Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) general court records 1691 - 1707 Archive Grid

Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) general court records Am.371 Archive Grid

Martin's bench and bar of Philadelphia; together with other lists of persons appointed to administer the laws in the city and county of Philadelphia, and the province and commonwealth of Pennsylvania LDS Genealogy online

Martin's bench and bar of Philadelphia; together with other lists of persons appointed to administer the laws in the city and county of Philadelphia, and the province and commonwealth of Pennsylvania Internet Archive online

Men of America : a biographical album of the city government of Philadelphia in the bi-centennial year, in which are embraced executive officers, judges of the courts, members of the councils and of the public trusts FamilySearch Library

Prisoners for trial docket, 1790-1882 FamilySearch Library

The District court of the city and county of Philadelphia, an address delivered at the final adjournment of the Court, January 4, 1875 by Hon. James T. Mitchell, one of the Judges of the Court LDS Genealogy online

The District court of the city and county of Philadelphia, an address delivered at the final adjournment of the Court, January 4, 1875 by Hon. James T. Mitchell, one of the Judges of the Court Internet Archive online

The minor courts of Philadelphia: declarations of intention and petitions for naturalization filed in the Mayors Court 1802-1838, Recorder's Court 1836-1838, Criminal Sessions Court 1838-1840, General Sessions Court 1840-1843 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia Death Records (118)


Philadelphia Histories and Genealogies (168)


Philadelphia Immigration Records (88)


Philadelphia Land Records

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Abstracts from Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania gazette, April 17, 1755 to December 27, 1764 FamilySearch Library

An essay on original land titles in Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

City lot patents, v. 1, 1781-1785 FamilySearch Library

Copy of the deeds of trust, charter, by-laws, and list of lot-holders : with an account of the cemetery (Philadelphia Cemetery, 1845) LDS Genealogy online

Copy of the deeds of trust, charter, by-laws, and list of lot-holders : with an account of the cemetery (Philadelphia Cemetery, 1845) Internet Archive online

Deeds (Philadephia County, Pennsylvania), 1683-1886 ; index to deeds, 1683-1916 FamilySearch Library

Deeds, mortgages, miscellaneous instruments left for recording and not called for, ca.1743-ca.1879 FamilySearch Library

Exemplification (grantee) index, 1683-1801 FamilySearch Library

Exemplification record, patent books (Philadelpha, Pennsylvania), 1667-1839 FamilySearch Library

Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) general court records 1691 - 1707 Archive Grid

Germantown deeds, 1682-1702 FamilySearch Library

Index of deeds (recorded and unrecorded), mortgages and miscellaneous instruments uncalled for at the office of the Recorder of Deeds in and for the city and county of Philadelphia; also names and dates of commission of masters of the rolls and recorders of deeds and numbers of books of record from 1683 to 1880 FamilySearch Library

Old rights, proprietary rights, Virginia entries and soldiers entitled to Donation Lands with an explanation of Reed's map of Philadelphia Genealogy Gophers online

Old rights, proprietary rights, Virginia entries and soldiers entitled to Donation Lands with an explanation of Reed's map of Philadelphia; ser. 03, v. 03 Genealogy Gophers online

Philadelphia city lots, 1682-1790 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia city lots, 1700 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia lots and taxes card file, undated Archive Grid

Plan of Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

Warrants and surveys of the province of Pennsylvania including the three lower counties, 1759 Genealogy Gophers online

Warrants and surveys of the province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759 : transcribed from the records of the Surveyor General's and Proprietaries Secretary's offices by John Hughes, recorder of warrants and surveys under the Act of Assembly July 7, 1759; with a guide to the books and index, an historical background and a copy of the Act FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia Map Records (58)


Philadelphia Marriage Records (178)


Philadelphia Military Records

A Brief Sketch of the Organization and Services of the Fifty-ninth Regiment of United States Colored Infantry Ancestry online

