Beaver County Genealogy
and History Center Second Floor, Carnegie Free Library
1301 Seventh Avenue
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania 15010
Phone: (724) 847-9253
Hours
Monday
12PM - 4PM
Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday
10 AM to 4 PM
Friday
10AM - 3PM
Saturday
10 AM to 3 PM
Materials in History Center
Surname Files There are at least 12 file cabinets (4/5 drawers each) stuffed to the
max with files containing correspondence that has come from other genealogists
for over twenty five years. All are filed by the surname being researched.
If you send us your family group sheets, we put them in the surname file.
Who knows, tomorrow a distant cousin might do the same thing! Newspaper
clippings are also dropped in the surname files. There could be a wealth
of information waiting for you--you just need to ask. We can't promise
the answers to all your questions on your ancestors but we'll sure give
it a try with all the resources that we have. (Please see the "Contacting
the BCGHC" page for information on writing to the Beaver County Genealogy
and History Center for research help.)
Microfilm and Microfiche Readers
Copying Machine
Many types of genealogical forms
Early Tax Records to 1840
Tax records for some other townships to 1925
All available property tax records for 1890 (census substitute)
Naturalization Indexes available on line to 1906 at http://www.co.beaver.pa.us/Prothonotary/naturalization.htm Beaver County Directories
Index to Beaver County Marriages, Wills, Orphans Court records, Tax
Rolls
Wills 1803-1926 on microfilm
Beaver County Census 1800-1930
High School Yearbooks
Beaver County Registrations of Births and Deaths 1893 - 1906
Civil War Tax records
Deeds to 1866
Grantor/Grantee Index to approximately 1910
Index to Delayed Birth Registration
Divorce index 1800-1926
Newspapers on Micro-film: Some of these papers were only published
weekly. Obituaries were not common until approximately 1900.
Argus & Radical 1882, 83, 84, 87, 88, 93-94
Argus & Radical 1882 - 1894
Beaver Argus August 2, 1843 - July 19, 1871
Beaver Argus & Radical July 26, 1871 - March 21,
1878
Beaver Times 1881 - 84
Beaver County Times April 1979 - present
Beaver Falls Evening Tribune 1881 - 84, Jan. 1, 1912
- Feb 1950
The News Tribune March 1950 - April 11, 1979
Beaver Falls Globe 1881 - 82
Beaver Valley News 1881- 84
Daily Times October 24, 1905 - April 7, 1913
Daily Tribune Sept 10, 1903 - Dec. 31, 1907
Globe Advertiser 1881
Independent 1881
N. Brighton Centennial Ed 1838 - 1938
Rochester Daily Argus 1883 - 84
Star Bicentennial Special Edition Valley News 1882 -
84
Western Argus June 11, 1830 - July 18, 1843
Weekly Tribune Sept 8, 1897 - July 7, 1906
IGI on micro-fiche for the following: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia,
England, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Panama, Poland,
Netherlands, Rumania, Scotland, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Wales and all
of the United States.