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Most of the genealogical materials at Rutgers can be found in the Libraries' department of Special Collections and Archives which is housed in the Alexander Library in New Brunswick. In addition to the Libraries' own New Jersey holdings, the collection includes the papers of the New Jersey Daughters of the American Revolution and the papers of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey. Available material includes transcriptions of family Bible records, gravestone inscriptions, church records, papers and genealogical compilations on New Jersey families, and many other printed materials. A detailed guide Genealogical Resources: Archibald S. Alexander Library is available in pdf format..

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More information about Special Collections, including travel directions, is available at their home page.

In addition to the New Jersey materials housed in Special Collections, there are also major microform collections available at other Rutgers Libraries. The Alexander Library in New Brunswick has all available enumeration schedules for New Jersey federal and state censuses, collections of New Jersey city directories, and many New Jersey newspapers in its Microforms Collection. The Robeson Library in Camden also has the Camden/Southern Jersey portion of many of these in its collections. Printed materials of interest may also be found in other Rutgers libraries.

Basic Resources

Ancestry's red book : American State, County & Town Sources / edited by Alice Eichholz. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City, UT : Ancestry, 1992.
Roger D. Joslyn's chapter on New Jersey (pp. 498-508) is an outstanding source for information on the kinds of New Jersey records that are available, and where they can be found.
Camden: Ref. CS49 .A55 1991
Dana: Ref. CS49 .A55 1991

Genealogical Resources: Archibald S. Alexander Library
In addition to the unpublished resources available in Rutgers' Special Collection and University Archives, this guide also lists the major printed resources for New Jersey genealogical research available in the Sinclair New Jersey Collection.

Where to Write for Vital Records - New Jersey
Addresses and costs for obtaining New Jersey birth, death, marriage and divorce records.

NJGenWeb Societies
Directory, with links when available, of New Jersey genealogical societies, historical societies, and museums.

New Jersey Family History Centers
Family history centers are branches of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, the largest genealogical library in the world. The FHL circulates about 100,000 rolls of microfilm records to family history centers every month for public use. For more information on Family History Centers policies and resources see the Family History Centers FAQ. To identify materials that are available for circulation to Family History Centers, search the FHL Library Catalog

National Archives and Records Administration--Northeast Region (NYC)
The regional NARA office maintains archival records for federal agencies and courts for New Jersey and New York. Collection includes Federal population censuses for all States, 1790-1920; indexes for the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 censuses; indexes to selected passengers arrival records for Eastern and Gulf Coast ports; and indexes to selected naturalization records processed through Federal courts in New Jersey and New York.

Where's That?

Snyder, John Parr, The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries, 1606-1968. (New Jersey. Bureau of Geology and Topography. Bulletin 67). Trenton, Bureau of Geology and Topography, 1969.
Changes in county, township, and city boundaries, with maps.
ALEX: DocRef F142.B7S6 Suppl.: DocRef F142.B7S67 1988
Camden: Ref F142 .B7S6 Suppl.: Ref F142.B7S6 1988
Dana: Ref QE141 .A19 no.67 Suppl.: DocNJ F142.B7S67 1988
LSM: DocNJ QE141 .A19 no.67 Suppl.: DocNJ QE141.A19 no.67 suppl.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F142 .B7S6

New Jersey Local Names Directory
New Jersey place names from the N.J. State Department of Transportation.

The Origin of New Jersey Place Names. Trenton, New Jersey Public Library Commission, 1945.[PDF; Adobe Acrobat required]
Origins of 930 names of New Jersey governmental and geographical subdivisions. List compiled by the New Jersey Writers Project in 1938; includes those names "whose authenticity has been reasonably established."

New Jersey (and Pennsylvania) Place Names
"A table showing the changes to place names in the present state of New Jersey."

Town Name Changes: Monmouth and Nearby Counties, NJ

Historical Maps of New Jersey
Digitized maps from Rutgers Cartography plus links to other map sites.

Sanborn fire insurance maps, New Jersey, [1884-1970] [microform]. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1983.
44 microfilm reels
Extremely detailed, large scale plans of a cities and towns drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. Includes the size, outline, and often the function, of each building. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
Alex: Microfilm 2672

Fire insurance maps from the Sanborn Map Company Archives : late 19th century to 1990, New Jersey [microform] / Bethesda, MD : University Publications of America, c1992.
24 microfilm reels
Detailed maps of 167 New Jersey cities and towns covering the period 1945-1991. These maps were not deposited with the Library of Congress and are not duplicated in the set above.
Alex: Microfilm 2754
Camden: Microfilm G3811.G475S2 1992 (Reel 2 only).

Sanborn Map of New Brunswick, New Jersey 1886
Part of the Rutgers New Jersey Environmental Digital Library. Index and separate map for each section of the city."The alphabetical index of street names shows which street is located in which section. The map also has the building key for all the maps, as well information about the current population, prevailing winds, water facilities, and fire department."

Family Bible Records

As part of its Genealogical Society of New Jersey collection, Rutgers' Special Collections and University Archives houses the largest collection of records copied from New Jersey, and other, family Bibles.

This collection consists of over 5,600 records. The majority of the records pertain to 19th century (pre-1850) individuals, although many 18th century names are listed as well. Individual records are listed in a file by surname.

In addition, bible records transcribed by the New Jersey State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution and previously housed at the New Jersey Historical Society, are now available in Special Collections and University Archives.

If you would like to know if a family name that you are interested in appears on our index files and are unable to use the collection on site, please see the section on Genealogical Research (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/genealogy/genealogy.shtml) on the SC/UA webpage.

Genealogical Compilations

Rutgers' Special Collections and University Archives has a number of major genealogical compilations including

The Charles Carroll Gardner Collection
This collection has two major components:

  • A series of about 60 volumes devoted to pre-Revolutionary New Jersey families and individuals arranged alphabetically by surname. Entries consist of information taken from the New Jersey Archives series and many county, town, and church records.
  • A large card file collection arranged by surname, and consisting of records copied from civil, court, land, probate, and other sources. All references are to individuals who lived in Essex, Union, or Morris counties from the colonial era to the first half of the 19th century.

Note: Another extensive collection of materials relating to northern New Jersey families compiled by Charles Carroll Gardner is located at the New Jersey Historical Society.

The John Pickens Dornan Collection
A large collection, with a surname card index, of information on Quakers and other families of South Jersey. The collection also includes abstracts (incomplete) of 18th and 19th century South Jersey Quaker meetings.

The Emigrant Register
A collection of about 30 binders compiled by the Genealogical Society of New Jersey and consisting of data sheets on 19th-century individuals who emigrated from New Jersey to other parts of the country.

