Scranton & Wilkes-Barre Skip Tracing
Eighteen miles of the Lackawanna and Susquehanna valleys separate two county seats that answer the same question in two different ways. Ask Wilkes-Barre who holds a civil judgment and the answer is a division of county government that has existed since 2012. Ask Scranton and the answer is an official the voters elect. Ask about anything before 1878 and the answer is in Wilkes-Barre either way, because the ground Scranton stands on was Luzerne County until then. We route requests here by fixing the date first, then the county.
The short version for the Wyoming Valley
Three counties, two county seats. Metro area 42540 is Lackawanna County, seated at Scranton; Luzerne County, seated at Wilkes-Barre; and Wyoming County, seated at Tunkhannock. The two big ones are structured differently from each other. Luzerne’s home rule charter, effective 1 January 2012, eliminated the elective office of the Prothonotary outright, and assigned the functions previously performed by the clerk of courts, coroner, prothonotary, recorder of deeds, register of wills and sheriff to a single Division of Judicial Services and Records headed by an appointed official. Lackawanna still elects its Recorder of Deeds to a four-year term. And both of them have a hard stop in 1878. Lackawanna County’s court records begin that year; anything earlier for the Scranton area is a Luzerne County record, held in Wilkes-Barre. So the first question on a file here is not which city. It is what date the document carries, because the date decides the county, the office and the index that will or will not show it.
Watch first: why two courthouses eighteen miles apart disagree
A short walk through how a Lackawanna request and a Luzerne request stop resembling each other.
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Four dates that decide which building holds the file
Most metros make you learn a map. This one makes you learn a calendar.
The Census Bureau assembles metropolitan areas out of whole counties linked by commuting, and it publishes the resulting delineations as files anyone can check. Metro area 42540, Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, is built from three of them: Lackawanna County, Luzerne County and Wyoming County. Two of those counties have their own courthouse, their own indexes and their own way of naming the person who keeps them, and the two courthouses are close enough that people move between them without noticing they have changed anything.
Pennsylvania’s habit of splitting county records across several separately titled offices — the prothonotary for civil matters, the clerk of courts for criminal, the register of wills for estates, the recorder of deeds for land — is set out at length on our Pittsburgh records page, and this page takes it as read rather than repeating it. What that page cannot show, because western Pennsylvania does not have it, is a metro where the same four functions sit in three different arrangements within a twenty-mile drive, and where the arrangement that applies depends on the year printed on the paper.
1878: the year the map moved under the records
Lackawanna County has not always existed. Its own Clerk of Judicial Records — the elected officer who is custodian of the documents of the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas — states that the office has held that function since 1878. The Lackawanna County Library System’s genealogy guide puts the practical consequence more bluntly for anyone researching back through it: for naturalizations before 1878, when what is now Lackawanna County was still part of Luzerne County, the request goes to the Prothonotary’s Office at the Luzerne County Courthouse, which the guide says holds a Luzerne naturalization index covering 1830–1906 and 1912–1944.
Read that again with a skip trace in mind. A deed, a court file or an estate touching a Scranton family before 1878 is not a Scranton record. It is a Wilkes-Barre record, filed by a county that Scranton was part of, indexed under a courthouse thirty minutes down the valley. Searches that treat “Scranton” as a fixed jurisdiction going backwards in time do not fail loudly. They come back empty, and empty reads exactly like absence.
1906: the year births stopped being a local matter
The Pennsylvania Department of Health is explicit that its Division of Vital Records only issues birth certificates for births that occurred in Pennsylvania since 1906. Before that year there is no statewide series to request, and the record, if it exists at all, was kept locally by a city, a county office or a church. The Lackawanna County Library System’s guide reflects that split precisely for this metro: for Scranton births between 1878 and 1905 it points researchers at local holdings, and for 1906 onward at the state.
That is not genealogy trivia on a locate. Confirming a date of birth is often what separates two people with the same name in a county where the same surnames have been in the same boroughs for four or five generations, and knowing whether the answer is a state request or a local one decides whether it takes a week or a month.
