Church records rank among the best genealogical records available. Records can include birth/baptismal, marriage, and death/burial information as well as attendance and other records.

• Records from several Centre County churches can be found in books and in the files at the Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library and Historical Museum in Bellefonte. Titles of published books on the shelves there can be searched in the Centre County Libraries' Catalog.
  
  

• These represent the strands of religious practice in Centre County as it has been known throughout the years:

  • 1877 History of Religious Affiliations
  • 1906 Census of Religious Adherence
  • 1990 Census of Religious Adherence