The Research Center for Beaver County was founded in 1971 by the Beaver County Commissioners, the Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls, and the Beaver Falls Historical Society. It became a non-profit corporation in 1981.
The mission of the Research Center is to provide a central site for study, reference, research and preservation of Beaver County documents and books, both genealogical and historical.
Our holdings include several thousand books of local interest, thousands of files containing newspaper clippings and pamphlets on local topics, files on surnames, businesses, towns, churches and schools, and newspaper obituaries. The Research Center also has a large collection of Bound Manuscripts. Bound manuscripts are primary sources that provide a wealth of information about local history, community and individuals that have not been previously published. Some of the different kinds of manuscripts include minute books of town, township and county governments, and various organizations, hotel registers, tax collector’s records, doctor account books, scrap books, personal day books and church records. The Beaver County Genealogical Society also houses its collection at the center.
The Research Center for Beaver County is free and open to the public but monetary donations are accepted to help with preservation.
Research queries may be sent to the Director, however, fees are charged for this service.
Fee Schedule:
Obituaries with a known date $5.00 each
Obituaries with only a month and a year $10.00 each
We will not do full year searches.All other research will be billed at $15.00 per hour which includes 4 copies. One hour of research must be paid in advance. Each additional hour will be billed at $15.00 per hour and 25 cents per page. You must authorize any additional hours. If you do not, one hour only will be spent on your query.
Absolutely no research will be done until initial fees are received.
Make checks payable to:
Research Center for Beaver County
1301 7th Ave.
Beaver Falls, PA 15010
Please include a SASE.Books for Sale
1. Beaver County Bicentennial Atlas, (Published by the Beaver County Bicentennial Commission, Beaver, Penna., 1976 Denver L. Walton Editor $25.00
2. 1833 Residents of Phillipsburg (Monaca), Pennsylvania, An Historic Register Transcribed from German Script and Supplemented with Notes Author: Eileen Aiken English $21.00
3. Caldwell's 1876 Atlas on CD $25.00 plus tax and shipping. See link at top of page for request form.Make checks payable to Research Center for Beaver County.
General questions may be sent via email (beavercountyresearch@yahoo.com) but queries still must be sent via snail mail and be accompanied by a check or money order.