Get a Birth Certificate in Montgomery County, PA
This service isn't handled by the Register of Wills & Clerk of the Orphans' Court. Here's where to go instead.
Certified birth certificates are issued by Pennsylvania Vital Records (Department of Health), not the county office. Note: some county Registers of Wills hold pre-1906 birth and death records for genealogical research.
🌐 Go to the official portalhealth.pa.gov ↗Each certificate is $20.00. Posting this form is the cheapest route — ordering online adds a $10.00 service fee on top. Mail it to the Division of Vital Records in New Castle, or take it to one of the six walk-in offices (Erie, Harrisburg, New Castle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton), where a request handed in before 2.30pm can be issued the same day; Philadelphia is by appointment, the other five take walk-ins. Pennsylvania vital records are state-held, so this office cannot issue one. The $20.00 is waived for serving and honourably discharged members of the US Armed Forces and their spouses or widows, up to ten copies a year, and separate waiver forms exist for people experiencing homelessness, foster and juvenile-justice-involved individuals, people affected by opioid use disorder, and victims of a declared natural disaster — ask before paying if any of those fit.
⚠️ This office does not process birth certificates. Use the agency linked above. The office below is your county's Register of Wills & Clerk of the Orphans' Court — useful for other services.