The Charles W. Galloupe Sr.
Memorial Library

Call us at
(978) 922-1186
for more information.

We have joined NMRLS (Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System) and are in the process of cataloging our book collection. To search for titles of interest online, please use the MASSCAT Library Catalog, part of a union catalog for a diverse group of Massachusetts libraries.

Admission to the research library for non-members is $5.00 per day.

Researchers:

Our collections include books, records, photographs, and newspapers relating to Beverly and Essex County. In addition we have a large collections of maritime documents and genealogical records. You are invited to visit our facility and take advantage of these resources.

NOTE: For security reasons the use of all items that are stored in our two manuscript vaults,(manuscripts, deeds, diaries, ship logs, and various images of people and homes) is limited to current members only.  Most local house research thus would require a current membership. Positive photo ID is required, and a request form must be filled out when requesting items from our secure storage areas. 

Local Historical  & Genealogical Research

Professional Genealogist On Staff

(Effective Date: 1 July 2007)

We can undertake on a limited fee basis, a historical or genealogical search for you off site (via telephone, email, or written request). For a prepaid, non-refundable $25.00 per hour fee, (one hour minimum) our staff genealogist, staff researchers and/or volunteers will consult appropriate catalogs, directories, books, manuscripts, census data, published genealogies, photographs and other sources. [NOTE: The fee for current Beverly Historical Society members is only $20.00 per hour]

Photocopies of relevant material will be provided to you at $.25 per page. While this basic level search does not guarantee results, it does provide from afar access to our resources and skilled researchers. We will advise you of sources consulted and results. 

After an initial one hour search you may purchase additional research time at $25.00 per hour prepaid, in up to 4 hour blocks. Because of research backlogs, this process may take up to three weeks.

Please state briefly what is known, what data is sought and any sources already consulted. Please be as detailed as possible and fill out the form completely. Please provide us with both an e-mail address and your postal mailing address if possible.

We thank you for your interest and wish you success in your research.

Please fill out our research request form and mail it to Beverly Historical Society, 117 Cabot St., Beverly, MA 01915 or e-mail your research question to our professional genealogist, and local historian, at  sphall@beverlyhistory.org

If you want to call and consult with the genealogist and/or local historian please call 978-922-1186 during our normal working hours, (10 am - 4 p.m., Tue, Thur., Fri, & Sat.) and ask to speak with Mr. Hall.

In 2001-2 Beverly Historical Society collaborated with Beverly High School and Massachusetts Historical Society on an innovative primary research project by local students. Led by teacher Dean Eastman and school librarian Kevin McGrath, students researched the life and career of Nathan Dane, a prominent late 18th-century Beverly resident, in the research libraries of Beverly and Massachusetts Historical Societies. To learn more about this model digital project and to read the students' papers, which are available along with related primary documents from the BHS and MHS collections, go to Primary Research at:

http://www.primaryresearch.org/PRTHB/Dane