New Jersey Diaries, 1746-1905
Chiefly 19th century diaries and journals of New Jersey residents. This is a composite collection made up of numerous small collections. Descriptions of many of the individual collections can be found in Donald Sinclair's Guide to Manuscript Diaries and Journals in the Special Collections Department, Rutgers University, (1980). Alex, Camden, Douglass: Ref. PN4390.S56; Special Collections: SNCLNJ PN4390.S56

If you would like to know if a family name that you are interested in appears in any of these collections and are unable to use the material on site, please see the section on Genealogical Research (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/genealogy/genealogy.shtml) on the SC/UA webpage.

Churches

Special Collections and Archives is the repository for the records of a number of churches and religious bodies. These are described in:

    Sinclair, Donald A. A Guide to Original and Copied Records of Religious Organizations, Largely New Jersey Churches, in the Special Collections and University Archives of Rutgers University. New Brunswick, N.J. : Genealogical Society of New Jersey, 1999.
    SNCLNJ Z7757.N5G85 1999

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project. Directory of churches in New Jersey. 21 volumes. Newark : The Historical Records Survey, 1940-41.
Contents: 1. Atlantic county.--2. Bergen county.--3. Burlington county.--4. Camden county.--5. Cape May county.--6. Cumberland county.--7. Essex county.--8. Gloucester county.--9. Hudson county.--10. Hunterdon county.--11. Mercer county.--12. Middlesex county.--13. Monmouth county.--14. Morris county.--15. Ocean county.--16. Passaic county.--17. Salem county.--18. Somerset county.--19. Sussex county.--20. Union county.--21. Warren county.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ BR555.N5H48
Camden: X BR555.N5H48 v.4

Newark, N.J. : Historical Records Survey. Inventory of the church archives of New Jersey. 1938-1941.

    Baha'i Assemblies. Dana Ref CD3380.H54B27; Special Collections: SNCLNJ CD3380.H54B27
    Baptists, Seventh-Day Baptists. Special Collections :SNCLNJ BX6248.N5H6
    Congregational Christian Churches. Dana Ref. CD3380.H54C6; Special Collections: SNCLNJ BX7148.N5H6
    Evangelical Church. Dana Ref. CD3380.H54E9; Special Collections: SNCLNJ BX7517.N5H6
    Presbyterians, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., United Presbysterian Church of North America. Special Collections: SNCLNJ BX8957.N5H6
    Protestant Episcopal, Diocese of New Jersey, Diocese of Newark. Dana Ref. CD3380.H54P7; Special Collections: SNCLNJ BX5917.N5H6
    The Salvation Army, Jersey City. Dana Ref. CD3380.H54S3; Special Collections: SNCLNJ BX9718.J56H6
    Unitarian Church. Special Collections: SNCLNJ BX9833.5.N5H6

Gasero, Russell L. Guide to Local Church Records in the Archives of the Reformed Church in America and to Genealogical Resources in the Gardner Sage Library, New Brunswick Theological Seminary. New Brunswick, N.J. : Local Church Archive Group, 1979.
Special Collections: SNCLY2 BV707.G37 1979

Guide to Local Church Records in the Archives of the Reformed Church in America and Other Repositories. Compiled by Russell L. Gasero and Erica McLaughlin. [PDF; Adobe Acrobat required]
The Archives, housed in the Gardner Sage Library of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, is the repository for the records of more than 240 Reformed congregations, the majority of which are from New Jersey or New York. [Please note that while the campuses are adjacent, the New Brunswick Theological Seminary is NOT part of Rutgers University.]

Holland Society of New York. Year book of the Holland Society of New York. New York, 1912, pp. 1-51.
Lists the New Jersey Dutch Reformed and Lutheran records at the Holland Society Library.
Alex: CS25.H737Y 1912

Dirnberger, Janet Drumm. New Jersey Catholic Baptismal Records from 1759 to 1781. Seabrook, Tex. : Brambles, 1981.
Index to 285 baptismal records.
Special Collections: SNCLY F133.D57

The Archdiocese of Newark Collection, part of the Special Collections Center at Walsh Library of Seton Hall University, includes archival records of churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, which until 1881 included all of New Jersey. The collection includes microfilmed copies of parish registers from 1832 to 1914, as well as individual parish histories, parish census data, church and school building histories, oral histories and some sacramental records. The archive is also the repository for the sacramental records of churches within the archdiocese that have closed within the last 20 years.

There is a list of Catholic Churches of Essex County which indicates which churches have deposited their records at Seton Hall.

New Jersey Churchscape
A database and photographic inventory of the 18th & 19th century churches in New Jersey.

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Database based on the Social Security Administration's Death Master File. Basic information on deceased individuals--the majority of whom died after 1962--who had a Social Security number and whose death was reported to the SSA. When available, information includes surname, given name, social security number, date of death, date of birth, last known residence, and the location to which the final benefit was sent.

Newspapers

If you are interested in information published in New Jersey newspapers, keep in mind that in addition to any original copies that may be housed in the Libraries' Sinclair New Jersey collection, the Alexander Library also maintains an extensive newspaper collection on microfilm.

To find out what the Rutgers Libraries' may own in print or on microfilm, check IRIS, the Libraries' online catalog, under the title of the newspaper in which you are interested. The basic directory of New Jersey newspapers is the

Directory of New Jersey Newspapers, 1765-1970 / edited by William C. Wright and Paul A. Stellhorn. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1977.
ALEX, CAMDN, DANA, DGLSS, KLMR, SPCOL REF Z 6952 .N54 D57

While we do not offer a "look-up" service for obituaries, the Rutgers Libraries will usually (although not always) lend newspapers on microfilm to other libraries via interlibrary loan. So if you are not able to come and use the materials on site, you may have a library that you are affiliated with request that the reels of the newspaper for the period in which you are interested be sent to that library for your use.

The New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library has online their Inventory of New Jersey Newspapers on Microfilm.

The New Jersey State Archives has over 8,000 master negative reels of nearly 600 New Jersey newspapers on microfilm. Duplicate copies are available for sale; some titles are also available for interlibrary loan.

For some more information on New Jersey newspapers, see the Newspapers guide.

