Pennsylvania Free Background Checks

• Pennsylvania Background Check
• Pennsylvania - Corporation & Business Entities
• Pennsylvania - Incarceration Records - Current only
• Pennsylvania - Professional Licensing - Registration and Login required.
• Pennsylvania - Sexual Offender Records - Search by county only, no statewide list.
• Pennsylvania - State Archives
• Pennsylvania - UCC
• Pennsylvania - Unclaimed Property

All Counties

• PA - All Counties - Criminal Common Pleas Courts - Docket Data - Counties are being added on schedule. For name search, choose "other criteria"
• Pennsylvania - All Counties - Court of Common Pleas - Criminal Docket Data - To name search, choose to search by "Other Criteria." Must search by individual county.

Allegheny County

• PA - Allegheny County - Common Pleas - Criminal Opinions
• PA - Allegheny County - Common Pleas Civil - Registration is required.
• PA - Allegheny County - Common Pleas Courts - Civil Opinions
• PA - Allegheny County - Common Pleas Courts - Criminal Records
• PA - Allegheny County - Real Estate, Assessor
• PA - Allegheny County - Recorder, Deed, Real Estate Indexes - Fee to print docs $1.00 per page; index back to 1986.

Beaver County

• PA - Beaver County - Assessor, Property
• PA - Beaver County - Naturalization - Use username NATURAL and password NATURAL.
• PA - Beaver County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Recording - Images go back to 6/1998; mortgages to 7/1974; deeds to 1957, but there is a new provider and this may have changed.

Berks County

• PA - Berks County - Property, Parcel, Assessor

Bradford County

• PA - Bradford County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Will, Orphans Court - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Bucks County

• PA - Bucks County - Assessor, Property, Property Sales
• PA - Bucks County - Civil Court
• PA - Bucks County - Clerk of Court Criminal
• PA - Bucks County - Family and Domestic Court
• PA - Bucks County - Recorder, Assessor, Prothonotary, Sheriff Sale, Tax Claim, Property Tax, Courts, Register of Wills - Free for now; county may begin fees at later date.
• PA - Bucks County - Register of Wills, Probate

Butler County

• PA - Butler County - Real Estate, Deed

Carbon County

• PA - Carbon County - Clerk of Courts, Prothonotary, Tax Lien, Judgment - Docket information provided; this is a remote dial-up system.
• PA - Carbon County - Property, Assessor

Centre County

• PA - Centre County - Domestic Relations Warrants - Child Support

Chester County

• PA - Chester County - Court of Common Pleas Miscellaneous Cases - Short, temporary lists of current cases before the Common Please Court judges
• PA - Chester County - Genealogy, Vital Statistics Archive
• PA - Chester County - Real Estate, Deed - Registration and logon required.
• PA - Chester County - Recorded Documents

Clearfield County

• PA - Clearfield County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Probate, Will, Orphans Court - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.
• PA - Clearfield County - Tax Sale List - Updated weekly.

Clinton County

• PA - Clinton County - Property - Click on "Parcel Query by Name." Site may be down.
• PA - Clinton County - Tax Claim/Sale, Treasurer

Columbia County

• PA - Columbia County - Property, Assessor
• PA - Columbia County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Will, UCC - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Cumberland County

• PA - Cumberland County - Cemetery - This is an unofficial site.
• PA - Cumberland County - Common Pleas Court Civil/Criminal - Search dockets by year then case number. To view, select Thumbnails from the toolbar under the word Browse.
• PA - Cumberland County - Property Assessor - No name searching.

Dauphin County

• PA - Dauphin County - Property, Assessor - To search, create a guest account.
• PA - Dauphin County - Real Estate, Mortgage, Deed, Satisfactions

Delaware

• PA - Delaware - Real Estate, Deed, Judgment, Civil Court, Recording - Searching is free but they may begin charging at any time. No name searching.

Erie County

• PA - Erie County - Property, Assessor

Fayette County

• PA - Fayette County - Property, Assessor

Indiana County

• PA - Indiana County - Real Estate, Recorder, Deed - Login as Guest and search free.

Lackawanna County

• PA - Lackawanna County - Property

Lancaster County

• PA - Lancaster County - Assessor, Property
• PA - Lancaster County - Inmates
• PA - Lancaster County - Probate, Death, Marriage
• PA - Lancaster County - Property, GIS-mapping - Click on GIS-Property Search, then choose Query to search by name.
• PA - Lancaster County - Prothonotary, Civil Records
• PA - Lancaster County - Real Estate, Assessor, UCCs, Tax Liens - Requires free registration.
• PA - Lancaster County - Sheriff Sales
• PA - Lancaster County - Termination List (Argument Report) - Prothonotary's list of court case termination list (argument report) for the previous year

Lawrence County

• PA - Lawrence County - Assessor, Property - search pdf pages by ward, borough or town
• PA - Lawrence County - Property, Assessor - Registration required; fees for access may apply.
• PA - Lawrence County - Real Estate, Recorder Land Records, Deeds - Free trial available.