A true list of the names of the inhabitants of Philadelphia County as they stand classed and draughted, 1777 FamilySearch Library

Annals of the Sixth Pennsylvania cavalry Genealogy Gophers online

At peace with honor : the Civil War burials of Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania FamilySearch Library

Board of War and State Navy Board file, 1776-1777 FamilySearch Library

Brief history of the movement to abolish the slums of Philadelphia and provide decent homes for the poor Indiana Memory online

Civil War Service Records, Union, Colored Troops 20th-25th Infantry Fold3 online

Civil War Service Records, Union, Colored Troops 31th-35th Infantry Fold3 online

General muster roll of battalions 1-6, city of Philadelphia Militia, 1784 FamilySearch Library

History of the 75th Regiment, Pa. Vols. FamilySearch Library

History of the Eleventh Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry, together with a complete roster of the regiment and regimental officers Genealogy Gophers online

History of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry Internet Archive online

History of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry : from its organization November 17, 1774 to its centennial anniversary November 17, 1874 FamilySearch Library

History of the Philadelphia Brigade : Sixty-Ninth, Seventy-First, Seventy-Second, and One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers FamilySearch Library

List of sick soldiers in Philadelphia, December 1776 FamilySearch Library

Military Service enrollment books, 1861-1862, Philadelphia 19th & 20th Wards FamilySearch Library

Military enrollment book, wards 19 and 20, 1861-1862 FamilySearch Library

Military petitions for naturalization filed in the Philadelphia (County) District Court, 1862-1874 WorldCat

Militia absentee returns for Philadelphia City, 1777-1791 FamilySearch Library

Officers of the Army and Navy (Volunteer) Who Served in the Civil War Ancestry online

Old rights, proprietary rights, Virginia entries and soldiers entitled to Donation Lands with an explanation of Reed's map of Philadelphia Genealogy Gophers online

Old rights, proprietary rights, Virginia entries and soldiers entitled to Donation Lands with an explanation of Reed's map of Philadelphia; ser. 03, v. 03 Genealogy Gophers online

Orderly book, 1776-1778 FamilySearch Library

Papers relating to the War of the Revolution, 1775-1777 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Ancestry online

Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Genealogy Gophers online

Philadelphia in the World War, 1914-1919 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia soldier's home records, 1866-1883 FamilySearch Library

Post Rev War: Philadelphia City Muster Rolls, Philadelphia Militia, 1783-1790 US Gen Web Archives online

Register of the Members of the "Artillery Corps, Washington Grays" of the City of Philadelphia Ancestry online

Register of the members of the "Artillery Corps, Washington Grays" of the city of Philadelphia who served in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 LDS Genealogy online

Register of the members of the "Artillery Corps, Washington Grays" of the city of Philadelphia who served in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 Internet Archive online

Return of absentees in the city Militia, battalions 1-6, and artillery, 1781-1784 FamilySearch Library

Roll of the 7th Company, 5th Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, 1782 FamilySearch Library

Rough and regular : a history of Philadelphia's 119th Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, the Gray Reserves FamilySearch Library

Selected final pension payment vouchers 1818-1864 : Pennsylvania: Philadelpha & Pittsburg FamilySearch Library

The streets of Philadelphia : crowds, congress, and the political culture of revolution, 1774-1783 FamilySearch Library

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. XVI (Soldiers Buried in Lafayette Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA) Ancestry online

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. XVI (Soldiers Buried in United American Mechanic's Cemetery, PA) Ancestry online

U.S. Civil War, The Unpublished Roll Of Honor (List of Soldiers Buried in U.S.) Soldiers Buried in Camp Cadwalader, Pennsylvania Ancestry online

Philadelphia Minority Records

250th anniversary of the settlement of Germantown : Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 20, 21 and 22, 1933 FamilySearch Library

A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia : c Genealogy Gophers online

An alphabetical index to Ulster emigration to Philadelphia, 1803-1850 FamilySearch Library

