GENEALOGICAL RESOURCES IN

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND THE

ARCHIBALD S. ALEXANDER LIBRARY RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY

Compiled by Albert C. King and Janet T. Riemer

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C O N T E N T S UNPUBLISHED SOURCES Special Collections and University Archives (New Jersey Room) Genealogical Society of New Jersey .............................................................. 1 New Jersey State Society, Daughters of the American Revolution ................ 3 University Archives ........................................................................................ 4 Special Collections ........................................................................................ 4 Alexander Library Microforms ..................................................................................................... 7 SELECTED PRINTED SOURCES Special Collections and University Archives (New Jersey Room) Reference and Sinclair New Jersey Collections ............................................. 9 Alexander Library General Collection ......................................................................................... 17 Microforms ..................................................................................................... 18 ___________________________________________________________________________________

June 2018 Special Collections and University Archives

Rutgers University Libraries

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UNPUBLISHED SOURCES I. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (New Jersey Room) A. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY (http://www.gsnj.org) 1. Cemetery Records a. New Jersey Cemetery Records Records: Transcribed inscriptions from over 800 cemeteries. Finding Aid: Card index arranged by county and name of cemetery in drawer #1 of

cabinet #8 in genealogy area. Also computer inventory (revised 2011) on small table in genealogy area.

Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ Cemetery Records, [county name], [cemetery name]" b. Master File of New Jersey Gravestone Inscriptions Records: 16 file drawers of cards with transcribed inscriptions arranged alphabetically

by surname. Only selected cemeteries. Collection located in cabinets #8 and #9 in the genealogy area.

Finding Aid: Not needed. 2. Family Records a. Bible and Family Records Records: Over 5,670 original, photocopied, or transcribed records arranged and

numbered in accession order. Primarily pre-1850. Records #1 through #5999 have been photocopied and bound. The bound volumes have black covers and are located on the shelves along the wall to the left of the New Jersey Room reference desk. Access to records #6000+ by call slip.

Finding Aid: Card index arranged by head of family in drawers 1-3 of cabinet #10 in genealogy area. Also separate bound indexes, shelved with volumes, for all surnames in records #1-5999.

Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ, [record number from finding aid]" b. Emigrant Register Records: Data sheets on New Jersey residents who emigrated from the state in or

before the 19th century. Filed alphabetically by surname. Finding Aid: Not needed. Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ Emigrant Register, [surname]" c. Genealogical Society of New Jersey General Collection Records: Miscellaneous family notes, compilations, and correspondence regarding

primarily New Jersey families. Finding Aid: Card index arranged by surname. Also includes information arranged by

geographic location. Index located in cabinet #10, drawers 3 and 4 in genealogy area.

Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ Coll., [surname]; or GSNJ Geographic File, [location]"

http://www.gsnj.org/

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d. Helen P. Alleman / Patricia A. Weibezahl Collection Records: Materials on families in northwestern New Jersey. Note: There are two categories, notebooks and folders. Finding Aid: Folder on small table in genealogy area. Call slip: Enter "GSNJ, Alleman Collection, [information from finding aid]" e. Warren P. Coon Collection Records: 20,000 cards on families of Sussex and Warren Counties. Filed

alphabetically by surname. Primarily 19th century. Collection located in cabinet #2 in genealogy area.

Finding Aid: Not needed. f. John P. Dornan Collection Records: Materials on individual families (primarily southern New Jersey) and

incomplete abstracts of Quaker meeting records. Finding Aid: Card index arranged by surname or name of Quaker meeting. Index

located in drawer 4 of cabinet #10 in genealogy area. Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ, Dornan Collection, [surname, or meeting name]" g. D. Stanton Hammond Collection Records: Cards, arranged alphabetically by surname, with excerpts primarily from

19th century records: marriage and death notices from Paterson and other newspapers, Passaic County and justice of the peace marriage records, and selected area church and cemetery records. Also card index to Rev. Fisher's 1824-1832 censuses of Paterson. Collection located in cabinet #3 in genealogy area.

