Genealogy Blog - Delaware shares that “Delaware County, Pennsylvania’s Records are Now Accessible and online.
There was one upside to the arduous task Robert Plowman took on three years ago when he began burrowing through thousands of boxes as Delaware County’s first archivist since its founding in 1789.
“The county hasn’t thrown anything away,” he said. The downside? “It took me a year and half to discover what we have.”
Plowman’s work means that the public can now easily access genealogical and historic records documenting the evolution of what was once a collection of forest outposts and is now the Philadelphia area’s most congested suburban county.
Delaware County’s new era in document sharing officially began yesterday with dedication of a new public research room that includes an exhibit of 18th- and 19th-century naturalization papers, wills, and civil court cases.
Philadelphia Inquirer, It’s One for the Record Books
You can learn more about the new research room in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the Delaware County Archives.
Article Information
Delaware County, Pennsylvania’s Records are Now Accessible via the Delaware County Archives is Issue Number 46 published June 4, 2006, by Lorelle VanFossen. This is just one of many articles found in the Genealogy Resources categories. Lorelle VanFossen writes for a variety of blogs, websites, ezines, and print publications. She also teaches and does a lot of public speaking internationally on photography, writing, blogging, web page design and development, and more. She and her husband and cat(s) travel full-time across North American and the rest of the world by RV, planes, trains, automobiles, and foot, writing and photographing their travels and nature, when they can find it. Lorelle VanFossen has written 236 articles for our our family history blog.
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May 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Trying to access civil cases (a recent divorce). Thanks!