Lupp, Robert E., New Jersey Obituaries Index, 1974-1983. Trenton, N.J. : Division of State Library, New Jersey State Dept. of Education, 1983.
Selective index to obituaries from seven New Jersey newspapers: Atlantic City Press, Asbury Park Press, The Record (Bergen), Camden Courier Post, Star Ledger (Newark), The Trentonian and The Times (Trenton).
Alex: Ref. F133.L86 1983; Doc Ref. F133.L86 1983
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F133.L86 1983
Camden: F133.L86 1983; Doc NJ. F133.L86 1983

Storer, Agnes Williamson, List of Marriage and Death Notices Appearing in the New Brunswick Newspapers Between the Years 1792-1816. New Brunswick, N.J., 1931.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ CS68. S884L

The Elmer Tindall Hutchinson Papers in Special Collections include abstracts (4 folders and 4 drawers of cards) of marriage and death notices, 1792-1865, from newspapers published at New Brunswick. The New Brunswick newspapers abstracted include: Guardian or New Brunswick Advertiser, 1792-1807 and 1810-1813; Fredonian (later New-Brunswick Fredonian), 1811-1827, 1838-1844, 1847-1851 and 1861-1865; Times and New Brunswick General Advertiser (and its successors), 1815-1823 and 1858-1862; and New Brunswick Daily News,, 1855-1858.
Special Collections: MSS MC 866

Index to the Times and the Times and New Jersey Union, 1859-(June) 1868 : A Compilation of Obituaries, Marriages, Injuries, Accidents, Advertisements and Petitions. Kendall Park, NJ : New Jersey Information Service, 1993.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F144 .N4I53 1993

Index to New Brunswick Daily Times, 1872-1876 : A Compilation of Obituaries, Marriages, Injuries, Accidents, Arrests, Social Clubs and Other Significant Local and Regional Items of Interest. Kendall Park, NJ : New Jersey Information Service, c1992.
ALEX: Ref. F144 .N4I38 1992
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F144 .N4I38 1992

Index to New Brunswick Daily Times, 1877-1881 : A Compilation of Obituaries, Marriages, Injuries, Accidents, Arrests, Social Clubs and Other Significant Local and Regional Items of Interest. Kendall Park, NJ : New Jersey Information Service, 1992.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F144 .N4I38 1992b

Index to New Brunswick Daily Times, 1887-1891 : A Compilation of Obituaries, Marriage Announcements, Injuries, Accidents, Arrests, Social Happenings, and Other Significant Local and Regional Items of Interest. Kendall Park, NJ : New Jersey Information Service, 1993.
Special Collections: SNCLY3 F144 .N4I534 1993

New Jersey Obituary Links
Links to current obituaries; newspaper obituary archives; transcribed obituaries; and cemetery transcriptions.

Asbury Park Evening Press

Trenton Obituary Indexes
Year by year indexes to obituaries found in Trenton newspapers, including the Trenton Sunday Advertiser (1901-1911); the Trenton Sunday Times Advertiser (1913-1924); and the Trenton Times (1984-June 1985).

Tombstone Transcriptions

Since the 1920s, members of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey have been involved in copying the inscriptions found on tombstones in New Jersey cemeteries. There is a large collection of these transcribed tombstone inscriptions in Rutgers Special Collections. An index arranged by county and the name of cemetery for which information exists is available in Special Collections and is also online.

Special Collections also has a Master File of New Jersey Gravestone Inscriptions consisting of 16 file drawers of transcribed inscriptions arranged alphabetically by surname. Only selected cemeteries are represented in this file.

If you wish to know if a name is listed in the Master File and are unable to use the collection onsite, please see the section on Genealogical Research (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/libs/scua/genealogy/genealogy.shtml) on the SC/UA webpage.

The New Jersey Historical Society in Newark has 20 manuscript volumes, with indexes, of New Jersey cemetery inscriptions compiled in the early 1900s. All counties with the exceptions of Camden, Hudson, Hunterdon, Passaic, and Warren counties are represented.

The Gloucester County Historical Society has an online list of cemeteries for which it has inscriptions. Primary counties represented are: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Monmouth, Ocean, and Salem.

There are also a number of transcription sites on the web, including:

New Jersey Tombstone Transcription Project Registry
Listing by county of cemetery transcriptions completed and in progress that have been registered with the rootsweb project.

Monmouth County, New Jersey Cemetery Transcriptions
Transcriptions plus nearly 40,000 headstone photographs.

African American Cemeteries Online: New Jersey

Military Records

The Chester N. Jones Collection
30,000 cards, arranged by surname, on New Jersey soldiers in the Revolution.

Special Collections and University Archives also has records from a number of New Jersey militia units, the majority from the Civil War period. Many of these are described in

    Rutgers University. Libraries. A guide to the manuscript collection of the Rutgers University Library / compiled by Herbert F. Smith. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Libraries, 1964.
    Alex, Art, Camden, Dana, Douglass, LSM: Ref. Z6621.R963
    Alex, Camden, Kilmer: Z6621.R963
    Special Collections SNCLNJ Z6621.R963.

Many individual New Jersey military records up to World War I can be obtained from the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton.

The National Personnel Records Center-Military Personnel Records NPRC (MPR) is the repository for military personnel, health, and medical records of discharged and deceased veterans who served in the military in the 20th century. Due to privacy laws, access to service records is restricted to the veteran and their next-of-kin (unremarried widow or widower, son or daughter, father or mother, brother of sister) or third parties who have secured the veteran's (or next-of-kin's) signed authorization.

Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War
Searchable database based on William Stryker's 1872 work.
Print version also available in Special Collections (SNCLNJ E263.N5N55 1993), Alex (E263 .N5N55), Camden (E263 .N5N55 1872a)and Dana (Ref. E263 .N5N55)

Index of the Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War / prepared by the New Jersey Historical Records Survey Program, Work Projects Administration. Baltimore, MD : Reprinted for Clearfield by Genealogical Publishing, 1989.
WPA index to General William S. Stryker's Official Register. See also Jackson (1977) below.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E263.N5N555 1989

Jones, E. Alfred. The Loyalists of New Jersey; Their Memorials, Petitions, Claims, etc., From English Records. With a new introd. and pref. by George Athan Billias. Boston, Gregg Press, 1972.
Reprint.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E277.J78 1972
Camden: F131.N62 v.10

Brush, Theodore V. The King's Men on Command : A Compilation on the New Jersey Loyalist Volunteers in the American Revolution. Port Jervis, N.Y. : Minisink Valley Historical Society, c1998.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E277.6.N5B78 1998

Waldenmaier, Inez Raney. Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in New Jersey Before 1834. Tulsa, Okla. : I. Waldenmaier, c1983.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F138.W34 1983

New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office. Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars, 1791-1815. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1970.
Contents: Expedition against the Indians in 1791.--Pennsylvania insurrection in 1794.--Naval war with France, 1798-1801.--Naval war with Tripoli, Africa, 1801-1805.--War with Great Britain, 1812-1815.--Naval war with Algiers, Africa, in 1815.
Reprint of 1909 edition. Includes name, rank, dates of enrollment and discharge.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F138.A5
Alex: CS25.N532R 1791-1815 (1909 edition)
Camden: F138.A5

Jackson, Ronald Vern. Index to Military Men of New Jersey, 1775-1815 / editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples. Bountiful, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1977.
Index to Stryker's Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War and to the Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars, 1791-1815.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F138.A169

Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the War with Mexico, 1846-1848. [Trenton : s.n., 18__]
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E521.3.R47 1800z

Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Searchable version of William Stryker's classic 1876 work.
Print volumes also available in Special Collections (SNCLNJ E521.3.N54), Alex (Folio E521.3.N54) and Dana (Ref. E521.3.N54).