Finding Aid: Not needed. h. Esther Serviss Collection Records: Materials on central New Jersey (especially Middlesex County) families. Finding Aid: Folder on small table in genealogy area. Call slip: Enter "GSNJ, Serviss Collection, [information from finding aid]" i. Albert L. Stokes Collection Records: Correspondence on over 50 families, chiefly from Middlesex County area. Finding Aid: Folder on small table in genealogy area. Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ, Stokes Collection, [surname from finding aid]" j. Collections on Specific Families 1) BERRIEN—14 notebooks in 2 boxes. 2) BLOOMFIELD—research of Eleanor Bloomfield and of Rev. Clement Bloomfield—

separate finding aids on file cabinets in genealogy area. 3) DRAKE—in part cards in cabinet #10, drawers 5 and 6 in genealogy area; access

to remainder through finding aid on small table. 4) GULICK—24 notebooks; one is a name index. 5) LARUE/RUE & RUE/LARUE—research of Mary Middleton—finding aid on small

table. 6) MEAD-DEY—finding aid on small table in genealogy area.

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7) MEEKER—finding aid on index cards located in cabinet #10, drawer 7 in genealogy area. Note: There are two categories, notebooks and envelopes.

8) SELOVER—5 notebooks. 9) VAN DUYN—most in GSNJ General Collection [section I.A.2.c, page 1], the

balance on cards in drawer #4 of cabinet #3 in genealogy area. Call Slip: Enter "GSNJ, [collection name], [information from finding aid (if relevant)]" 3. Military Service Records Chester N. Jones Collection Records: 30,000 cards on New Jersey soldiers in the Revolution. Filed alphabetically

by surname. Collection located in cabinet #1 in genealogy area. Finding Aid: Not needed. B. NEW JERSEY STATE SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DAR State Library

Records: Over 600 bound volumes containing lineages, compiled genealogies, histories (e.g., of churches in a county), and transcribed source materials. The transcriptions consist primarily of Bible and family records, church records, civil marriage registrations, death notices copied from newspapers, deeds, war service records, miscellaneous documents (old letters and bonds), abstracts of wills from various counties, and tombstone inscriptions. The volumes, arranged in numerical order, are located on shelves adjacent to the windows in the genealogy area.

Finding Aids: Card indexes (by category of material) located in card catalog near the far left end of the New Jersey Room reference desk. Also: A Catalogue of . . . Genealogical Records . . . Contributed . . . to our State Library—lists vols. by DAR chapter and notes contents for each (SNCLY2 Z1313 .D238C 1968).

COUNTY MARRIAGE RECORDS included: Marriages . . . Burlington County . . .—from 1795 to 1819 in 2 vols. (#400 and 400.1). "Marriage Records," Genealogical Notes from Cape May County, p. 30-46—from

1795 to 1800 (#5). Marriage Records Contained in Book A, Essex County Court House—from 1795 to

1816 (#57 and 57A). "Marriage Records, Gloucester County, New Jersey . . . Not Included in Stanley

Craig's Gloucester County Marriages," Miscellaneous Genealogical Records . . ., p. 149-152 (#428).

[Monmouth County] Marriage Records—from 1812 to 1878+ in 11 vols. (#243, 244, and 244.1-244.9).

Passaic County . . . Records of Marriages, 1837-1891 (#251). Marriage Records . . . Sussex Co., New Jersey—from 1795 to 1853 in 3 vols. (#117,

118, and 118.1). Marriage Records of Warren Co., N.J.—from 1824 to 1878 in 2 vols. (#403.1 and

403.3).

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WILL ABSTRACTS included: Abstracts of Early Wills of Atlantic County, New Jersey, 1815 to 1837 (#303.7). [Bergen County] Abstracted Wills . . .—part of 1814 (#414.7). [Bergen County] Abstracted Wills . . .—from 1835 to 1864 (#414.6, 418.3, and

418.7). Bergen County, N.J., Will Abstracts—from 1864 to 1869 (#418.10). . . . Wills . . . Camden County, New Jersey . . . : Abstracts—from 1844 to 1859 (#29.1

and 29.2). Cape May Country [!] Wills : Will Book A, 1804-1863—abstracts of wills through 1825

(#377). Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Cumberland County, N.J., 1804-1855—abstracts in 2

vols. (#178.2-178.3). Copies of Wills . . . Gloucester County, New Jersey . . .—full text from 1812 to 1819

(#163.12). Wills of Middlesex County, N.J., 1804-1824—abstracts in 2 vols. (#368 and 368.1). New Jersey Wills : Morris County, 1817-1830—abstracts (#340.2). C. UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua/university-archives) Biographical Files Records: Biographical files on alumni (chiefly pre-1956), faculty, and trustees which

sometimes include additional family information and/or obituaries. Finding Aids: Inventory to the Rutgers University Biographical Files: Alumni

(http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/studentbiofiles1f.html). Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College in New Brunswick, N.J., 1766-

