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.