Centre County
Land Records/Deeds
Land records are excellent genealogical tools for the genealogical researcher.
Land Warrants
An index of original land warrantees is available at Centre County Land Warrantees, 1801-1891.
The Pennsylvania State Archives has online scanned indexes of Warrent Registers and Land Patents for Centre and other counties.
Deeds
Grantor (seller) and Grantee (buyer) indexes from 1800 forward can be found in the Recorder of Deeds office at the Willowbank County Office Building in Bellefonte.
The Centre County Government has begun a project to image deeds and make them accessible online for a fee through Centre County Government Web Information Access. The Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library and Historical Museum in Bellefonte now has free access to view these images. Available online are:
index books page images for 1801 - 1954
This website is also looking for transcribed deeds of property holders with a Centre County connection. To submit a deed online, you may use our Centre County Deed Board. Please enter your information carefully, and if you make a mistake, contact the web site coordinator immediately so that your entry can be edited.
Prior to June 2001, a separate Deeds Message Board for Centre County was maintained at RootsWeb.com, but in the middle of June 2001, a change (wrought by its merger with Ancestry.com) resulted in a merger of all RootsWeb message boards so most browsers can only find these mixed in with other queries on one merged board. If you wish to look at the specific set of Deeds actually posted, go to that only Centre County Board and click on advanced search. Click on the "Centre Board" button, then look in the middle of the page for an instruction that says, "Message Classification," and use the pull-down menu until you reach one for "Deed."
We encourage the continued posting of material found in Deeds, but browsers are advised (1)to do this in the future by using the message board for Deeds at PA-Roots.com, and (2)to read the Advisory about the changes at RootsWeb.