2012: the year Luzerne County stopped electing its record keepers
This is the fact that most reliably breaks a Pennsylvania records template, and it is not a matter of interpretation. In a petition published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, the Director of Judicial Services and Records of Luzerne County set out the position and the Court of Common Pleas acted on it. The document states that Section 12.04 of Luzerne County’s Home Rule Charter, effective January 1, 2012, eliminated the Elective Office of the Prothonotary, and quotes Section 12.07(E) of the same charter: the Division of Judicial Services and Records “shall be responsible for: the services and functions that prior to the effective date of this Charter were performed by the Clerk of Courts, Coroner, Prothonotary, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, and Sheriff, and any other powers, duties, programs, services, or functions that may be assigned by the Administrative Code.”
Six offices, one division. The county still publishes counters under the familiar names — there is a page headed Recorder of Deeds, another headed Register of Wills, another headed Prothonotary — but they are sections of an appointed division, and the county lists a Division Head of Judicial Services and Records above them. The Recorder of Deeds counter sits at 153 North River Street in Wilkes-Barre, with the county’s mailing address at the courthouse at 200 North River Street. Luzerne describes itself as one of only seven Pennsylvania counties incorporated under its own home rule charter, which was approved by referendum on 2 November 2010.
The practical effect on a records request is small and expensive. A letter addressed to “the Prothonotary of Luzerne County” is addressed to an office the charter abolished. It may still find a desk, because people are helpful, or it may sit. Meanwhile the same letter is correct in Wyoming County, where a Prothonotary is exactly what the county publishes.
The fourth date is whichever one your index stops at
Every free county search here has a cutoff year, and the cutoffs are not the same. That is the subject of the next section, and it is where more searches quietly end than at any legal or structural boundary.
Two county seats, and a third county nobody counts
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Tunkhannock keep the same categories of record under three different arrangements.
Lackawanna County kept its elected officers and renamed one of them
Lackawanna publishes its elected officials as a list, and the list is the map: Board of Commissioners, Clerk of Judicial Records, Controller, Coroner, District Attorney, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills, Sheriff and Treasurer. The Recorder of Deeds is a separate elected office, and the county states plainly that the Recorder is elected by the voters for a term of four years, that the office is a fee office collecting fees set by the state legislature, and that it must be kept separate from any other county office involved in the buying, selling or confiscation of land so that no conflict of interest can touch the land record.
Where Lackawanna departs from the standard Pennsylvania set is the court side. There is no Lackawanna prothonotary. There is a Clerk of Judicial Records, and the county describes it as running three divisions: a Civil Division holding liens, judgments and civil and equity files at a current caseload of roughly 8,000 a year; a Criminal Division, which the county identifies as the Clerk of Courts function, at roughly 5,000 a year and running on a statewide system; and a Family Court Division, begun in 2008, holding divorce and custody actions. Civil and family filings sit at the Lackawanna County Government Center on Wyoming Avenue in Scranton.
For a judgment search that distinction is the whole job. Liens and judgments in Lackawanna are a Civil Division matter inside an elected clerk’s office; eighteen miles south the same search is a section of an appointed division. Neither is harder than the other. Addressing the wrong one costs a cycle, and on a file with a deadline a cycle is the difference between serving someone and not.
Wyoming County is the conventional one, and it is a third of this metro
Wyoming County, seated at Tunkhannock along the Susquehanna above the Wyoming Valley, is the county that vanishes from every national tool that treats this metro as “Scranton.” It publishes a Prothonotary and a combined Register & Recorder — the traditional Pennsylvania arrangement in which land recording and probate share one office. We name those two offices and stop there. The county’s own detail pages for both were unreachable when we checked, and we are not willing to describe what an office does on the strength of where a link sits in a menu. On a live file we would call the counter and ask, which is what the counter is for.
That restraint is not pedantry. Menu structure is a genuinely unreliable guide to who does what in Pennsylvania: in Luzerne County the marriage-licence and estate enquiries are directed to the Register of Wills and Orphans’ Court, not to the office a casual reader might guess. We would rather publish three verified sentences about Wyoming County than eight plausible ones.
One metro, two federal courthouses
Above all of the county machinery sits a federal district that puts a courthouse in both cities. The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania states that its offices are in Scranton, Harrisburg, Williamsport and Wilkes-Barre, and publishes both local addresses: the William J. Nealon Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse at 235 North Washington Avenue, Scranton, and the Max Rosenn U.S. Courthouse at 197 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre. Very few metros this size carry two federal courthouses, and it matters for a search because federal civil and bankruptcy filings are a separate record layer from anything a county holds, with their own dockets, their own addresses of record and their own service history.
