Pennsylvania Room Collection

The Pennsylvania Room has a specialized reference collection of more than 3,000 volumes on state, local, and family history, as well as original Centre County records, newspapers, patron-provided manuscript genealogies, vital record indexes, and indexes to Centre County marriages and newspaper obituaries.

You can search our non-circulating reference collection in Centre County Library’s online catalog.

The following research materials are included in the Pennsylvania Room collection but are not included in the Library’s online catalog:

Centre County Newspapers on Microfilm

Bellefonte Patriot
Bellefonte Republican
Centre Daily Times
Centre Democrat
Centre Reporter
Democratic Watchman
Democratic Whig
Howard Hustler
Keystone Gazette
Millheim Journal
Philipsburg Journal
Philipsburg Daily Journal

Indexes

Index to Centre County Death Notices and Obituaries, 1821-2013
Centre County, Pennsylvania Marriage Index, 1764-2005
Centre County Births, 1893-1905
Centre County Death Records, 1893-1905
Centre County, PA: Index to the CCGS Cemetery Series

Original Centre County Government Records

Marriage license applications, 1885-1987
Tax assessment records, 1801-1965
Will and intestate files, 1800-1990
Orphans court dockets, 1802-1971
Civil and criminal court papers, 1800-1875
Road petitions, 1800-1956

Spangler Collection

A unique and fully indexed genealogical collection with 250,000 cards in its catalog. Documentation includes:

Tombstone inscriptions for 113 county cemeteries
Newspaper obituaries (1826-1854 and 1926-1942)
Marriage records
Bible transcriptions
Church records
Family records
Tax lists

J. Marvin Lee Genealogical Collection

This collection contains approximately twenty notebooks compiled by a longtime Centre County genealogist/historian. Mr. Lee's work, which includes family group sheets with some documentation, is primarily from the 1940s to the 1970s, and is fully indexed.