1916 (request at New Jersey Room reference desk). Alumni and Students . . . 1774-1932 (request at New Jersey Room reference desk). Call Slip: Enter "R-BIO, [full name, category of person, and class year (if relevant)]" D. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua) 1. Family Records a. RUL Family Records Collection Records: 9 boxes of records (originals and/or copies) arranged alphabetically by

surname. Finding Aid: Folder on small table in genealogy area. Call Slip: Enter "RUL Family Records, Box #, Folder #, [surname]" b. RUL Genealogical Collection Records: 11 boxes of records arranged alphabetically by surname. Finding Aid: Folder on small table in genealogy area. Call Slip: Enter "RUL Genealogical Collection, Box #, Folder #, [surname]"

https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua/university-archiveshttp://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/studentbiofiles1f.htmlhttps://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/scua

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c. Charles Carroll Gardner Collection Records: 1) Card file arranged alphabetically by surname. Notes on Essex, Union,

and Morris County families through the early 1800s. Collection located in cabinets #4-7 and in metal containers on top of cabinets #8-9 in genealogy area.

2) Bound volumes arranged alphabetically by surname. Notes on New Jersey families through the mid-1700s. Volumes have blue/green spines and are located on the shelves along the wall to the left of the New Jersey Room reference desk.

Note that the information in 1) and 2) differs. Finding Aid: Not needed. d. James A. Murray Collection Records: Materials on the Hart family and allied lines. Finding Aid: Inventory with manuscript finding aids (request at New Jersey Room

desk). Call Slip: Enter "Murray Collection, [information from finding aid]" e. John M. Shreve Collection Records: Materials on the Shreve and allied families Finding Aid: Inventory with manuscript finding aids (request at New Jersey Room

desk). Call Slip: Enter “John M. Shreve Collection, [information from finding aid]” f. J.W. Thornall Collection Records: Materials on the Thornall and allied families Finding Aid: Inventory with manuscript finding aids (request at New Jersey Room

desk). Call Slip: Enter “J.W. Thornall Collection, [information from finding aid]” g. Family and Personal Papers Records: Original papers or microfilm. Correspondence, diaries, account books,

deeds, etc. Papers are not primarily genealogical, but may contain genealogical data.

Finding Aids: the online catalog. (Search can be limited by material type to manuscripts.)

Manuscripts card catalog (incomplete; orange drawers in card catalog). Accession card catalog (main entry only; gray drawers in card catalog). National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections : Catalog 1986-87, pp. 14-136 (X-

REF Z6620 .U5N3 1986-87 or ALEX REF Z6620 .U5N3 1986-87). Resources (from 1986) also online at: http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

Guide to Manuscripts in the Rutgers University Library—acquisitions through 1961 (SNCLNJ Z6621 .R963 or request at New Jersey Room reference desk).

Call Slip: Information from finding aid (collection name, MC number or classified location [if neither, use accession number]; include box or volume number when relevant)

http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

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2. Church and Synagogue Records Records: Original documents, transcripts, or microfilm. Sometimes include membership

lists, church minutes and registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials. Finding Aids: Same as Family and Personal Papers or A Guide to Original and Copied

Records of Religious Organizations Largely New Jersey Churches in the Special Collections and University

Archives of Rutgers University (SNCLNJ Z7757.N5G85 1999). Call Slip: Information from finding aid (collection name, MC number or classified location

[if neither, use accession number]; include box or volume number when relevant] 3. Local Government Records Records: Original documents or microfilm. Sometimes include birth, marriage, and death

records, tax lists, overseers' of the poor records, and/or registers of earmarks and estrays. Selected New Jersey counties, cities and townships only: holdings are most extensive for Middlesex County (including slave manumissions) and for Piscataway and Woodbridge Townships. [Holdings on microfilm in Alexander Library: section II.A.2, page 8.]

Finding Aids: Same as Family and Personal Papers. Call Slip: Information from finding aid (collection name, MC number or classified location

[if neither, use accession number]; include box or volume number when relevant) 4. State Tax Records New Jersey Tax Ratables Records: Microfilm divided by county and place (24 reels). Finding Aids: Analysis of New Jersey Ratables on Microfilm (SNCLNJ HJ4245 .S79

1971). New Jersey Tax Lists, 1722-1822 (SNCLNJ F133 .N48 v.1-v. 6). Revolutionary Census of New Jersey : An Index, Based on Ratables, of the

Inhabitants of New Jersey during the Period of the American Revolution (SNCLNJ F133 .S77 1986).

Bergen County, New Jersey Taxpayers, 1777-1797 (SNCLNJ F142 .B4B45 1990).

