Pittsburgh Genealogy (in Allegheny County, PA)

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Pittsburgh Birth Records

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1st Presbyterian Church Christenings Genealogy Trails online

3rd Presbyterian Church Christenings Genealogy Trails online

Births and baptisms 1782-1815, by Rev. John William Weber, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania FamilySearch Library

Central Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania computer printout; births or christenings, 1859-1882 FamilySearch Library

Early vital records of Pennsylvania : church parish records and cemetery inscriptions of western Pennsylvania, 1969 FamilySearch Library

Emanuel United Methodist Church Records, 1875-1986 Archive Grid

Pennsylvania Births, 1852-1854 Ancestry online

Pennsylvania, Birth Records, 1906-present Pennsylvania Department of Health

Records of Birmingham United Church of Christ (Pittsburgh, Pa.). 1843-1977 (microform) Archive Grid

Records of Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgh, Pa.,. 1889-1996 Archive Grid

Records of First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1837-1975 (microform) Archive Grid

Records of St. Luke Episcopal Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1869-1977 (microform) Archive Grid

Records of the Zion Church of the Evangelical Association (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1843-1908 (microform) Archive Grid

Records transcript of Trinity Church, 1797-1867, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Registration of births in the borough of Wilkinsburg, 1893-1905 FamilySearch Library

Registration of births in the city of Allegheny, 1878-1907 and index 1882-1907 FamilySearch Library

Registration of births in the city of Pittsburgh, 1870-1905 FamilySearch Library

Smithfield Congregational Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1832-1971 Archive Grid

St. Luke Episcopal Church Records, 1869-1977 Archive Grid

St. Matthew's Lutheran Church Records, 1873-1936 Archive Grid

St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church Records, 1839-1964 Archive Grid

The Irish in America : immigration, land, probate, administrations, birth, marriage and burial records of the Irish in America in and about the eighteenth century FamilySearch Library

Trinity Church Records Transcript, Volume I, 1797-1867 Archive Grid

Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church records $f1836-1880, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Pittsburgh Cemetery Records (132)


Pittsburgh Census Records

1930 Census Tract Index to Pittsburgh Streets and House Numbers Ancestry online

Atlas of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1911 : with new and old ward numbers and street name guide FamilySearch Library

Manuscript census for Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1850-1870 FamilySearch Library

Manuscript census for Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1850-1870 FamilySearch Library

Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863 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

Pittsburgh Church Records (371)


Pittsburgh City Directories (199)


Pittsburgh Court Records

Allegheny County, Pa. Jail records (Court dockets), 1863-1932 (microform), Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

The boundary controversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia; 1748-1785. Minute book of the Virginia Court held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh) for the District of West Augusta, 1775-1776 LDS Genealogy online

The boundary controversy between Pennsylvania and Virginia; 1748-1785. Minute book of the Virginia Court held at Fort Dunmore (Pittsburgh) for the District of West Augusta, 1775-1776 Internet Archive online

Pittsburgh Death Records

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1906-1967 Pennsylvania Death Certificates Ancestry online

Death notice index, 1979-1989 FamilySearch Library

Death register index for the city of Pittsburgh, 1851-1857 FamilySearch Library

Death register index for the city of Pittsburgh, 1851-1857 FamilySearch Library

Deaths, 1866-1870 : gleaned from the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. United Methodist Church (U.S.) WorldCat

Early African American Deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier WorldCat

Early African American deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier FamilySearch Library

Early vital records of Pennsylvania : church parish records and cemetery inscriptions of western Pennsylvania, 1969 FamilySearch Library

Gaines Funeral Home ledger : 1934-1939. WorldCat

Gaines Funeral Home records, 1925-1934, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Gaines Funeral Home records, 1929-1934. WorldCat

Marriages and Deaths from the Pittsburgh Dispatch 1858-1860 FamilySearch Library

Marriages and Deaths from the Pittsburgh Gazette, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1829-1833 FamilySearch Library

Marriages, Deaths, Obituaries and Other Noteworthy Items : from the Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Merchantile Advertiser March 16-July 24, 1820 Exclusive; the Pittsburg Gazette Dec. 27, 1822-September 27, 1825 Inclusive; the Pittsburgh Post Sept. 27, 1829-July 26, 1833 Inclusive FamilySearch Library

Mount of Olives Presbyterian Church, Squirrel Hill ... : & Mifflin Associate Reformed, later United Presbyterian Church ... WorldCat