Where each county’s free index actually stops
The most common reason a search here returns nothing is that it hit a coverage boundary rather than the end of the trail.
Both counties publish honest, specific coverage dates for their online records. Almost nobody reads them, and the result is a search that concludes a person or a property has no history when in fact the search ran off the edge of a scanned range.
Luzerne County runs three routes at three different depths. Its free IQS Infodex and E-Film Reader covers older deeds from 1786 to 1967, and the Grantor/Grantee Index volumes one through five are free from 1786 to 1 August 1993. Its paid Landex Remote service carries images from 1968 to the present, with those images indexed from December 1980 to the present. Read the seams: there is free index but no online image for a great deal of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and there is an image-but-thin-index band between 1968 and December 1980. The county also runs a separate Records Facility holding archived material department by department, including archived Prothonotary, Recorder of Deeds and Register of Wills series from before the charter.
Lackawanna County splits at a different year entirely. Its Recorder of Deeds online document search runs 1957 to current, and an online index book search covers 1878 to 1956 — that 1878 date again, the year the county began. So the two counties’ free online windows do not line up with each other at any point, and a chain of title that crosses the county line, which a lot of them do in a valley this narrow, has to be worked in two different systems with two different gaps.
| What you are looking for | Lackawanna County (Scranton) | Luzerne County (Wilkes-Barre) |
|---|---|---|
| Civil judgments and liens | Civil Division of the elected Clerk of Judicial RecordsVerified | A section of the appointed Division of Judicial Services and Records |
| Criminal case file | Criminal Division, the Clerk of Courts function, on a statewide system | Clerk of Courts function inside the same division |
| Deeds and mortgages | Separately elected Recorder of Deeds, four-year term | Recorder of Deeds counter, 153 N River Street, under the division |
| Estates and heirs | Separately elected Register of Wills | Register of Wills and Orphans’ Court, under the division |
| Free online land index | Index books 1878–1956; document search 1957–current | Infodex 1786–1967; grantor/grantee index 1786–1 Aug 1993 |
| Anything dated before 1878 | Not a Lackawanna record at all. The territory was Luzerne County, and the file is in Wilkes-Barre. | |
A chain that crosses the county line mid-century is the ordinary case here rather than the exotic one, which is why title and closing work in this valley behaves differently from title work almost anywhere else — we set out how we support title companies and closing desks separately. The same 1878 seam is the single most useful thing to know when a family search stops dead, and it is the sort of wall we describe in our piece on getting past a genealogy brick wall.
The state keeps an office on Lackawanna Avenue
Two record sources that are not county records, and both of them are physically here.
Pennsylvania does not make everyone write to Harrisburg. The Department of Health runs a small number of Vital Records public offices across the Commonwealth, and one of them is in this metro: the Scranton State Office Building, Room 112, 100 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton, open Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM. It is one of six public offices the department lists statewide, alongside Erie, Harrisburg, New Castle, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. That is a genuine local advantage on a file where a certificate would settle an identity question, and it is invisible to any tool that only knows the state’s central mailing address.
Vital records are also tightly restricted, which is the point. Eligibility to obtain a certificate is defined by the department, not by whoever wants one, and we work inside that rather than around it. Where a certificate is not available to us we say so and use something else, rather than treating a closed door as an invitation.
The second non-county source is the plainest one and it is routinely skipped. When somebody moves, the mail moves first. The Postal Service operates a change-of-address and mail forwarding service, and the regulated products built on that data have rules about who may use them and for what. In a valley where a move is frequently three miles — Dunmore to Throop, Kingston to Forty Fort, Plains to Plymouth — forwarding data is often the freshest thing in the file, and it is also the thing most likely to be used carelessly. We use it under the permitted conditions and not otherwise.
Pennsylvania’s statewide court docket system is worth naming here even though we do not link it, because a lot of people arrive expecting it to be an address book. It is published by the state’s Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts and it is a genuinely useful finding aid for confirming that a case exists and which county it is in. It is not a locate. The address on a docket is the address the court had on a date, which is a different claim from the address someone lives at now, and the difference between those two sentences is most of our job. The wider Commonwealth picture, including the counties beyond this metro, sits in our guide to locating someone anywhere in Pennsylvania.