Hunterdon County, New Jersey Taxpayers, 1778-1797 (SNCLNJ F142 .H9H86 1990).

Call Slip: Enter "D-59, year, name of locale" 5. Census Records [Additional census records: section II.A.1, page 7] U.S. Census for New Jersey : Mortality Schedules (1850-1880 at ten year intervals) Records: Microfilm (4 reels total) divided by county and place. Deaths which occurred

during the 12 months (June-May) preceding the making of the population schedules.

Finding Aids: New Jersey 1850 Mortality Schedule Index (SNCLNJ F133.G46 1982). New Jersey 1850 Mortality (SNCLNJ HB1335.N54 1988). Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey—includes published version for

1850 (beginning at vol. 54, p. 64), 1860 (beginning at vol. 66, p. 124), and 1870 (beginning at vol. 75, p. 1).

Call Slip: "D-100, year, county"

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6. Newspaper Extracts of Vital Statistics Elmer T. Hutchinson Collection Records: Card file, arranged alphabetically by surname, of New Brunswick newspaper

extracts of marriages and death notices, 1795-1865 (incomplete). Collection located in wooden card file on top of file cabinet #3 in genealogy area.

Finding Aid: Not needed. II. ALEXANDER LIBRARY A. MICROFORMS

1. New Jersey Census Records a. U.S. Census for New Jersey : Population Schedules (1830-1930 at ten year intervals) Records: Microfilm divided by county and place; 1890 lists surviving Civil War

veterans only. Finding Aids: Accelerated Index for 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870 [Mercer, Hudson,

and Passaic Counties only], 1890 (SNCLNJ F134 .A169). New Jersey 1870 Census Index—2 vols. (SNCLNJ F133 .N49 1998). Soundex for 1880 [partial index], 1900, 1920 (ALEX M/FILM 2703-2704,

2734). Federal Population Censuses, 1790-1890—reel lists (X-REF Z7553

.C3U54 1979). 1900 Federal Population Census—reel lists (request at New Jersey

Room desk). The 1910 Federal Population Census—reel lists (request at New Jersey

Room desk). The 1920 Federal Population Census—reel lists (request at New Jersey

Room desk). Lists of enumeration districts for 1900, 1910 (ALEX M/FILM 2700-2701).

Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2691-2699, 2718, 2847 b. U.S. Census for New Jersey: Mortality Schedules (1880) [Additional mortality

schedules: section I.D.5, page 6] Records: Microfilm divided by county and place. Deaths which occurred during the 12

months (June-May) preceding the making of the population schedules. Duplicate film of record (listed above) available through the New Jersey Room reference desk.

Finding Aid: None. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2787 (reels 3-5) c. State Census for New Jersey (1855-1915 at ten year intervals) Records: Microfilm divided by county and place; 1855, 1865, and 1875 incomplete. Finding Aid: None. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2682-2688

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2. New Jersey County Records Burlington and Middlesex Counties : Probate Records Records: Microfilm; wills, inventories, etc., 1680s-1820s (44 reels). Finding Aid: Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., in the office of the Secretary of State Prior

to 1901 (SNCLNJ F133 .A45). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2424-2425 3. New Jersey Military Records Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in

Organizations from the State of New Jersey Records: Microfilm; index entries in alphabetical order (26 reels). Finding Aid: None. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2771 4. Maryland County Records Kent County : Land Records and Probate Records Records: Microfilm; land records, 1761-1827 (11 reels); administrators' accounts, 1709-

1841 (7 reels); wills books, 1756-1827 (3 reels); and inventories, 1759-1814 (4 reels).

Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2706, 2730-2732 5. Connecticut Town Records a. Danbury : Probate Packets Records: Microfilm; packets, 1756-1880, in alphabetical order (57 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2677 b. Danbury : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1739-1814 (5 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2634 c. Danbury : Deed Books Records: Microfilm; deeds, 1777-1823 (9 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2635 d. Fairfield : Deed Books and Indexes Records: Microfilm; deeds, 1750-1823 + grantee and grantor indexes for 1677-1859 (15

reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2630-2631, 2633 e. Fairfield : Probate Packets Records: Microfilm; packets, 1648-1880, in alphabetical order (69 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2678

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f. Fairfield : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1761-1835 (8 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2430 g. Newtown : Deed Books Records: Microfilm; deeds, 1756-1827 (12 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2632 h. Newtown : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1810-1827 (2 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2666 i. Norwalk : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1802-1830 (2 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2679 j. Stafford : Probate Packets Records: Microfilm; packets, 1759-1880, in alphabetical order; reels out of order—set

incomplete? (30 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2676 k. Stamford : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1728-1824 (6 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2674 l. Stratford : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1782-1834 (4 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2638 m. Windham : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for 1755-1827 (10 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2423

