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Find the Right Philadelphia Record Office
These are the fastest routes for common Philadelphia record questions:
- Address, parcel, or recorded-document question: start with the Philadelphia street directory route.
- Historical listings and earlier households: use the Philadelphia city directory collections.
- One-person record verification: follow the Philadelphia resident lookup method.
- Office functions and portals: use the Philadelphia resident records offices reference.
- Existing City records that are not posted: submit a sufficiently specific request under the Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law to the holding custodian.
Philadelphia Department of Records: Room 156, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19107; 215-686-2262; records.info@phila.gov. The office handles active records and public-record questions. The City Archives is a separate historical route at 548 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19123; 215-685-9401; archives.info@phila.gov; weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Register of Wills and Orphans’ Court: City Hall, Room 180, Philadelphia, PA 19107; Estate Services 215-686-6282; Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Register maintains probate and marriage-record channels. For a written City request, Philadelphia’s Open Records Policy accepts in-person, mail, fax, or email submissions and ordinarily requires a response within five business days unless an extension applies.