Welcome to the
Beverly, Massachusetts
Genealogy Project

Serving family history research in the
City of Beverly,
County of Essex, and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the
United States of America.

Essex County MA US GenWeb Project

Settled 1626 - Town 1668 - City 1894.

Local Resources

The following local resources may be of use in your searches:

• City of Beverly--its official website, with the City Government's Clerk, Cemetery, and Veterans' departments.
• Beverly Public Library--with local histories, genealogies, and a research department.
• The Beverly Room--library local history collections, genealogy information, and useful links.
• Beverly Historical Society--local history research library, collections, museum, and research.
• Maps and documents--provided by Robert Raymond, from his Raymond family page.

Public Records

• Essex County GenWeb details public records access for Beverly, Essex County, and Massachusetts.
• Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 are transcribed there, as well.
• Jane Devlin's Dunham-Wilcox-Trott-Kirk family web page has transcriptions of Augustus A. Galloupe's 1903 "Register of Baptisms of the First Church in Beverly" and 1907 "Early Records of the Town of Beverly, Essex Co., Mass." in the Reference Data section for Essex County Massachusetts (half-way down the page).
• You may also purchase official birth, marriage, and death certificates, for Beverly only, within the past one hundred years, from the City Clerk.

Cemetery Records

• Ancient Burying Ground, Abbott & Hale. Lookups available from the book "The Genealogical History of the Abbott Street Cemetery" by William C. Carlson. Email lookup request with the subject line Ancient Burial Ground Lookup.
• Dodge's Row Burying Ground, North Beverly. Lookups available from the transcriptions included in the Essex Antiquarian. Email lookup request with the subject line Dodge Cemetery Lookup.
• Ancient North Beverly Cemetery, transcribed, Conant Street, between Cabot & Dodge.
• Hale Street Cemetery.
• Green Family Burying Ground, Ryal Side. Four burials prior to 1800. Email request for information with the subject line Green Family Beverly.
• North Beverly Cemetery (Municipal), Conant & Cabot, (old section: North Beverly Meeting House Cemetery).
• Leach Cemetery, transcribed, Elliott Street, East Danvers.
• Beverly Farms Burying Ground, Haskell & Hart.
• Central Cemetery (Municipal), Dane & Butman. Look ups available for the Dane Street Cemetery prior to 1800 from transcriptions included in the Essex Antiquarian. Email lookup request with the subject line Dane Street Cemetery.

Help locating and transcribing these cemeteries is welcome. Contact the town coordinator, for more details.

Query Resources

Vital Records Lookup

Dan Driscoll volunteers at the City Hall of Beverly, MA. "I will do my best to help you."

Roll Call

Click here for a list of descendants researching their Beverly Ancestors.

Lookup Volunteers

Queries & Mailing Lists

If your concern does not relate to Beverly, or Essex County, Massachusetts then please, do not enter your information here.

Otherwise, Beverly, or Essex County, Massachusetts, queries, lookups, and surname registrations can be posted as directed on the Essex County Query Page.

Family Resources

The following families were originally, and were long, established in Beverly.

• Balch House Associates--in conjuction with the Beverly Historical Society.
• Dodge Family Association--a clearing house for Dodge genealogy.
• Hale Family Association--association for the family of Beverly's first minister.
• Woodbury/Ober Web Site--Larry Wert's web site for these two Beverly families.
• Royal Descents of Elizabeth Stratton Thorndike--a Haskell family newsletter article.

Nearby Towns

The following towns border Beverly: Danvers, Wenham & Manchester (by land), Peabody (across the Danvers River), Salem (by bridge), and Marblehead (across Salem Sound).

There are other nearby towns in Essex County, as well. You are encouraged to visit their Genealogy Projects, to help you further in your searches.

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