FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Tasks-Court 4

WikiProject Pennsylvania Progress Chart  Wiki Project Pennsylvania Tasks - Court Records: 4

Description
The purpose of this task is to add the Orphans' Court information for your selected county.

Instructions
1. Find the heading Orphans' Court on your county page. If there are the words See Vital Records in the heading, remove them.

2. Place this template directly under the heading Orphans' Court.

3. Add the Orphans' Court information to the Repository-Courthouse section of your couny page. Place this information following the Courthouse and before Prothonotary information.

4. To locate the county Orphans' Court, search the following websites:


 * Pennsylvania Courthouses Click at the bottom of the page under County Seats. Click on the highlighted county name to access the courthouse web site.
 * Google "[county name and state] Orphans' Court"

5. Add the following information:


 * Orphan's Court
 * Address
 * Phone number
 * Email

Put a  between each item and it will send the information to a new line.

Note: If the address for the courthouse and and the Orphans' Court is the same, you will only need to add telephone, hours, or other pertinent information to the Orphans' Court. If the Orphans' Court is combined with Clerk of Courts, or the Prothonotary, please indicate that within the courthouse section. You may also add that information to the court records section.

6. You may also wish to include the following:


 * Rules for using the Orphans' Court collections
 * Copy policies
 * Research help
 * Entrance policies

7. Return to the Court Records section.

8. If there are any unusual aspects to the Orphans' Court, add one or two sentences that discuss those strengths or peculiarities.

9. If you copy a link and add it to the county page, make sure the link works. Do not add any broken links.

10. If you need to use a dash, be sure to use the N–dash. This is done by holding the Alt key and typing 0150.

11. Verify that the link to Vital Records within the template is working for your county. If it is not and you need help fixing this link, contact Lisa.

11. Your task is complete.

Courthouse
Clerk of Court/ Orphan’s Court: 1st Floor Phone: 724-852-5281 or 724-852-5282

Court of Common Pleas
Greene County, Pennsylvania court records are housed at the Greene County, Pennsylvania Courthouse. For many counties copies of court records may be found at the Pennsylvania State Archives or in the FamilySearch collection. Note that within these collections some films may contain the same records, but have different titles. Other titles are not duplicates. See Finding Court Records at other repositories within this section for links to the online catalogs for these two collections. Films at the Pennsylvania State Archives are not available for inter-library loan. If court records are available for your county, FamilySearch films may be ordered at a local Family History Center.

Courthouse
Greene County Courthouse 10 East High Street Waynesburg, PA 15370 Phone: 724-852-5280

Clerk of Court/ Orphan’s Court: 1st Floor Phone: 724-852-5281 or 724-852-5282

Prothonotary 1st Floor Phone: 724-852-5288 or 724-852-5289