Why a single “Scranton” field gets this metro wrong
The problem is not thin data. It is one county column trying to hold three arrangements and two centuries.
| What the file needs settled | Answered against a named office | Answered by a bulk data pull |
|---|---|---|
| County of record for the subject | Named from the three counties of metro 42540Verified | A city name, with the county inferred or omitted |
| Which office to write to | Elected officer, appointed division or traditional row office, per county | Not a field the data carries at all |
| Records before 1878 | Searched in Luzerne County, where they actually are | Searched under Lackawanna and reported as absent |
| Wyoming County | Worked as the third county of the metro | Frequently missing; it is not a name the tool associates with Scranton |
| Age of the address | Dated to the instrument or the docket entry that produced it | Undated, or dated to a vendor refresh |
| What happens when it is thin | You get told which county came back empty and which index range we could reach, rather than being handed the newest available record as though somebody had confirmed it. | |
A bulk pass is a reasonable opening move, and one gets made on every file here. What settles the matter is what follows it: a records pass, worked against named offices in three named counties. That is the method behind all of our skip tracing work, applied here to a region whose paperwork is unusually well kept and unusually badly signposted.
Six ways a search here comes back empty and should not have
Each of these is a date or an office-name error rather than a missing person.
Writing to a Luzerne prothonotary
The charter eliminated that elective office effective 1 January 2012. The function survives inside a division; the office does not. A request addressed to a title the county no longer uses is a lost cycle nobody reports back to you.
Filing Scranton under the wrong county
Scranton is the seat of Lackawanna County; Wilkes-Barre is the seat of Luzerne. Templated city pages get this backwards often enough that we check the county attribution at the top of every file rather than inheriting it.
Running a pre-1878 name through Lackawanna
The county did not exist. Anything earlier is Luzerne County paper held in Wilkes-Barre, and the search that skips that returns a clean empty result that looks exactly like proof of nothing there.
Stopping at the free index
Luzerne’s free deed index runs to 1967 and its images start in 1968; Lackawanna’s index books stop in 1956. A gap in a free range is a gap in the range, not a gap in the county’s holdings.
Treating the metro as two cities
Wyoming County is a third of this metro’s counties and Tunkhannock is not a name most tools connect to Scranton. Scope the search to the two big counties and part of the map was never searched.
Same name, same borough, four generations
Boroughs here hold the same surnames for a very long time. Without a confirmed date of birth, two candidates collapse into one record, and the wrong one gets served, mailed or sued.
The order we work a Lackawanna or Luzerne request
Four stages, in this sequence: each one sets the limits of the stage after it.
Agree the purpose in writing
The lawful purpose behind the request is settled and recorded before any search opens. Nothing is pulled on the strength of an intention described over the phone.
Fix the date range, then the county
We establish what period the file actually covers, because in this metro that determines whether the record is a Lackawanna one, a Luzerne one or a Wyoming one before anything else is decided.
Name the current office
Elected officer, division section or traditional row office. We confirm the present name at that county’s own published pages rather than reusing a template that was right two charters ago.
Date and source every address
Nothing is called current on a single hit. Each candidate address travels with the office that produced it and the date printed on the underlying document, and anything we could not corroborate is marked as such in the report.
What we will not do, in a valley where people are easy to find
Some of the outfits bidding for this work open by naming an investigator license. We hold no such license, and this page will not be written as though we did.
This is a records practice, not an investigative one. Every input is either a public record or data we hold under a lawful license, and a file does not open until the lawful purpose behind it has been set down in writing and agreed. Nobody on this team holds a Pennsylvania private investigator license, and nothing written here should be read as a claim to that status. Where a matter turns out to need licensed investigative work, we flag it at intake and refer the matter out rather than quietly widening our own remit to cover it.