Black [punishment] books, 1880-1912 FamilySearch Library

Black women's cellar ward, 1826-1832 FamilySearch Library

Church Records for Mikveh Israel Jewish Congregation (in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records collection) Ancestry online

Civil War Service Records, Union, Colored Troops 20th-25th Infantry Fold3 online

Civil War Service Records, Union, Colored Troops 31th-35th Infantry Fold3 online

Computer-processed tabulations of data from seamen's protective certificate applications to the collector of customs for the Port of Philadelphia, 1812-1815 FamilySearch Library

Directory of ethnic resources of Philadelphia and Delaware Valley FamilySearch Library

Foreign-born female convicts, 1897-1905 FamilySearch Library

Forging freedom : the formation of Philadelphia's Black community, 1720-1840 FamilySearch Library

Genealogical queries & reports of research commemorating 300 years of German immigration to the United States of America : a 1982-1983 project of the Pennsylvania chapter of the Palatines to America FamilySearch Library

German American annals , devoted to the comparative study of the historical, literary, linguistic, educational and commercial relations of Germany and America Genealogy Gophers online

German and Swiss settlers in America 1700's-1800's FamilySearch Library

German immigrant servant contracts registered at the port of Philadelphia, 1817-1831 FamilySearch Library

Germantown 1683-1933 : the record that a Pennsylvania community has achieved in the course of 250 years; being a history of the people of Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill FamilySearch Library

History of ownership of Indian Queen Hotel and Indian Queen Inn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania FamilySearch Library

Jewish Exponent [Electronic Resource]. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1887-Current US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Exponent. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1887-Current US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Times of the Greater Northeast. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1976-1983 US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Times. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1933-1947 US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Times. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1973-1976 US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Times. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1983-Current US Newspaper Directory

Jewish immigrant aid societies' records of Jewish arrivals, 1913-1947 FamilySearch Library

Jewish petition cards to bring relatives to the United States, 1923-1935 FamilySearch Library

Jewish records, 1752-1920 FamilySearch Library

Jewish records, 1802-1910 FamilySearch Library

List of German passengers arrived in the port Philadelphia, in the ship Margaret from Amsterdam ... September 19, 1804 : as taken from the original immigrant list on file in the Division of Public Records, Harrisburg, Pa FamilySearch Library

Lists of Palatine immigrants who arrived in Philadelphia in 1727 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia Jewish Times. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1925-1933 US Newspaper Directory

Philadelphia Jewish Times. (Philadelphia, Pa.) 1947-1973 US Newspaper Directory

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Runaway Servants, Convicts, and Apprentices, 1728-1796 Ancestry online

Receiving Erin's children : Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish famine migration, 1845-1855 FamilySearch Library

Record of indentures of individuals bound out as apprentices, servants, etc.; and of German and other redemptioners in the office of the mayor of the city of Philadelphia, October 3, 1771 to October 5, 1773 FamilySearch Library

Record of indentures of individuals bound out as apprentices, servants, etc.; and of German and other redemptioners in the office of the mayor of the city of Philadelphia, October 3, 1771 to October 5, 1773 : with a new index FamilySearch Library

Records of the Welsh Society of Philadelphia, 1798-ongoing Archive Grid

Report of the Executive Board of the Friends' Association of Philadelphia and itsVicinity, For the Relief of Colored Freedmen Ancestry online

Report of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia and its affiliated organizations for the year ending... : a list of annual subscribers to the Federation FamilySearch Library

Runaway slave advertisements of the Pennsylvania Gazette & index, 1740-1776 FamilySearch Library

The German Immigration into Pennsylvania, Through the Port of Philadelphia, from 1700 to 1775, and the Redemptioners (included in My GPC Library subscription) Genealogical.com online

The Jewish quarter of Philadelphia : a history and guide 1881-1930 FamilySearch Library

The Jews of Philadelphia : their history from the earliest settlements to the present time; a record of events and institutions, and of leading members of the Jewish community in every sphere of activity FamilySearch Library

