The document discusses Pennsylvania state records and what can be found online at pennsylvania.staterecords.org. Some key points include: - Pennsylvania death records listing cause of death can be found on the website if someone has forgotten a family member's date of death. - Criminal records on the website provide a person's criminal history from local, county, and state jurisdictions as well as correctional facilities. - Pennsylvania court records are available to the public according to the 1957 Pennsylvania Right to Know Law, also known as the Sunshine Act, guaranteeing public access to governmental records. - Vital records maintained by the Pennsylvania Office of Vital Records include birth certificates, marriage licenses, death certificates, and statistical

1. Pennsylvania Death Records
If you have forgotten the death date of any of your family member, you can find it in PA death records.
https://pennsylvania.staterecords.org/vital.php

2. https://pennsylvania.staterecords.org/criminal.php
A criminal record is defined as an official document that records a person’s
criminal history. The information is assembled and updated from local, county
and state jurisdictions, trial courts, courts of appeals as well as county and state
correctional facilities. The standard for criminal record collection and storage
varies from county to county, but the majority of Pennsylvania criminal records
are organized in online record depositories that are available to the public in the
form of a Criminal Background Report. This report is accessed through a number
of courts, police departments and the official Pennsylvania State Records Online
Database.
What Defines a Criminal Record in Pennsylvania?

3. https://pennsylvania.staterecords.org/court.php
Why Pennsylvania Court Records are Available to the Public?
In 1957, a law was established by the Pennsylvania State Legislature and signed
into action. The law was named the Pennsylvania Right to Know law and aims to
ensure disclosure of court records and other public records to the public
What Court Records Access Means To You?
The Pennsylvania Right to Know law is also known as the Pennsylvania Sunshine
Act, which states that people have the right to access information concerning the
conduct of people’s business. It is a series of laws designed to guarantee that the
public is provided access to public records of governmental bodies in
Pennsylvania.

4. https://pennsylvania.staterecords.org/vital.php
Pennsylvania Vital Records
The Office of Vital Records is responsible for maintaining all state-level vital
records created, administered and maintained by the state of Pennsylvania
regarding a person’s most important life events. These records include such
documents as birth certificates, marriage licenses and death certificates and
are compiled and stored in a permanent central registry that state entities
use to develop statistical analysis of its population.

5. https://pennsylvania.staterecords.org/background.php
What is Background Check?
A background check or background investigation is the process of looking
up and compiling criminal records: such as Arrest, Warrants, type of felony
or misdemeanor as well as Incarcerations and sex offender records, civil
records: such as marriage, divorce, birth, death and civil court cases,
publicly available property records: such as property owned with its
estimated value and other purchased goods that might have been used as
a collateral in the past and last type of data that cab be present in the
background check is bankruptcy records.
The background check also might include the information on the previous
places of residence, years of residence and other people residing at those
addresses.