We do not pretext, ever. Nobody here telephones a county counter, a payroll office, a rental agent or a cousin under a borrowed identity, and nobody here coaxes a clerk into surrendering a file that would be withheld the moment we gave our real name. Two of the methods that circulate freely in advice about finding someone who has moved — calling a former employer to ask where they went, or asking a previous landlord for a forwarding address — are exactly the shape of thing we decline to do. Private financial accounts sit outside the scope entirely, and the line is easy to draw at a Pennsylvania counter. A recorder of deeds will hand anyone a recorded mortgage or a satisfaction of judgment, because those are filed instruments in a public series. What sits inside the account behind them — the balance, the monthly statement, the transaction history — was never filed anywhere, we have no lawful route to it, and we do not go looking for one.
Consumer reporting agency is a defined status under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and this firm does not hold it; a consumer report is a defined document, and nothing we issue is one. Landlord and employer enquiries reach us steadily in this valley, so the boundary is better stated as a list of decisions than as a principle. A tenancy decision is one of them — an application, a renewal, one rental applicant weighed against another. An employment decision is another — a hire, a promotion, a retention. Our findings carry neither, and they equally cannot decide whether credit is granted or at what rate, whether an insurance policy is written or how it is priced, or whether a professional licence or a public benefit is awarded. Every one of those belongs to a consumer reporting agency working under the Act. Where that is the call being made, the honest answer is that you need a different kind of vendor, and we would rather say so before you spend anything than sell you a search that becomes a liability the moment it is used.
The requests we turn down, and why this metro makes that concrete
Some people are difficult to locate because they have taken deliberate steps to be. Pennsylvania operates an Address Confidentiality Program through the Commonwealth’s Office of Victim Advocate, which gives survivors of domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault a substitute address to use in place of their real one. A valley this tight is exactly where a program like that earns its existence: eighteen miles between two river cities is not much distance to put behind you if the new address is sitting in a published index.
So we decline requests that appear aimed at reaching a person who left for their own safety, and requests connected to a protective order, a no-contact condition or a confidential-address arrangement. That is not a paragraph at the foot of a page; it is a decision made at intake, and it is final. A request of that shape draws more scrutiny from us, not less — rewording it, routing it through somebody else or offering a larger fee does not change the answer. A tight, walkable valley where families have stayed in the same boroughs for generations is precisely the kind of place where being found is not a neutral event, and we would rather lose the work than get that wrong. Treat this page as general information and not legal advice: it describes how three counties file their paperwork, and what to do in an actual matter is a question for your own attorney.
Who brings us a file from this valley
Six recurring senders, each running into the same calendar from a different direction.
Counsel filing in two seats
A matter that touches both courthouses and needs the right office named in each.
Recovery desks chasing a lien
Judgments indexed by an elected clerk in one county and a division section in the next.
Servers routing a short drive
An address dated to a document, so a run down the valley is not wasted on a stale one.
Heir searches crossing 1878
A family line that runs back through a county boundary that did not exist yet.
Closing desks with a split chain
A title chain that changes county custodian partway down and changes index with it.
Relatives who lost the thread
A person who moved three miles and out of contact, in a valley where that is easy to do.
Property managers and owners come to us as well, generally once a former occupant has gone and a balance is outstanding. That is a locate and it stays a locate: it must not be turned around afterwards to weigh a new applicant, a renewal or any rental decision. If what sits underneath is an unpaid Pennsylvania judgment rather than a bare locate, the machinery of enforcement is a separate subject, and our page on collecting a judgment in Pennsylvania is where it lives.
If an index does not reach that far back, we tell you the year it stopped
Every address we return arrives with the office that produced it and the date the document carries. Where a county’s coverage ran out we name the range we could reach rather than implying we searched the whole of it, and where a counter did not answer us we say which one. You get a first read on any workable request within 24 hours, and you are not billed for a guess dressed up as a finding.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Luzerne County still have a prothonotary?
Not as an elected office. A petition published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin by the county’s own Director of Judicial Services and Records states that Section 12.04 of Luzerne County’s Home Rule Charter, effective January 1, 2012, eliminated the Elective Office of the Prothonotary, and quotes Section 12.07(E), under which the Division of Judicial Services and Records became responsible for the functions previously performed by the Clerk of Courts, Coroner, Prothonotary, Recorder of Deeds, Register of Wills and Sheriff. The county still publishes counters under those familiar names, but they are sections of an appointed division rather than separately elected offices. Wyoming County, in the same metro, does publish a Prothonotary.
Which counties make up the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre metro area?