New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office. Register of the Commissioned Officers and Privates of the New Jersey Volunteers, in the Service of the United States. Jersey City, Printed by J. H. Lyon, 1863.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ CS25.N532ARe
Alex: UA342.A5 1863

Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of New Jersey [microform]. Washington : National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1964.
26 microfilm reels.
Contents: v. 1. A-Bar -- v. 2. Bas-Bo -- v. 3. Br-Cal -- v. 4. Cam-Com -- v. 5. Con-Dau -- v. 6. Dav-Dr -- v. 7. Du-Fh -- v. 8. Fi-Ga -- v. 9. Ge-Hal -- v. 10. Ham-He -- v. 11. Hi-Hy -- v. 12. I-Kem -- v. 13. Ken-La -- v. 14. Le-Mal -- v. 15. Mem-McG -- v. 16. McH-Moo -- v. 17. Mor-O'C -- v. 18. Od-Pl -- v. 19. Po-Ri -- v. 20. Ro-Scho -- v. 21. Schr-Sk -- v. 22. Sl-St -- v. 23. St.G-Ti -- v. 24. To-V -- v. 25. W-Wh -- v. 26. Wi-Z.
Alex: Microfilm 2771

Soldiers of the War of the Rebellion (Civil War) from Ocean County, N.J.
Lists taken from Salter's History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Name, company, regiment, date enrolled, and date discharged/mustered out/died/transferred, etc.

The New Jersey Historical Society in Newark has an 11,000-card index, arranged by county, to burial records for New Jersey Regiment Infantry Volunteers in the U.S. Civil War. Only veterans who are buried in the state of New Jersey are included.

New Jersey Roll of Honor: Union Soldiers Interred in the Military Asylum Cemetery, D. C., 1861-1864.
Includes name, rank, regiment, company, and date of death.

New Jersey Korean War Memorial
Includes name, rank, and service branch.

New Jersey Military Personnel Who Died From Hostile Action (Including Missing and Captured) in the Korean War, 1950-1957
Includes name, rank, branch of service, date of death, and category of death. Sorted by surname and by "home of record," i.e., county (Army personnel) or city/town (Air Force, Navy, or Marine personnel).

New Jersey Military Personnel Who Died (Including Missing and Captured Declared Dead) As a Result of the Vietnam Conflict, 1957-1995
Includes name, rank, branch of service, date of death, place of death, date of birth, and type of casualty. Sorted by surname and by the "home of record," i.e., city or town.

The American Battle Monuments Commission has searchable (by name) databases of those interred at the American military cemeteries overseas and those Missing in Action from World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Record includes rank, branch of service, serial number, company, state entered service from, date of death, cemetery and plot, and military awards.

Immigration and Naturalization

Immigration Records

Most immigrants to New Jersey arrived via the ports of New York or Philadelphia; a small number came directly to ports in New Jersey.

Immigrant Ships Index
Currently six "volumes" of transcriptions of ship passenger lists have been completed, with each volume consisting of 1000 transcribed lists. Includes ships arriving from the 17th through the 20th centuries. Browse by date, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival (including New York and Philadelphia) or surname; or search by name. Volume 2 includes a list of passengers arriving in Newark in 1836 and at a unspecified New Jersey port in 1662; Volume 3 includes a list of passengers landing in Cape May in 1828, and Volume 5 includes a list of passengers landing in Perth Amboy in 1685. A project of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.

Passenger Search - American Family Immigration History Center
Index to ship manifests listing more than 22 million immigrants and passengers who came through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. Stephen P. Morse's One-Step Search of the Ellis Island Database allows you to set advanced search parameters in your initial search.

Tepper, Michael. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819 : The Philadelphia Baggage Lists / general editor, Michael H. Tepper; transcribed by Elizabeth P. Bentley. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1986.
As until 1820 federal law did not require that passenger lists for ships arriving at American ports be maintained, the "baggage lists" are among the oldest existing passenger lists. Arranged by surname, the lists identify about 40,000 passengers primarily from Great Britain (especially Northern Ireland) and Germany.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ CS68.T464 1986

Swierenga, Robert P. Dutch Immigrants in U.S. Ship Passenger Manifests, 1820-1880 : An Alphabetical Listing by Household Heads and Independent Persons / compiled by Robert P. Swierenga. 2 volumes. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 1983.
Approximately 55,000 names from 100,000 passenger lists of Dutch nationals arriving at New York and Philsdelphia as well as Baltimore, Boston, New Orleans, and certain minor ports. Where available, entries include name, relationship within the family, sex, age, occupation, destination, country of origin, vessel, port of embarcation, on board accommodation, and port of arrival.
Alex: E184.D9S95 1983

The Famine Immigrants : Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851 / Ira A. Glazier, editor ; Michael Tepper, associate editor. Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983-1986.
Contents: v. 1. January 1846-June 1847 -- v. 2. July 1847-June 1848 -- v. 3. July 1848-March 1849 -- v. 4. April 1849-September 1849 -- v. 5. October 1849-May 1850 -- v. 6. June 1850-March 1851 -- v. 7. April 1851-December 1851.
Chronological listing of nearly 651,000 passengers with name, age, sex, occupation, date of arrival, port of embarcation, and vessel.
Alex: E184.I6F25 1983
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E184. I6F25 1983

Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports / edited by Ira A. Glazier, P. William Filby. Wilmington, DE : SR Scholarly Resources, 1988-.
Currently, 67 chronologically-arranged volumes covering the period 1850-1897, each listing approximately 70,000 names, have been published. Each volume has an index to the names listed in that volume. Up to 1890, coverage includes all major U.S. ports; beginning with 1891 only arrivals at the port of New York are included. The period covered in each volume can be found listed at the German Roots site.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E184.G3G38 1988

Germans to America : Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports in the 1840s / edited by Ira A. Glazier. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, 2002-
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E184.G3G38 2002

Italians to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. Edited by Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1992- .
Contents: v. 1. January 1880-December 1884 -- v. 2. January 1885- June 1887 -- v. 3. July 1887-June 1889 -- v. 4. July 1889-October 1890 -- v. 5. November 1890-December 1891 -- v. 6. January 1892-December 1892 -- v. 7. January 1893-September 1893 -- v. 8. October 1893-May 1895 -- v. 9. June 1895- June 1896 -- v. 10. July 1896-June 1897 -- v. 11. June 1897-May 1898 -- v. 12. May 1898-April 1899 -- v. 13. May 1899-November 1899 -- v. 14. December 1899- May 1900. -- v.15, May 1900-November 1900 -- v.16 November 1900-April 1901.
Chronologically arranged volumes, projected to cover the period 1880-1915. Name index in each volume. To date, volumes have included only those Italians arriving at the port of New York.
Alex: E184.I8I844 1992 (vols. 1-9)
Special Collections: SNCLNJ E184.I8I844 1992

New York City Immigrants (Austria, Galicia, Poland), 1890
Searchable database of some 44,000 immigrants from Austria, Galicia, and Poland who arrived at the Port of New York between January 2, and December 30, 1890.