Pennsylvania Death Index, 1906-1964 MyHeritage online

Pennsylvania, Death Records, 1906-present Pennsylvania Department of Health

Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh City Deaths, 1870-1905 Family Search online

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., Deaths, 1870-1905 Ancestry online

Records transcript of Trinity Church, 1797-1867, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Registration of deaths in the city of Allegheny, 1876-1907 FamilySearch Library

Registration of deaths in the city of Pittsburgh, 1870-1905 FamilySearch Library

Smithfield Congregational Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1832-1971 Archive Grid

St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church Records, 1839-1964 Archive Grid

Trinity Church Records Transcript, Volume I, 1797-1867 Archive Grid

Pittsburgh Histories and Genealogies (124)


Pittsburgh Immigration Records

Declarations of intention, 1881-1911, United States Circuit Court (Pennsylvania : Western District : Pittsburg Division) Archive Grid

Naturalization Petitions of the U.S. District Court, 1820-1930, and Circuit Court, 1820-1911, for the Western District of Pennsylvania Fold3 online

Naturalization card file index, 1906-1990 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization declarations of intention and petitions, 1798-1910 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization docket, 1799-1906, and declarations of intentions, 1883-1906 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization petitions and records, 1910-1911 FamilySearch Library

Naturalization records (Pennsylvania: Western District), 1820-1935 FamilySearch Library

Pennsylvania, Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Naturalization Card File Index, 1906-1990 Family Search online

Resources on the ethnic and the immigrant in the Pittsburgh area FamilySearch Library

The Irish in America : immigration, land, probate, administrations, birth, marriage and burial records of the Irish in America in and about the eighteenth century FamilySearch Library

The immigrant church and community : Pittsburgh's Slovak Catholics and Lutherans, 1880-1915 FamilySearch Library

Pittsburgh Land Records

Deeds, 1788-1901; index, 1788-1904 FamilySearch Library

Early Land Marks and Names of Old Pittsburgh Historic Pittsburgh online

Pittsburgh Gazette Abstracts, 1786-1820 : the People and Times of Western Pennsylvania, 1786-1797 FamilySearch Library

Real estate plat-book of the northern vicinity of Pittsburg, Penna. : from official records, private plans, and actual surveys FamilySearch Library

Real estate plat-book of the southern vicinity of Pittsburgh, Penna. : from official records, private plans, and actual surveys FamilySearch Library

Records of Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Montefiore Lodge No. 794, Pittsburgh, Pa.,. 1920-1962 Archive Grid

Pittsburgh Map Records

Atlas of the Cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1882 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection) Ancestry online

Atlas of the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny : from official records, private plans, and actual surveys FamilySearch Library

Atlas of the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny : from official records, private plans, and actual surveys FamilySearch Library

Fisherman's guide map of, Pittsburgh District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers : hook, lyin', and sinker, 1985 Library of Congress online

Map of Pittsburgh and environs : from official records, original plats and actual surveys, 1916 FamilySearch Library

Map of Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham, 1871 Library of Congress online

Map of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902. Library of Congress online

Map of Water and woodlands, recreation in the Pittsburgh District, 1996 Library of Congress online

Map of the cities of Pittsburgh and the adjoining boroughs : from official records and actual surveys FamilySearch Library

Pittsburg and Allegheny, 1874c Bird's Eye View Map (in U.S. Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases) Ancestry online

Pittsburg and Van Buren Township : pioneers, pictures, maps, stories and historical events, 1836-1976 Genealogy Gophers online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Hays, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, August 1917 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Knoxville Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, August 1898 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Knoxville Borough, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, October 1893 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1884 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1884 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1893 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1893 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1893 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1904 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1905-1906 Library of Congress online

Standard History of Pittsburgh, 1898 (included in U.S. County and Regional Histories and Atlases collection) Ancestry online

The premier street map of Pittsburgh FamilySearch Library

View map of Pittsburgh & Allegheny, 1874 Library of Congress online

Pittsburgh Marriage Records

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1852-1968 Pennsylvania, Marriages Ancestry online

Abstract of record book for the marriages, baptisms, burials, from the year 1884 to 1928 performed by Henry Fuessner FamilySearch Library

Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church records 1906-2004 manuscript, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Early vital records of Pennsylvania : church parish records and cemetery inscriptions of western Pennsylvania, 1969 FamilySearch Library