Three: Lackawanna County, seated at Scranton; Luzerne County, seated at Wilkes-Barre; and Wyoming County, seated at Tunkhannock. That is metro area 42540 in the Census Bureau’s delineation. Wyoming County is the one that disappears from national tools, because Tunkhannock is not a name most systems associate with Scranton, and it is a third of the metro’s counties rather than a rounding error.
Who holds deed and property records in each county?
In Lackawanna County, a separately elected Recorder of Deeds, which the county states is elected by the voters for a four-year term and operates as a fee office kept deliberately separate from any county office involved in buying, selling or confiscating land. In Luzerne County, a Recorder of Deeds counter at 153 North River Street in Wilkes-Barre that sits inside the Division of Judicial Services and Records rather than standing as its own elected office. In Wyoming County, a combined Register and Recorder, the traditional Pennsylvania arrangement in which land recording and probate share one office.
How far back do the online record searches actually go?
Further than most people expect, and the two counties stop at different years. Luzerne publishes a free Infodex and E-Film Reader covering older deeds from 1786 to 1967, free grantor and grantee index volumes from 1786 to 1 August 1993, and a paid Landex service carrying images from 1968 to the present, indexed from December 1980. Lackawanna publishes an online document search from 1957 to current and an index book search covering 1878 to 1956. Those windows do not align with each other at any point, so a chain of title that crosses the county line has to be worked twice.
Why does 1878 keep coming up in Lackawanna County records?
Because that is where the county’s records begin. Lackawanna County’s Clerk of Judicial Records states that the office has been custodian of the Court of Common Pleas documents since 1878, and the Lackawanna County Library System’s genealogy guide advises that for naturalizations before 1878, when what is now Lackawanna County was still part of Luzerne County, the request goes to the Prothonotary’s Office at the Luzerne County Courthouse in Wilkes-Barre. For a records search that means anything older than 1878 touching the Scranton area is a Luzerne County document, and a search scoped only to Lackawanna will return an empty result that looks identical to proof that nothing exists.
Where do I get a birth or death record for someone from Scranton?
The Pennsylvania Department of Health states that its Division of Vital Records only issues birth certificates for births that occurred in Pennsylvania since 1906, so 1906 is the practical dividing line. For anything from that year onward the state is the custodian, and there is a Vital Records public office in this metro rather than only in Harrisburg: the Scranton State Office Building, Room 112, 100 Lackawanna Avenue, open Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, one of six the department lists statewide. Earlier records were kept locally and have to be chased locally. Eligibility to obtain a certificate is set by the department, and we work inside those rules rather than around them.
Can I search these records myself for free?
A great deal of it, yes, if you have the time and you know which office and which year you need. Both counties publish free index searches, Pennsylvania publishes court docket sheets through its statewide system, and the Census delineation that defines the metro is public. Access is not the thing we charge for; the routing is. A Luzerne filing goes to a section of an appointed division: the 2012 charter eliminated the elective office of the Prothonotary outright and moved the recorder-of-deeds and register-of-wills functions into that same division, so there is no separately elected row office left to send it to. The identical Lackawanna filing goes to an elected Clerk of Judicial Records eighteen miles up the valley. Put the seams on top of that — Luzerne’s free deed index stopping in 1967 while its images begin in 1968, and anything before 1878 sitting in the other county altogether — and what you are buying is a fortnight of phone calls you do not have to make.
Are you licensed private investigators?
No. There is no Pennsylvania private investigator license behind this team, and nothing on the site suggests otherwise. Several of the firms ranking for these searches genuinely are licensed detective agencies, which is a different service sold against a different brief. Ours is a paper trade: county index books, court dockets and licensed data files, unlocked only once the lawful purpose behind a request has been set down and agreed. There is no surveillance in it and no pretexting — nobody here rings a former employer, a rental agent or a courthouse counter wearing a false name, whatever the file is worth. Where a Lackawanna, Luzerne or Wyoming matter genuinely needs a licensed investigator, we identify it during intake and hand it to somebody who is one.
Send us the date on the document
Give us the subject, the last address you have, the period the matter covers and the purpose behind the request. We will tell you whether it belongs in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre or Tunkhannock, which office holds it under the arrangement in force for that year, and what the record actually says. Unsure whether the file even sits in these three counties? Ask us before you spend anything and we will give you a straight answer.
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