Olsson, Nils William. Swedish passenger arrivals in New York, 1820-1850. Chicago, Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1967.
Alex: E184.S23O43

Naturalization Records

New Jersey Historical Records Survey Project. Guide to Naturalization Records in New Jersey. Newark, N. J., The Historical Records Program, 1941.
Naturalization procedures, as well as abstracts of Colonial, New Jersey, and Federal naturalization laws, up to 1940. County by county listing of what records were available at each county clerk's office and their arrangement.
Dana: Ref. JK1822 .N5H5
Special Collections: JK1822.N5H6 1941

Most New Jersey naturalization records are available from the office of the County Clerk in the county in which the naturalization was recorded.

Copies of naturalizations by court action or statute for all New Jersey counties from the 1600s to about 1830 are also available from the New Jersey State Archives in Trenton. The State Archives also have copies of Burlington, Camden, Mercer, and Union county naturalizations from about 1830 to 1906.

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has duplicate records of all naturalizations that occurred after September 26, 1906. The INS has an index to their naturalization certificate files (C-Files), and can retrieve individual records based on name, date of birth, and place of birth. Requests must be made as a Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act request.

Monmouth County Naturalizations 1800-1981
Finding aid to collection transfered from the Monmouth County Clerk's office to the Monmouth County Archives (Manalapan, New Jersey).

Census Records

Federal Census Records

New Jersey census records for the first four federal census--1790, 1800 (except for Cumberland County), 1810, and 1820--have not survived. Except for parts of Hudson County, the 1890 (11th census) records were destroyed in a fire at the National Archives in 1921.

An online index to the 1880 U.S. census is now available.

The following population schedules are available at the Rutgers Libraries:

Fifth census of the United States, 1830 [microform] : population schedules, New Jersey. 5 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1. Bergen and Essex counties -- reel 2. Burlington and Monmouth counties -- reel 3. Gloucester, Cape May, Salem and Cumberland counties -- reel 4. Morris, Sussex and Warren counties -- reel 5. Somerset, Middlesex and Hunterdon counties.
Alex: Microfilm 2691
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1830/ M19 (Reels 2 & 3)
Population schedules of the sixth census of the United States, 1840 [microform] : New Jersey. 5 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1. Atlantic, Bergen and Burlington counties -- reel 2. Cape May, Cumberland, Essex counties -- reel 3. Gloucester, Hudson and Hunterdon counties -- reel 4. Middlesex and Morris counties -- reel 5. Sussex, Salem and Warren counties.
Alex: Microfilm 2692
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1840 /M704 (2 reels; Burlington County and Gloucester County).
Population schedules of the seventh census of the United States, 1850 [microform] : New Jersey. 5 microfilm reels
Alex: Microfilm 2693
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1850/ M432 (reels 3-4 and 10; Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester Counties).
Population schedules of the eighth census of the United States, 1860, [microform] : New Jersey. 7 microfilm reels
Contents: reel 1. Atlantic, Burlington, and Camden (pt. 1) counties -- reel 2. Camden (pt. 2), Cumberland and Essex (pt. 1) counties -- reel 3. Essex (pt. 2), Gloucester and Hudson (pt. 1) counties -- reel 4. Hudson (pt. 2), Hunterdon and Mercer counties -- reel 5. Middlesex, Monmouth and Morris counties -- reel 6. Ocean, Passaic, Salem and Somerset (pt. 1) counties -- reel 7. Somerset (pt. 2), Essex, Union and Warren counties.
Alex: Microfilm 2694
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1860/ M653 (reels 3-5 and 10; Burlington, Camden, & Gloucester Counties).
Population schedules of the ninth census of the United States, 1870 [microform] : New Jersey. 9 microfilm reels
Contents: reel 1. Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden (pt. 1) and Essex (pt. 2) counties -- reel 2. Camden (pt. 2), Burlington (pt. 2, Cape May and Cumberland counties -- reel 3. Essex (pt. 3), Gloucester and Hudson (pt. 1) counties -- reel 4. Hudson (pt. 2) and Hunterdon (pt. 1) counties -- reel 5. Hunterdon (pt. 2), Mercer and Middlesex (pt. 1) counties -- reel 6. Middlesex (pt. 2), Monmouth and Morris counties -- reel 7. Esssex county (pt. 1) -- reel 8. Ocean, Passaic, Salem and Somerset (pt. 1) counties -- reel 9. Somerset (pt. 2), Sussex, Union and Warren counties.
Alex: Microfilm 2695
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1870/ M593 (reels 3-7 and 12; Burlington, Camden, & Gloucester Counties).
Population schedules of the tenth census of the United States, 1880 [microform] New Jersey. 30 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 770-771. Atlantic, Bergen -- Reel 772-773. Burlington. -- Reel 774-775. Camden. -- Reel 776. Cape May, Cumberland -- Roll 777-780. Essex -- Reel 781. Essex, Gloucester -- Reel 782-786. Hudson -- Reel 787. Hunterdon -- Reel 788-789. Mercer -- Reel 790-791. Middlesex -- Reel 792. Monmouth -- Reel 793. Mercer -- Reel 794. Ocean, Passaic -- Reel 795-796. Passaic -- Reel 797-798. Salem, Somerset -- Reel 799-800. Sussex, Warren -- Reel 801. Warren, Union.
Alex: Microfilm 2696; Index (Soundex): Microfilm 2704 (49 reels)
Camden: Microfilm C3 .223/9 :1880/ T9 reels 3-6, 12 (772-775, 781).
You can now also search the 1880 U.S. census online.
Twelfth census of the United States, 1900, New Jersey. 46 microfilm reels
Contents: reel 1. Atlantic -- reel 2. Atlantic, Bergen -- reel 3. Bergen -- reel 4. Bergen, Burlington -- reel 5. Burlington, Camden -- reel 6-7. Camden -- reel 8-9. Cumberland -- reel 10-17. Essex -- reel 18. Essex, Gloucester -- reel 19. Gloucester, Hudson -- reel 20-27. Hudson -- reel 28. Hudson, Hunterdon -- reel 29. Hunterdon, Mercer -- reel 30. Mercer -- reel 31. Mercer, Middlesex -- reel 32. Middlesex -- reel 33. Middlesex, Monmouth -- reel 34. Monmouth -- reel 35. Monmouth, Morris -- reel 36. Morris -- reel 37. Ocean, Passaic -- reel 38-40. Passaic -- reel 41. Passaic, Salem -- reel 42. Somerset, Sussex -- reel 43. Sussex, Union -- reel 44. Union -- reel 45. Union, Warren -- reel 46. Warren.
Alex: Microfilm 2698; Index (Soundex): Microfilm 2703 (203 reels).
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1900/ T623 (Reels 4-7; 13-14)
Thirteenth census of the United States, 1910, New Jersey 46 microfilm reels
Contents: reel 1. Atlantic -- reel 2-3. Bergen -- reel 4. Bergen, Cape May -- reel 5. Burlington -- reel 6. Burlington, Camden -- reel 7-8. Camden -- reel 9. Cumberland -- reel 10-18. Essex -- reel 19. Gloucester, Hudson -- reel 20-28. Hudson -- reel 29. Hunterdon, Mercer -- reel 30-31. Mercer -- reel 32-33. Middlesex -- reel 34. Middlesex, Monmouth -- reel 35. Monmouth -- reel 36. Morris -- reel 37. Morris, Ocean -- reel 38-40. Passaic -- reel 41. Passaic, Somerset -- reel 42. Somerset, Salem -- reel 43. Sussex, Union -- reel 44. Union -- reel 45. Union, Warren -- reel 46. Warren.
Alex: Microfilm 2699
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1910/ T624 reels 5-6, 19 (871-872, 885).
14th census of population, 1920. New Jersey [microform]. 59 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1015. Atlantic. -- Reel 1016. Atlantic, Bergen. -- Reels 1017-1019. Bergen. -- Reel 1020. Bergen, Burlington. -- Reel 1021. Burlington. -- Reels 1022-1023. Camden Co.--Camden City. -- Reel 1024. Camden Co.--Camden City; Camden Co. -- Reel 1025. Camden Co., Cape May. -- Reel 1026. Cumberland. -- Reel 1027. Cumberland, Gloucester. -- Reels. 1028-1030. Essex Co. -- Reels. 1031-1039. Essex Co.--Newark City. -- Reels 1040-1050. Hudson Co.--Jersey City. -- Reel 1051. Hudson Co.-Jersey City (cont.), Hunterdon. -- Reel 1052. Mercer Co.-Trenton City. -- Reel 1053. Hunterdon. -- Reel 1054. Mercer Co.-Trenton City. -- Reels 1055-1057. Middlesex. -- Reels 1058-1059. Monmouth. -- Reel 1060. Morris. -- Reel 1061. Morris, Ocean. -- Reels 1062-1063. Passaic. -- Reels 1064-1066. Passaic Co.--Paterson City. -- Reel 1067. Salem, Somerset. -- Reel 1068. Somerset, Sussex. -- Reels 1069-1071. Union. -- Reel 1072. Union, Warren. -- Reel 1073. Warren.
Alex: Microfilm 2718; Index (Soundex): Microfilm 2734 (253 reels).
Camden: Microfilm C3.223/9 :1920/ T625 reels 1020-1025, 1027 .
15th census, population, 1930. New Jersey [microform]. 84 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1-2. Atlantic (part) (1308-1309) -- reel 3. Atlantic (part), Bergen (part) (1310) -- reel 4-9. Bergen (part) (1311-1316) -- reel 10. Bergen (part), Burlington (part) (1317) -- reel 11. Burlington (part) (1318) -- reel 12. Burlington (part), Camden County, Camden City (part) (1319) -- reel 13-15, Camden County, Camden City (part) (1320-1322) -- reel 16-17. Camden (part) (1323-1324) -- reel 18. Camden (part), Cape May (1325) -- reel 19. Cumberland (part) (1326) -- reel 20. Cumberland (part), Essex (part) (1327) -- reel 21-25. Essex (part) (1328-1332) -- reel 26-35. Essex County, Newark City (part (1333-1342) -- reel 336-37. Essex (part) (1343-1344) -- reel 38. Gloucester (part) (1345) -- reel 39. Gloucester (part), Hudson (part) (1346) -- reel 40-42. Hudson 9Part) (1347-1349) -- 43-49. Hudson County, Jersey City (part) (1350-1356) -- reel 50-53. Hudson (part) (1357-1360) -- reel 54. Hunterdon Mercer (part) (1361) -- reel 55-58. Mercer County, Trenton City (part) (1362-1365) -- reel 59-62. Middlesex (part) (1366-1369) -- reel 63-65. Monmouth (part) (1370-1372) -- reel 66-67. Morris (part) (1373-1374) -- reel 68. Ocean Passaic (part) (1375) -- reel 69-70. Passaic (part) (1376-1377) -- reel 71-74. Passaic County, Paterson City (1378-1381) -- reel 75. Passaic (part), Salem (part) (1382) -- reel 76. Salem (part), Somerset (part) (1383) -- reel 77. Somerset (partt), Sussex (1384) -- reel 78-80. Union County, Elizabeth City (part) (1385-1387) -- reel 81-83. Union (part) (1388-1390) -- reel 84. Warren (1391).
Alex: Microfilm 2847

The National Archives and Records Administration has an online Census Microfilm Locator for the 1930 census. The Locator allows you to determine exactly which microfilm reel you will need by searching Enumeration District (ED) descriptions by state, county, city, and place names, including names of towns, streets, post offices, rural townships, election precinct and ward numbers, and rivers and lakes, as well as residential institutions.

A growing number of federal census records have been transcribed and are available on the web:

State Census Records

The State of New Jersey also conducted a census in 1855, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, and 1915. There are no indexes to these census records.