SELECTED PRINTED SOURCES I. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (New Jersey Room) A. REFERENCE AND SINCLAIR NEW JERSEY COLLECTIONS

Reminder: Only that part of the Sinclair New Jersey Collection with "SNCLNJ" immediately before the call number is on open shelves in the reading room. No matter how valuable browsing the shelves can be in your research, always check the online catalog and/or the card catalog for topics of interest, as some relevant titles may be "folio" (SNCNJF), cataloged as a pamphlet (SNCLY, SNCLY2, SNCLY3, and SNCLY4) or in a rare book collection (such as SNCLX or X). Items in these categories must be requested with a call slip at the New Jersey Room reference desk.

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Genealogical Research Guides and Dictionaries New Jersey : Research Outline (SNCLY2 CS69 .N53 1991). New Jersey : Digging for Ancestors in the Garden State (SNCLY2 Z5313 .U6N5S5

1970). A Guide to Genealogical Resources in New Jersey (SNCLY2 CD3381 .R82 1985). The Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy (SNCLNJ CS49 .S9 1997). The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy (SNCLNJ CS47 .G73 1990). Ancestry’s Red Book : American State, County and Town Sources (SNCLNJ CS49 .A55

1989). Ethnic Genealogy : A Researcher's Guide (X-REF CS49 .E83 1983). Concise Genealogical Dictionary (X-REF CS6 .H37 1989). Compiled Genealogies PUBLISHED GENEALOGIES appear in the online catalog and/or the card catalog under the

subject headings "[family name]—Genealogy" or "[personal name]—Family". (Genealogies are usually in CS71.)

New Jersey Family Index : A Guide to the Genealogical Sketches in New Jersey

Collective Sources (SNCLNJ F133 .S551 1993). Genealogies in the Library of Congress : A Bibliography—2 vols. + supplements and

related titles (X-REF Z5319 .U53 and X-REF Z5319 .U5L53 1991). Genealogical and Local History Books in Print—3 vols. (SNCLNJ Z5313 .U5G45 1985). Genealogical Magazines and Indexes Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey + name and subject indexes (SNCLNJ CS1

.G326N). Genealogical Society of New Jersey. GSNJ Newsletter (SNCLNJ F131 .G4). Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society + indexes—some genealogical content

through 1940s (SNCLNJ F131 .N532HC). Genealogy Club of the Library of the New Jersey Historical Society. Newsletter

(SNCLNJ CS1 .G45). New Jersey Genesis + name index (SNCLNJ F131 .N530) + subject index (SNCLY2

F131 .N530 Index). New Jersey Queries (SNCLNJ CS42 .N482). Quaker Queries (SNCLNJ CS42 .Q34). Directory of Genealogical and Historical Articles Published in "de Halve Maen" from

1923 to 1991 (SNCLY2 F130 .D9B76 1992). Index to the Publications of the Holland Society of New York (SNCLNJ F116 .H77). The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Master Index (SNCLNJ F116 .N82

Suppl.). DAR Magazine (request at New Jersey Room reference desk) + index (on top of DAR

card indexes at left end of New Jersey Room reference desk).

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ADDITIONAL MAGAZINE TITLES appear in the online catalog and/or the card catalog under the subject headings "Genealogy—Periodicals" or "Genealogy—[name of state or country]—Periodicals". Indexes to the genealogical periodical literature appear under the same headings followed by the additional subdivision "—Indexes".

Biographical Sources A New Jersey Biographical Index—collective sources (SNCLNJ F133.S56 1993 or

request at New Jersey Room reference desk). New Jersey Collective Biographical Sources—bulk indexed by previous title (SNCLNJ

F133 .S565 1995). New Jersey Biography and Genealogy—includes separately published items (SNCLNJ

Z1313 .N432N). County and Local Histories PUBLISHED HISTORIES appear in the online catalog and/or the card catalog under the

subject heading "[place name]—History". Local history newsletters and magazines appear under the same heading followed by the additional subdivision "—Periodicals". (Books on New Jersey county history are primarily in F142, while most books on New Jersey municipal history are in F144.)

