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JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORY CENTER

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Our Research Room and Archives:


Thresa Costa, our research assistant is available to help members and non-members visiting the center.

There is no charge to members for assistance when they visit, other than the photocopy fee of 25 cents per page.

Nonmembers are charged $5 per hour to use our research materials, plus photocopy charges.

Fees for contracted genealogical research services include an hourly rate of $15.00 plus photocopying and mailing for members, or $20 an hour plus photocopying and mailing for non-members.

Patrons may contact Ms. Costa by phone, mail or Email to outline a specific research agreement which can be as little as an hour search. Some materials must be retrieved from a different building so Emailing or phoning ahead is advised if special materials are requested. Materials she often includes in her research includes:

  • Surname, topical and ephemera files
  • Family genealogies
  • Manuscripts include: Bibles, diaries, scrapbooks, autographs, account books, personal and family papers, maps, surveys,and architectural drawings.
  • Record Groups (Includes civic, fraternal and professional groups, church and cemetary records, business and industry, and schools)
  • Periodicals related to Western Pennsylvania
  • Newspaper microfilms including all available microfilms of the Jeffersonian Democrat
  • All authoritative histories of jefferson County
  • Directories and indexes
  • Genealogical reference volumes
  • Jefferson County Census microfilms (1810-1930)
  • U.S. Census search from 1790 through 1930.
  • Obits - Local newspaper obituaries.
  • Surname files, local histories, some church records, tombstone indexes, marriage indexes and other various records.
  • Transcriptions of courthouse records that include: Birth registrations (1893-1906), death registrations (1893-1906), estates (1834-1961), wills (1854-present), inventory of estates (1854-1961), Deeds (1828-present), marriage records (1885-present), naturalization records (1830-1940), divorce record and civil cases.

    County Records Transfer

    Under agreement with the Jefferson County Commissioners, the History Center has moved the extensive tax assessor books and documents and other pertinent court house records that for many years have been stored in the court house basement to the Brady Craig house on Jefferson Street in Brookville.

    These records are being maintained for public use and are available for independent research by stopping at the History Center during our normal business hours and signing out a key to access that part of the building. Researchers do not have to be a member of the JCHS to access these records and there is no fee other than for photocopying.

    The JCHC will also provide information as a contracted research service for an hourly fee.

    Questions about accessing these records should be referred to Theresa Costa at the JCHC (814) 849-0077 or jchc@windstream.net. Researchers should no longer contact the Tax Assessors office at Court House for access to these records.


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