New Jersey State census, 1855 [microform] Trenton : New Jersey Dept. of State, 1855.
3 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1. Atlantic, Bergen, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester -- reel 2. Hunterdon, Hudson, Monmouth, Morris -- reel 3. Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Warren.
ALEX : Microfilm 1855
Camden: Microfilm HA521.5 1855
NJ State census, 1865 [microform] Trenton : New Jersey Dept. of State 1962.
4 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1. Atlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden. -- Reel 2. Cumberland, Gloucester, Hudson, Hunterdon. -- Reel 3. Middlesex, Monmouth, Passaic. -- Reel 4. Salem, Union.
Alex: Microfilm 2683
New Jersey State census,1875. Hunterdon County. Trenton : New Jersey Dept. of State, 1989.
2 microfilm reels
Contents: reel 1. Alexandria Township-Raritan Touwnship -- reel 2. Raritan Township-West Amwell Township.
Alex: Microfilm 2684
New Jersey State census, 1885 [microform]. Trenton : New Jersey State Dept. of State], 1962.
45 microfilm
Contents: 1. Atlantic County -- 2. Bergen County -- 3-4. Burlington County -- 5-7. Camden County -- 8. Cape May County -- 9-10. Cumberland County -- 11-16. Essex County -- 17. Gloucester County -- 18-25. Hudson County -- 26. Hunterdon County -- 27-28. Mercer County -- 29-30. Middlesex County -- 31-32. Monmouth County -- 33-34. Morris County -- 35. Ocean County -- 36-38. Passaic County -- 39. Salem County -- 40. Somerset County -- 41. Sussex County -- 42-43. Union County -- 44. Warren County.
Alex: Microfilm 2685
Camden: Microfilm HA521.5 1885 (Reels 3-7 and 17).
New Jersey State census, 1895 [microform]. Trenton : New Jersey Dept. of State, 1962
54 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1. Atlantic. -- Reels 2-3. Bergen. -- Reels 4-5. Burlington. - - Reels 6-8. Camden. -- Reel 9. Cape May. -- Reels 10-11. Cumberland. -- Reels 12-21. Essex. -- Reel 22. Gloucester. -- Reels 23-33. Hudson. -- Reel 34. Hunterdon. -- Reels 35-37. Mercer. -- Reels 38-39. Middlesex. -- Reels 40-41. Monmouth. -- Reels 42-43. Morris. -- Reel 44. Ocean. -- Reels 45-48. Passaic. -- Reel 49. Salem. -- Reel 50. Somerset. -- Reel 51. Sussex. -- Reels 52-53. Union. -- Reel 54. Warren.
Alex: Microfilm 2686
Camden: Microfilm HA521.5 1895 (Reels 4-8 and 22).
New Jersey State census, 1905 [microform]. Trenton, N.J. : New Jersey Dept. of State, 1962
42 microfilm reels
Contents: 1. Atlantic County -- 2-3. Bergen County -- 4-5. Burlington County -- 6-7. Camden County -- 8. Cumberland County -- 9-16. Essex County -- 17. Gloucester County -- 18-26. Hudson County -- 27. Hunterdon County -- 28-29. Mercer County -- 30. Middlesex County -- 31-33. Monmouth County -- 33-34. Morris County -- 35-37. Passaic County -- 38. Salem County -- 39. Sussex County -- 40-41. Union County -- 42. Warren County.
Alex: Microfilm 2687
Camden: HA521.5 1905 (Reels 1, 4-7, and 17)
New Jersey State census, 1915 [microform]. Trenton : New Jersey Dept. of State, 1962
63 microfilm reels
Contents: 1-2. Atlantic County -- 3-7. Bergen County -- 8. Burlington County -- 9-11. Camden County -- 12. Cape May County -- 13. Cumberland County -- 14- 25. Essex County -- 26. Gloucester County -- 27-40. Hudson County -- 41. Hunterdon County -- 42-44. Mercer County -- 45-47. Middlesex County -- 48-49. Monmouth County -- 50-51. Morris County -- 52. Ocean County -- 53-57. Passaic County -- 58. Somerset County -- 59-62. Union County -- 63. Warren County.
Alex: Microfilm 2688
Camden: Microfilm HA521.5 (Reels 7-11 and 26)

New Jersey Cities*UPDATED*

City Directories (Guides and Collections)

In addition to the large compilations of New Jersey city directories that the Rutgers Libraries have available in microfilm/microfiche, there are some 800 directories in Special Collections and Archives.

Many of these directories have been cataloged and can be found by searching IRIS, the Rutgers' online catalog. At the IRIS search screen, enter the name of the city followed by the word "directories" as your search term and then select "WORDS anywhere" from the pulldown menu.

An unpublished finding aid to this collection is also available in the Special Collections department.

Brown, Michael P. Guide to New Jersey City Directories. Kendall Park, N.J., New Jersey Information Service, 1993.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F132.5.B76 1993.
Camden: Ref. F132.5.B76 1993.

Guide to City Directories of New Jersey in the Collections of the New Jersey State Library: Geographically Arranged. / Rebecca Bisbee Colesar / Trenton, N.J., New Jersey State Library, 1999. [PDF; Adobe Acrobat required]
Detailed index to print and microform New Jersey city directories available in the Genealogy Collection of the New Jersey State Library.

Directories Available in the Gloucester County Historical Society Library
Index to a large collection of city and county directories primarily for the southern part of the state.

The New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library has an extensive collection of New Jersey city directories. While directories for all parts of the state are included, the collection is particularly strong for Essex county municipalities.

City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901 : Guide to the Microfilm Collection. -- Woodbridge, CT : Research Publications, 1983, c1984.
Includes index to the contents of the two Research Publications microfilm sets (U.S. City Directories, 1861-1881 and U.S. City Directories, 1882-1901) below.
Alex: Ref. E154.7C57 1983
Camden: Ref. E154.7.C56 1983

City Directories (Compilations)

DistantCousin.com has a growing archive of searchable, freely-available New Jersey City Directories.

New Jersey City Directories [microform]. Bethlehem, PA : MAPS, MicrogrAphic Preservation Service, [1992]-
117 Microfilm Reels
Contents: Atlantic City, 1872-1982 (45 reels) -- Madison & Chatham, 1965-1971 (2 reels) -- Rahway, 1904-1981 (6 reels) -- Perth Amboy, 1908-1967 (including Rahway, 1919, 1921, 1926, 1947-48, 1949, 1952 on 12th reel) (12 reels) -- Millville, 1928-1987 (including Pitman, 1932, and Pitman-Glassboro, 1949) (6 reels) -- New Brunswick, 1855-1984 (26 reels) -- Morris County, 1873-1903 (1 reel) -- Ocean City, 1948; Wildwood, 1937-38, 1967; South Jersey coast, 1913 (1 reel) -- Bridgeton, 1930-1986 (5 reels) -- Vineland, 1946-1981 (8 reels) -- Cumberland County, 1872-1896 (including Hammonton, 1950-51; Delaware River & West Jersey RR, 1872; and New Jersey State, 1876-77) (4 reels) -- Barrington, 1950-51; Haddonfield, 1952-53, 1954-55, 1961 (1 reel).
Alex: Microfilm 2724

New Jersey City Directories, 1835-1860 [microform] Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., [198-?]
226 microfiche
Contents: New Jersey -- Camden -- Jersey City -- Newark -- New Brunswick -- Paterson -- Trenton.
Part of the City directories of the United States through 1860, a compilation based on Spear, Dorothea N. Bibliography of American directories through 1860, Worcester, Mass.: American Antiquarian Society, 1961. (Camden Ref. E154.5.S68 1978; Dana Ref. Z5771 .S7)
Alex: Microfiche 260