New Jersey County History : A Selected Bibliography (SNCLY2 Z13113 .N6 1979). Newspaper Bibliographies Directory of New Jersey Newspapers, 1765-1970 (X-REF Z6952 .N54D57 or NJ Z6952

.N54D57). History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 (X-REF Z6940 .B855H). Geographical Aids Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey (SNCLNJ F132 .G66 1834A). Pocket Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey . . .—compiled 1887 (SNCLNJ F132 .K54). A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey—compiled 1894 (SNCLNJ F132 .G198 1978). New Jersey Local Names (SNCLY2 F132 .N482 1992 or request at New Jersey Room

reference desk). Land and People : A Cultural Geography of Preindustrial New Jersey : Origins and

Settlement Patterns (SNCLNJ F137 .W3). The Mapping of New Jersey (SNCLNJ GA439 .S64). The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries, 1606-1968 (SNCLNJ F142 .B7S6). Worksheets : New Jersey in Printed Maps to 1800 (SNCLNJ Z6027 .N5K4W). A Bibliography and Index of Atlases and Maps of New Jersey, 1800 to 1949 (SNCLNJ

Z6027 .N5G74). Guide to New Jersey Maps in Special Collections and Archives, Rutgers University

Libraries (SNCLNJ GA195 .N5C37 1986 or request at New Jersey Room reference desk) + supplement: "Conserved Maps (Flat and Hanging) Not Listed in Guide to New Jersey Maps in Special Collections . . ."—includes 19th century county and local maps which name property owners (request at New Jersey Room reference desk).

Hunterdon Co., New Jersey—map [on 8 sheets] of earliest landholders (MP 3814/H80/022/1978AA).

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Full Name and Geographic Index to the . . . Hunterdon Co., NJ, Land Owner Maps (SNCLNJ G3813 .H8H35).

MOST NEW JERSEY COUNTY ATLASES from the 19th century (which name property

owners) are stored behind the genealogy file cabinets in the map area. Atlases of New Jersey cities—listed in an unpublished finding aid available at the reference desk—are stored in closed stacks (request by call slip at New Jersey Room reference desk).

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 (SNCLNJ HA217 .T46 1987). Historical Atlas and Chronology of County Boundaries, 1788-1980 (SNCLNJ G1201

.F7H47 1984 v. 1). Immigration Lists and Indexes Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684—Delaware River Valley (SNCLNJ F148 .W45). Ship Passenger Lists : New York and New Jersey, 1600-1825 (SNCLNJ CS68 .S53 v.3). Immigrants to the Middle Colonies (SNCLNJ F106 .I47). The Palatine Families of New York—2 vols.; includes some New Jersey settlers

(SNCLNJ CS59 .P3J66 1985). Also More Palatine Families (SNCLNJ E184 .P3J66) and Even More Palatine Families (SNCLNJ E184 .P3J55).

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index—3 vols. + annual supplements (SNCLNJ CS68 .F537).

ADDITIONAL IMMIGRATION LISTS AND INDEXES appear in the online catalog and/or the card

catalog under the subject headings "Immigrants—[country name]—Registers" and "Ships—[country name]—Passenger Lists". (Some lists are in E184.)

Naturalization Records Guide to Naturalization Records in New Jersey (SNCLNJ JK1822 .N5H6 1941). "Naturalizations . . . 1747-1775," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 65:1-8, 59-66

(SNCLNJ CS1 .G326N). Military Service and Pension Records Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War

(SNCLNJ CS25 .N532AO or NJ E263 .N5N55 1993) + index (SNCLNJ CS .N532AO or NJ CS25 .N5321 or NJ E263 .N5N555).

Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars, 1791-1815 (SNCLNJ CS25 .N532R 1791-1815).

Index to Military Men of New Jersey, 1775-1815—name index for previous two titles (SNCLNJ F138 .A169).

Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865—2 vols. (SNCLNJ E521.3 .N54).

The Roster of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865—New Jersey and Delaware regiments (SNCLNJ UA342 .R67 1998).

Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in New Jersey before 1834 (SNCLNJ F138 .W34 1983).

Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications (X-REF E206 .N37).

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Corrections to the Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications (X-REF CS42 .N43 no. 31).

DAR Patriot Index—3 vols. (SNCLNJ E255 .D38 1994). Lineage Book[s] : National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution—166

vols. + name indexes for Revolutionary War soldiers (on shelves along wall to the left of the New Jersey Room reference desk).

Marriage Records New Jersey Marriage Records, 1665-1800—chiefly marriage bonds (SNCLNJ F133

.N421). "New Jersey Marriage Licenses, 1727-34 (with additions to 1751)," Genealogical

Magazine of New Jersey 14:73-81, etc., at intervals through 23:21-23 (SNCLNJ CS1 .G326N).

