Obituaries in Beaver, PA | The Beaver County Times (2024)

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​County Courthouses in ​​Pennsylvania

Courthouses are important places to look for birth, marriage and death records. These are usually found in the Register of Wills office in each county.

Many funeral homes publish obituaries on their websites. These can usually be located with a Google search on the person's name. Local genealogical and historical societies, public libraries, and some newspaper publishers maintain clipping files of obituaries.

Placing an obituary in the Beaver County Times starts at $69.58.

Read The Paper or Watch The Local News

If you receive a physical newspaper, review the obituaries section to see who recently passed. Searching for someone who died more than 30 days ago? Turn to sites like Google News Archives, US News Archives, or International News Archives.

Publishing an obituary in the newspaper is expensive because of the limited space papers have. Newspapers value every inch of each page, so they must charge to use that limited space for an obituary.

Remember to check for any formatting rules set by the newspaper or website where you're posting the obituary, as they sometimes have specific rules for word count, images, and language. Most obituaries are around 200 words long, which means using as few words as possible to avoid going over the word count.

Birth and Death Records

Pennsylvania residents can access these records free of charge through Ancestry.com Pennsylvania. To request uncertified copies of 1906-1918 birth certificates and 1906-1973 death certificates, use the Vital Records Request Form via (PDF) or (Direct SubmitOpens In A New Window).

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The Pennsylvania Department of Health, Division of Vital Records has birth and death records from 1906 to the present. The PA State Archives has birth certificates for 1906-1913 and death certificates for 1906-1968. The Register of Wills keeps records for marriages after December 31, 1885.

DVR maintains birth and death records registered in Pennsylvania from 1906 to the present. Legislation allows public access to birth and death records after a fixed amount of time has passed. Self-search of records housed at the Division of Vital Records (DVR) is not permitted. DVR staff must conduct all searches.

Issuing of death certificates

The Department of Home Affairs will issue a Death Certificate on receipt of the notification of death (Form BI-1663)and the Death Report (Form BI-1680).

This includes a spouse, siblings, and children. But death certificates can be requested by anyone when they become public record. In some states, death certificates are released 25 or more years after death. Check with your state's vital records office to find out when death certificates become public record.