U.S. City Directories, 1861-1881 : New Jersey [microform] Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc, [1984?]
20 reels of microfilm
Contents: [pt.1.] Jersey City (7 reels) -- [pt. 2.] Newark (10 reels) -- [pt. 3.] Paterson (3 reels).
Alex: Microfilm 2413

U.S. City Directories, 1882-1901 : New Jersey [microform] Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, Inc., [1984?]
32 reels of microfilm
Contents: [pt. 1.] Jersey City (9 reels) -- [pt. 2.] Newark (17 reels) -- [pt. 3.] Paterson (6 reels)
Alex: Microfilm 2414

Southern New Jersey City and County directory microfilming project [microform]. Woodbury, N.J.] : Gloucester County Historical Society, 1988-
52 microfilm reels
Over 120 city and county directories (1875-1988) chiefly of Gloucester and Camden counties.
Alex: Microfilm 2733
Camden: F132.3.G5 (Microfilm reels 1-45)

City Directories (Individual Cities)

ASBURY PARK

1910 Residential Directory for Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, West Grove, Bradley Beach, Neptune City, Avon, Belmar, Allenhurst, Deal and Loch Arbor

CAMDEN

Camden City Directories & Telephone Books [microform] Camden, N.J. : Camden County Historical Society, [1991?]
50 microfilm reels
Covers the period 1837-1989.
Alex: Microfilm 2709
Camden: M-Film F144.C2C26

ELIZABETH

Elizabeth Directory. Newark, N.J., Price & Lee Co, 1909-
Directories from 1909 to 1971.

Elizabeth, New Jersey 1921 City Directory

NEW BRUNSWICK

Polk's New Brunswick (Middlesex County, N.J.) City Directory. Boston : R.L. Polk & Co., 1855-
Directories from 1855 until the latter part of the 20th century.
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F144.N5A18

NEWARK

Glenn Geisheimer maintains a list of collections holding specific Newark City Directories on his Old Newark site.

United States City Directories--Newark, N.J. [Segment IV: 1902-1935] [microform]. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, [198-]-1987.
26 microfilm reels
Alex: Microfilm 2667

Directory of Newark for 1835-6: With an Historical Sketch. Newark, 1836.
Name index, with links to the original scanned pages, to the first Newark city directory. Includes the historical sketch.

1840-41 City Directory for Newark, New Jersey

PATERSON

United States City Directories--Paterson, N.J. [Segments IV: 1902-1935] [microform]. Woodbridge, Conn. : Research Publications, [198-]-1987.
13 microfilm reels
Alex: Microfilm 2668

1859 City Directory for Paterson, New Jersey

PLAINFIELD

Directory of the city of Plainfield [microform] Plainfield, N.J. : Plainfield Public Library, 1989
30 microfilm reels
Contents: Reel 1. 1870; 1871; 1872; 1873; 1879-80; 1881-82 -- Reel 2. 1884-1885; 1885-1886; 1886-1887; 1887-1888 -- Reel 3. 1889-90; 1891-92; 1893-94; 1895-96 -- Reel 4. 1897-98; 1900; 1901 -- Reel. 5. 1902; 1903 -- Reel 6. 1904; 1905 -- Reel 7. 1907; 1908 -- Reel 8. 1909; 1910 -- Reel 9. 1911; 1912 -- Reel 10. 1913; 1914 -- Reel 11. 1915; 1916 -- Reel 12. 1917 -- Reel 13. 1918; 1919 -- Reel 14. 1920 -- Reel 15. 1921; 1922; 1924 -- Reel 16. 1925; 1926; 1943 -- Reel 17. 1927; 1928 -- Reel 18. 1929; 1930 -- Reel 19. 1931; 1933 -- Reel 20. 1935; 1938 -- Reel 21. 1940; 1944; 1947 -- Reel 22. 1949; 1950; 1953 -- Reel 23. 1951-52; 1955; 1962 -- Reel 24. 1957-58 -- Reel 25. 1956; 1960 -- Reel 26. 1963; 1964; 1966 -- Reel 27. 1968; 1978; 1982 -- Reel 28. 1969; 1971; 1972 -- Reel 29. 1973; 1974; 1975 -- Reel 30. 1967; 1976; 1977.
Alex: Microfilm 2786

Plainfield, NJ 1909 City Directory

TRENTON

City Directories, Trenton, NJ, 1845-1971 [microform] [Trenton, N.J.] : Trenton Free Public Library, 1989 Bethlehem, Pa. : Filmed by Mid-Atlantic Preservation Service)
48 microfilm reels
No directories included for 1846-1853, 1858, 1860-1864, 1866, 1937, 1939-1945, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1968, 1969. Reel 48 contains 43 maps from directories issued between 1881 and 1939.
Alex: Microfilm 2753

Fitzgerald's Trenton and Mercer County Directory : Together With a Business Directory of Bordentown, Burlington, Mount Holly and Lambertville, N.J. and Morrisville, Pa. Trenton, N.J. : Thomas F. Fitzgerald,
1887-1934 (with gaps).
Special Collections: SNCLNJ F133.5.T795F

Trenton City Directories
Directories from 1844 (business only), 1859, 1877(partial), 1881, 1882, 1900, and 1920.

1910 Trenton City Directory
Partial transcription.

Other Resources

CAMDEN

Federal Census, 1850, Camden, NJ

NEWARK

Pre-1790 Colonial Tax, Quit Rent, Oath of Allegiance & Census Index Records for selected CT & NJ counties
Indexes to (pre-federal) Newark census for 1670; 1779; 1780; 1781; 1782; 1783; and 1789.

Old Newark
Glen Geisheimer's treasure trove of information on Newark since its inception to the present. "Historical Menu" includes links to photographs (2000+), biographies, business histories, cemetaries, maps, newspaper lists, census information (including lists of orphanage residents), a street and ward index, and indexes to Newark births and marriages. The Your Newark Memories page has over 350 narratives of Newark in former times, while the Newark Immigrants section includes information on the history of Newark's German, Italian, Irish, and Jewish settlers. Searchable.

TRENTON

1880 Census, Trenton, Mercer County
3rd Ward, 1st District.
1880 Census, Trenton, Mercer County
3rd Ward, 2d District.

1920 Census, Trenton, Mercer County
Partial transcription. 3rd Ward, 54th and 55th Districts (Mill Hill).

New Jersey Genealogical Sites: Internet Directories

New Jersey GenWeb Project
Organized so as to provide a single entry point for all counties in New Jersey so that genealogical data about each county could be easily found.

ROOTS-L New Jersey

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: New Jersey

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Corrections?
Natalie Borisovets (natalieb@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
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October 28, 2001. Revised September 15, 2006.