South Jersey Marriages—supplementary Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem County marriages (SNCLNJ F133 .C8865).

Atlantic County, New Jersey, Marriage Records—from 1836 to 1886 (SNCLNJ F142 .A8C8 1979).

Bergen County, New Jersey, Marriage Records—from 1795 to 1878 (SNCLNJ F142 .B4B28 1929a).

Burlington County, New Jersey, Marriages—from 1680s to 1930 (SNCLNJ F142 .B9C8 1977).

Camden County, New Jersey, Marriages—from 1844 to 1909 (SNCLNJ F142 .C16C8 1980).

Cape May County (New Jersey) Marriage Records—from 1690s to 1878 (SNCLNJ F142 .C2C8 1978).

Cumberland County (New Jersey) Marriages—from 1740s to 1877 and later (SNCLNJ F142 .C9C8 1987).

"Essex County Marriage Records," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 9:4-11, etc., at intervals through 12:87-90—marriages from 1795 to 1817 (SNCLNJ CS1 .G326N).

Gloucester County, New Jersey, Marriage Records—from 1680s to 1878 (SNCLNJ F142 .G5C9 1976).

Marriage Records of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1795-1875 (SNCLNJ F142 .H9D42 1986).

"Mercer County Marriages, 1838-1848," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 48:9-19, 60-67 (SNCLNJ CS1 .G326N).

"Middlesex County Clerk's Marriage Records, 1795-1800," New Jersey Archives XXII:629-642.

"Middlesex County Marriages . . .," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Series, 9:160-167, 281-288, 388-394; 10:68-75, 201-207—marriages from 1797 to 1824 (SNCLNJ F131 .N532HP).

"Monmouth County Marriage Records, 1795-1843," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 56:49-57, etc., at intervals through 68:105-112 (SNCLNJ CS1 .G326N).

Marriages of Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1795-1843 (SNCLNJ F142 .M7G53). "Morris County Marriage Records," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 4:30-33, etc.,

at intervals through 9:130-132 + 58:89—marriages from 1795 to 1835 (SNCLNJ CS1 .G326N).

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"Morris County Marriages," Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter, 1:4:6-8, etc.—marriages for 1833+ (SNCLNJ F142 .M8M65).

Ocean County Marriages—from before 1850 through 1940s (SNCLNJ HA38 .N5G73). Salem County (New Jersey) Marriage Records—from 1720s to 1878 (SNCLNJ F142

.S2C8M 1977). "Somerset County Marriages—1795-1879," Somerset County Historical Quarterly 1:128-

133, etc., at intervals through 8:283-317 (SNCLNJ F142 .S6S6). Sussex County . . . Marriages from Justice-of-the-Peace Dockets, 1773-1828 (SNCLY

F142 .S9M44 1999). Sussex County, New Jersey, Marriages—from 1795 to 1878 (SNCLNJ F142 .S9C28

1992). Warren County, New Jersey, Marriages, 1824-1855 (SNCLNJ F142 .W2M44 1998). ADDITIONAL MARRIAGE RECORDS for some New Jersey counties available in DAR state

library [section I.B, page 3]. Family Bible Records Bible Records . . .—from Gloucester County Historical Society collection (SNCLY F142

.G5G5B 1964). Bible Records from the Monmouth County Historical Association Library—5 vols.

(SNCLNJ HA38 .N5M44). Genealogies of New Jersey Families from the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey—2

vols.; includes family Bible records (SNCLNJ F133 .G45 1996). An Index to Some of the Bibles and Family Records of the United States—indexes DAR

transcriptions on microfilm at the Genealogical Society of Utah (SNCLNJ C547 .K57 1984 v.2).

Church Records and Histories HISTORIES AND RECORDS OF INDIVIDUAL CHURCHES appear in the online catalog and/or

the card catalog under congregation name (in the online catalog, truncate immediately after the name) and, sometimes, under "[local place name]—Churches" or "[local place name]. [name of congregation]". Another relevant heading is "Church records and registers—[state name]—[county or local place name]".

"State of New Jersey," A Survey of American Church Records (request this photocopy at

New Jersey Room reference desk). Guide to Northern New Jersey Catholic Parish and Institutional Records (SNCLNJ

BX1415 .N6W67 1984). Church Archives in Cumberland County, New Jersey (SNCLNJ CD 3388.6 .C85S83

1982). Guide to Local Church Records in the Archives of the Reformed Church . . .—records at

New Brunswick Theological Seminary (SNCLY2 BV707 .G37 1979). Guide to the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting—Quaker records, including some

for New Jersey meetings, at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges (SNCLNJ BX7607 .P4S62 1989).