The Occident and American Jewish Advocate (the leading Jewish publication in the United States during this period) 1843-1853 Jewish-American History Foundation online

The house of the miller on the Millbach : the architecture, arts and crafts of the Pennsylvania Germans FamilySearch Library

U.S., Chinese Immigration Case Files, 1883-1924 Ancestry online

Welsh Americans : the manuscript collection, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia Miscellaneous Records (70)


Philadelphia Newspapers and Obituaries (284)


Philadelphia Probate Records

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1683-1993 Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Abstract of wills at Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

Abstract of wills of Philadelphia County. FamilySearch Library

Abstracts (mainly deaths) from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1775-1783 FamilySearch Library

Abstracts from Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania gazette, April 17, 1755 to December 27, 1764 FamilySearch Library

Abstracts of Philadelphia wills, 1682-1825 FamilySearch Library

Abstracts of wills recorded in the administration books, Register's Office, Philadelphia. / Administration books F-L. FamilySearch Library

Administration of wills, Philadelphia, 1682-1900 FamilySearch Library

Index to wills and administration records, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1682-1850 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization petitions and records, 1795-1911 FamilySearch Library

Orphans' Court records 1719-1856 ; Index 1719-1938 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia Guardians of the Poor indenture records, 1791-1822 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia Guardians of the Poor; bonds for the support of illegitimate children and other indigent persons, 1811-1859 FamilySearch Library

Wills and inventories of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1682-1724 FamilySearch Library

Wills proved at Philadelphia, 1682-1700 FamilySearch Library

Wills proved at Philadelphia, 1697-1702 FamilySearch Library

Wills, 1682-1916; indexes to wills, 1682-1924 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia School Records (354)


Philadelphia Tax Records

1769 tax list (proprietary), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, city and county : transcribed and arranged alphabetically by surnames FamilySearch Library

A transcript of the fifteenth eighteen Penny Provincial Tax assessed the 13th day of March 1772, for the City & County of Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

City tax duplicates, 1791-1854 FamilySearch Library

Constables' returns to tax assessors, 1762-1780 FamilySearch Library

County tax assessment ledgers, 1762-1844, for city of Philadelphia and Blockley Township FamilySearch Library

Enumeration index, 3rd ward, 3rd precinct, 1854 FamilySearch Library

Lamp tax for Lower Delaware, High Street, & North wards, Philadelphia, 1765 FamilySearch Library

Maintance of the poor tax for the city of Philadelphia, 1767 FamilySearch Library

Paving tax for Lower Delaware, High Street, & North wards, Philadelphia, 1765 FamilySearch Library

Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 Ancestry online

Philadelphia City & County, Pennsylvania taxpayers 1779 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia City tax list, 1829 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia County tax book, 1770 FamilySearch Library

Philadelphia lots and taxes card file, undated Archive Grid

Poor tax duplicate, 1767-1853 FamilySearch Library

Poor tax duplicate, 1767-1853 FamilySearch Library

Poor tax register, 1819-1847 FamilySearch Library

Proprietary tax list of Philadelphia County & City, 1769, pertaining to the inhabitants of Philadelphia County (including that area which became Montgomery County in 1784) and the city of Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

Proprietary, supply, and state tax lists of the city and county of Philadelphia FamilySearch Library

Proprietary, supply, and state tax lists of the city and county of Philadelphia for the years 1779-1881 Digital Public Library of America online

Records of individual tax assessments for Philadelphia County for 1767 Digital Public Library of America online

Tax list of Philadelphia City and County, 1781-1783 FamilySearch Library

Tax lists of Philadelphia City, 1754 FamilySearch Library

Taxables in the City of Philadelphia, 1756 FamilySearch Library

Taxables in the city of Philadelphia, 1756 WorldCat

United States direct tax of 1798; tax lists for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: New Market Ward FamilySearch Library



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