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Research Services

If you are a BCLS cardholder and you are interested in requesting research, please contact our Reference Department for information.

If you are not BCLS cardholder, the Burlington County Library's fees for research for non-cardholders are as follows:

Photocopies:

If you are looking for a newspaper notice of a specific event (i.e., birth, marriage, obituary/death notice, or news article) and you know the date, the BCL charge is $5.00 for the search PER NOTICE plus $.25 per photocopied page (e.g., 2 obituaries = 2 notices = $10.50).

Pre-payment is required and the fee includes postage. Please note: research fees are non-refundable.

Mail your written request with the appropriate fee to the Reference Department at the address below. Please allow 15 working days.

Contact address:

Burlington County Library
Local History/Genealogy Research Request
5 Pioneer Boulevard
Westampton, NJ 08060

We look forward to helping you with your family trees!

The Delia Pugh Biddle Library at the Burlington County Historical Society holds the following titles.

Beverly Banner
1880-1890, 1924-1963

Beverly Weekly Visitor
1877-1879

Burlington Advertiser
1790-1791

Burlington Press
1940-1945

Central Record
1897-1992

Community News (Browns Mills)
1983-1993

Daily Enterprise (Burlington)
1884-1940

Florence Township News
1935-1966

Moorestown Chronicle
1934-1940

Mount Holly News
1886-1919

New Jersey Gazette
1777-1786

New Jersey Mirror
1818-1947

Please note: The newspapers and other local history resources in the Burlington County College microfilm collection have been transferred on long term loan to the Burlington County Library Headquarters microfilm collection.

Burlington County Library System has an extensive collection of newspapers on microfilm at the Headquarters branch. Branch libraries in Bordentown, Medford and Riverton also have the microfilm of their respective community newspapers.

The newspapers on this list are all available at BCLS Headquarters in Westampton. Titles that are also held by a BCLS branch or member library are noted with a ‡.

Please note that newspapers tend to change titles over the years and therefore some of titles below may be part of the same newspaper over time.  For example, the "Mount Holly Herald" changed its title to "Burlington County Herald".

Check out our guide to other locations that might have information on your ancestors, on the places where they lived their lives, and on the times in which they lived.