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Beaver County Genealogy and History Center
250 East End Ave.
Beaver, PA 15009
Phone: (724) 775-1775

Hours
 
 
Monday, Tuesday,and Wednesday, Thursday 10 AM to 4 PM
Friday Closed
Saturday                         10AM-3PM
Sunday
            Closed

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! 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 (4) 
Copying Machine 
Many types of genealogical forms
WI-FI
Vertical files on many topics including, canals, bridges, companies, schools, townships, organizations, churches, etc. 

Early Tax Records to 1800-1900( not all years available for all townships)
Tax records for some other townships to 1925 
All available property tax records for 1890 (census substitute).
Beaver County Directories 
Index to Beaver County Marriages, Wills, Orphans Court records, Tax Rolls
Wills 1803-1926 on microfilm 
Beaver County Census 1800-1940 
High School Yearbooks 
Beaver County Registrations of Births and Deaths 1893 - 1906
Death Registrations 1893-1906
Civil War Tax records
Deeds to 1866
Grantor/Grantee Index to approximately 1910
Index to Delayed Birth Registration
Divorce index  1800-1926
Agricultural Census 1850,1860,1870,1880
Marriage licenses 1885-1900
Administrators Index
 

Newspapers on Micro-film: Some of these papers were only published weekly.  Obituaries were not common until approximately 1900.
Woodlawn Gazette 1921-1931
Aliquippa Gazette 1932-1946
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 to 1954
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 
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 
Ambridge Citizen 1904-1906

Obituary Notices from Newspapers:
Beaver Falls Tribune 1907,1908, 1914, 1916,1917, 1918, 1921 - 1934, 1950, 1951 
Beaver Falls Review 1920 - 1944 
Woodlawn Gazette (Aliquippa) 1921 - 1931 
Aliquippa Gazette 1932 - 1940 
Aliquippa Gazette & Aliquippa News 1941, 1942 
Aliquippa Gazette & Evening Times 1943 - 1946 
Beaver County Times/News Tribune - 1957 - Present
Beaver Times Daily 1934-1935

Tax Records

The following tax records are available
Aliquippa, 1895-1900
Baden, 1869-1870, 1885-1900
Beaver, 1860-1870, 1887-1900
Beaver Falls, 2nd ward 1893,1895-1900
3rd Ward 1887-1888, 1890-1891, 1894-1900
4th Ward 1887-1900
5th Ward 1887-1900
Big Beaver Twp., 1803-1870, 1887-1900
Borough Twp., 1819-1825, 1827-1840, 1842-1870, 1887-1900
Bridgewater, 1860, 1862-1870, 1880, 1887-1900
Brighton Twp., 1817,1820, 1821-23,1824, 1825-27,1828, 1829-31,1832, 1833-38, 1840, 1848, 1865
Chippewa Twp., 1817-1825, 1827-1870, 1887-1900
College Hill, 1893-1900
Darlington Borough, 1857-1870m 1887-1900
Darlington Twp., 1848-1870, 1887-1900
Daugherty Twp., 1895-1900
East Rochester, 1909-1925
Eastvale, 1893, 1896, 1899
Economy Twp., 1840-1870, 1886-1900
Fallston, 1830-1870, 1887-1900
First Moon Twp., 1802
Frankfort, 1857-1870, 1887-1900
Franklin Twp., 1851-1870, 1887-1900
Freedom, 1841-1870, 1887-1900, 1912
Georgetown, 1857-1870, 1887-1900
Glasgow, 1859-1870, 1889-1900
Greene Twp., 1813-1870, 1883, 1887-1900
Hanover Twp., 1805-1870, 1886-1900
Harmony Twp., 1852-1870, 1886-1900
Hookstown, 1857-1870, 1887-1900
Hopewell Twp., 1813-1814, 1816-1826, 1828-1870, 1887-1900
Independence Twp., 1849-1870, 1887-1900
Industry Twp., 1857-1870, 1881, 1887-1900
Little Beaver Twp., 1803-1842, 1844-1845, 1847-1849
Marion Twp., 1851-1855, 1857-1870, 1887-1900
Monaca, 1898
Moon Twp., 1840, 1842-1849, 1854, 1857, 1863
New Brighton , 1865
North Ward 1870, 1887
South Ward 1886-1887
Middle Ward 1888
Ist Ward 1889-1900
2nd Ward 1889-1900
3rd Ward 1889-1900
New Galilee, 1870, 1887-1900
New Sewickley Twp., 1803-1806, 1808,1810, 1816, 1818-1821, 1827-1832, 1834-1838, 1839,1840-1870 1887-1925
North Beaver Twp., 1803-1807, 18-9-1811, 1813-1847, 1849
North Sewickley Twp., 1803-1824, 1826-1829, 1832-1870, 1886-1900
Ohio Twp., 1807-1808, 1810, 1811-1818, 1820, 1822-1870, 1879, 1887-1900
Patterson Twp., 1843-1867, 1869-1870, 1887-1900
Perry Twp., 1846, 1848-1850
Phillipsburg, 1850, 1874
Pulaski Twp., 1855, 1857-1870, 1886-1900, 1920
Raccoon Twp. , 1834-1870, 1887-1900
Rochester, 1850-1870, 1886, 1892-1897 -2 wards, 1898-1900 4 wards, 1901-1914  -3 wards, 1915-1916 4 
wards, 1918-1923 – 3 wards, 1924-1925 4 wards
Rochester Twp., 1841-1870, 1886-1925
St. Clair, 1868-1870, 1887-1898
Second Moon Twp., 1805
Sewickley, 1802
Shenango Twp., 1805-1816, 1821, 1823-1824, 1827-1834, 1839-1847, 1849
Shippingport, 1911-1925
Slippery Rock Twp., 1838-1846, 1848-1849
South Beaver Twp., 1804-1870, 1887-1900
Wayne Twp., 1846-1849
White Twp., 1889-1900
 
 
 
 
 


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