Lebanon County

• PA - Lebanon County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Misc Recording - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Lehigh County

• PA - Lehigh County - Assessor, Property, County Grants - Free registration is required for assessor and grants; no name searching of assessor data.
• PA - Lehigh County - Common Pleas Criminal Court - Under development; currently only calendars and bench warrants available.
  Search at "Calendars & Schedules."
• PA - Lehigh County - Property, Assessor - No name searching.
• PA - Lehigh County - Tax Sales

Luzerne County

• PA - Luzerne County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Mercer County

• PA - Mercer County - Real Estate, Grantor/Grantee, Deed, Lien

Mifflin County

• PA - Mifflin County - Assessor, Property - Name search using the new free Parcel Mapping application.

Monroe County

• PA - Monroe County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Wills - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Montgomery County

• PA - Montgomery County - Assessment Appeals
• PA - Montgomery County - Board of Assessments Owner Names, Land Records
• PA - Montgomery County - Civil, Criminal, Probate, Estate - Select from menu options
• PA - Montgomery County - Property, Parcel
• PA - Montgomery County - Prothonotary, Judgment, Parcel, Court records
• PA - Montgomery County - Real Estate, Recording, Deed, Mortgage, UCC
• PA - Montgomery County - Tax Claim History
• PA - Montgomery County - Tax Claim Property

Montour County

• PA - Montour County - Wills - Click on Register & Recorder, then Will Index.

Northampton County

• PA - Northampton County - Common Please Court Calendars
• PA - Northampton County - Court Opinion, Judgment - Records 1991 to 2005 only.
• PA - Northampton County - Property Tax, Assessor - Click on Search Tax Records. No name searching.
• PA - Northampton County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Misc Recording - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Northumberland County

• PA - Northumberland County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Probate, Orphans Court - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Philadelphia Area

• PA - Philadelphia Area - Deaths - This is the obituary page of the Philadelphia area.

Philadelphia County

• PA - Philadelphia County - 1st District Civil Dockets, Judgments
• PA - Philadelphia County - 1st Judicial District Civil dockets
• PA - Philadelphia County - Civil Judgments - First Judicial District.
• PA - Philadelphia County - Municipal Civil, Eviction
• PA - Philadelphia County - Municipal Misdemeanor - To name search, click on Other Criteria
• PA - Philadelphia County - Property, Assessor - No name searching
• PA - Philadelphia County - Prothonotary, Judgment, Lien, Civil Court - Also includes judgments and liens on behalf of governmental entities.

Pike County

• PA - Pike County - Assessor, Property, GIS

Schuylkill County

• PA - Schuylkill County - Civil Court, Judgment
• PA - Schuylkill County - Marriages - Marriage dockets 1885-1969 and 1989-present.
• PA - Schuylkill County - Sheriff Sale

Somerset County

• PA - Somerset County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.
• PA - Somerset County - Real Estate, Sales

Sullivan County

• PA - Sullivan County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Tioga County

• PA - Tioga County - Real Estate, Deed, Mortgage, Will - Index search only. Registration and fees apply for full data.

Union County

• PA - Union County - Prothonotary Civil/Criminal Judgments - Must sign-up for a password
• PA - Union County - Prothonotary Judgments - Must sign-up for a password
• PA - Union County - Real Estate, Deed, Financing Statement, Map
• PA - Union County - Register of Deeds, Liens, Wills - Must sign-up for a password
• PA - Union County - Wills - Must sign-up for a password

Washington County

• PA - Washington County - Real Estate Tax, Treasurer

Wayne County

• PA - Wayne County - Active Arrest Warrants
• PA - Wayne County - Property, Assessor - Free registration required.

Westmoreland County

• PA - Westmoreland County - Common Pleas Civil, Register of Wills, Marriage, Tax parcel Index - Registration and fees required for full data, images.
• PA - Westmoreland County - Parcel, GIS-mapping - Fee for full GIS access.
• PA - Westmoreland County - Recording, UCC, Lien, Real Estate, Deed

York County

• PA - York County - Assessor - This is a GIS mapping site linked to property assessment data.
• PA - York County - Deaths - Search back from 1958.
• PA - York County - Inmates
• PA - York County - Marriage - 1885 to 1921 only.
• PA - York County - Naturalization Records - 1799 to 1990 only.