Father Peter Helbron's Greensburg, Pa. registers; also called Sportsmen's Hall and Clear Spring : baptisms 1799 to 1828, marriages 1800 to 1818, burials 1804 to 1819 FamilySearch Library

Index to microfilm reels of Ministers marriage returns, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania : from 30 January 1875 through 31 December 1885 FamilySearch Library

Marriage license dockets 1885-1905, 1937-1950 (series A-F, S-Z) ; Index 1885-1925 FamilySearch Library

Marriage records Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1805-1887 WorldCat

Marriage records, Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1805-1867 FamilySearch Library

Marriage returns, city of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; 1870-1875 FamilySearch Library

Marriages and Deaths from the Pittsburgh Dispatch 1858-1860 FamilySearch Library

Marriages and Deaths from the Pittsburgh Gazette, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1829-1833 FamilySearch Library

Marriages, Deaths, Obituaries and Other Noteworthy Items : from the Pittsburgh Gazette and Manufacturing and Merchantile Advertiser March 16-July 24, 1820 Exclusive; the Pittsburg Gazette Dec. 27, 1822-September 27, 1825 Inclusive; the Pittsburgh Post Sept. 27, 1829-July 26, 1833 Inclusive FamilySearch Library

Ministers' returns of marriages performed in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1875-1909 FamilySearch Library

Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1845-1963 Ancestry online

Records of Birmingham United Church of Christ (Pittsburgh, Pa.). 1843-1977 (microform) Archive Grid

Records of Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgh, Pa.,. 1889-1996 Archive Grid

Records of First Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1837-1975 (microform) Archive Grid

Records of St. Luke Episcopal Church (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1869-1977 (microform) Archive Grid

Records of the Zion Church of the Evangelical Association (Pittsburgh, Pa.), 1843-1908 (microform) Archive Grid

Records transcript of Trinity Church, 1797-1867, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Smithfield Congregational Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Records, 1832-1971 Archive Grid

Smithfield Street Methodist Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; marriages 1818-1885 FamilySearch Library

St. Luke Episcopal Church Records, 1869-1977 Archive Grid

St. Peter's Evangelical and Reformed Church Records, 1839-1964 Archive Grid

The Irish in America : immigration, land, probate, administrations, birth, marriage and burial records of the Irish in America in and about the eighteenth century FamilySearch Library

Trinity Church Records Transcript, Volume I, 1797-1867 Archive Grid

Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church records $f1836-1880, Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Pittsburgh Military Records

Civil War Service Records, Union, Colored Troops 8th-13th Infantry Fold3 online

Early veterans of Greenwood Cemetery WorldCat

General History of Company D, 149th Pennsylvania Volunteers: and Personal Sketches of the Members Historic Pittsburgh online

Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Pennsylvania : personal war sketches of the African American members of Col. Robert G. Shaw post no. 206, Pittsburgh FamilySearch Library

History of the Washington Infantry of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Thirty-Sixth Anniversary, 1855-1891 Historic Pittsburgh online

Pittsburgh during the American Civil War, 1860-1865 FamilySearch Library

Record of the Pittsburgh Rifles, Co. A, 9th Regt., Penn. Reserve Corps FamilySearch Library

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

Pittsburgh Minority Records

American Jewish Outlook. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1934-1962 US Newspaper Directory

Civil War Service Records, Union, Colored Troops 8th-13th Infantry Fold3 online

Early African American deaths in the Pittsburgh Courier FamilySearch Library

German genealogical research FamilySearch Library

Jewish Chronicle. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1962-Current US Newspaper Directory

Jewish Criterion. (Pittsburg, Pa.) 1895-1962 US Newspaper Directory

The Jewish community of Pittsburgh, December, 1938: a Sample Study Historic Pittsburgh online

The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project 1895-present Carnegie Mellon University online

The Poles in western Pennsylvania FamilySearch Library

Pittsburgh Miscellaneous Records

Allegheny County, Pa. Jail records (Court dockets), 1863-1932 (microform), Pittsburgh, Pa. Archive Grid

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 19th century voter lists FamilySearch Library

Western State Penitentiary records (included in Pennsylvania, Prison, Reformatory, and Workhouse Records collection) Ancestry online

Pittsburgh Newspapers and Obituaries (116)


Pittsburgh Probate Records

1683-1993 Pennsylvania, Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Pittsburgh School Records (421)


Pittsburgh Tax Records

City records, 1824-1907, Allegheny (Pittsburgh, Pa.). Archive Grid

Pennsylvania, Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801 Ancestry online



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