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Censuses and Census Indexes PUBLISHED CENSUS INDEXES FOR NEW JERSEY are listed as finding aids for the microfilm

[section II.A.1.a, page 7]. The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware (SNCLNJ F157 .D4C73 1993). 1671 Census of the Delaware (SNCLNJ F157.D4C725 1999). New Jersey in 1793 : An Abstract and Index to the 1793 Militia Census of the State of

New Jersey (SNCLNJ UA342 .N6). New Jersey 1800 Cumberland County Census Index (SNCLNJ F142 .C9J32). Rev. Samuel Fisher's Census, Paterson, N.J., 1824-1832 (SNCLNJ HA730 .P2F5 1958). New Jersey, Bergen County [sic], Paterson City 1824, 25, 1827, 29, and 1832 Censuses

(SNCLNJ HA38 .N5J32 1981). Census of Paterson, New Jersey, 1827-1832, by the Rev. Samuel Fisher . . . (SNCLX

F144 .P297F5). The United States Census Conpendium [sic] (SNCLNJ Z1250.S83). City and County Directories NEW JERSEY CITY DIRECTORIES held number approximately 800 volumes and are

especially complete for New Brunswick (1855+) and Newark (1835+). County directories are filed by call number on the open shelves. City directories are stored in closed stacks. These volumes must be requested by call slip at the New Jersey Room reference desk, where an unpublished finding aid to the directory collection is also available. [Microform holdings of city and county directories: section II.B.1, page 18.]

Guide to New Jersey City Directories—notes nearby towns included with cities (SNCLNJ

F132.5 .B76 1993). Land Records Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, 1664-1703—brief abstracts

covering both East and West Jersey (SNCLNJ F133 .P37 1976 or NJ F133 .P37 2000).

Colonial Conveyances : Provinces of East & West New Jersey, 1664-1794—index in 2 vols. (SNCLNJ F137 .C897)

Bergen County, New Jersey, Deed Records, 1689-1801—abstracts with index (SNCLNJ F142 .B4B49 1995).

Burlington County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts : Books A, B and C—ca. 1782-1795 (SNCLNJ F142 .B9H8 2000)

Middlesex County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts : Book 1—ca. 1785-1789 (SNCLNJ F142 .M6H88 2000).

Monmouth County, New Jersey, Deeds : Books A, B, C and D (SNCLNJ F142 .M7H88 2000).

Sussex County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts—ca. 1785-1803 in 5 vols. (SNCLNJ F142 .S9S964).

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Tax Records PUBLISHED TAX LISTS FOR NEW JERSEY are listed as finding aids for the microfilm [section

I.D.4, page 6]. Probate Records New Jersey Archives—includes abstracts of wills to 1817 in 1st series, vols. XXIII, XXX,

and XXXII-XLII (SNCLNJ F131 .N532A). Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., in the office of the Secretary of State Prior to 1901—3

vols.; entries grouped by county (SNCLNJ F133 .A45). Index to New Jersey Wills, 1689-1890 : The Testators—all names in one alphabet

(SNCLNJ F133 .S63). Genealogical Data from Cumberland County, New Jersey, Wills—brief abstracts for

1748 to 1861 (SNCLNJ F142 .C9C88 1981b). Gloucester County Wills, 1818-1846—2 vols. of abstracts (SNCLNJ F142 .G5R64 1988). "Will Book A," Mercer County Genealogical Quarterly 1:2-6, 30-36, 49-60; 2:27-37, 61-

68; 3:61-70; 4:36-40, 55-60, 61-70; 5:1-3—abstracts for 1838 to 1848 (SNCLNJ F142 .M5M43).

Salem County Wills : 1804-1860—2 vols. of abstracts (SNCLNJ F142 .S2C72). ADDITIONAL WILL ABSTRACTS for some New Jersey counties available in DAR state

library [section I.B, page 3]. Cemetery Guides Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey : A Guide—selected cemeteries (SNCLNJ F132 .S27

1994). Cemetery Companies issued a Certificate of Authority—active cemeteries (SNCLY2

RA624 .A5N5 1990). Bergen County Historic Sites Survey : Cemetery Inventory (SNCLY2 F142 .B4B49). History of Cemeteries in Burlington County, New Jersey, 1687-1975 (SNCLNJ F142

.B9P44 1976). "Cemeteries of Cape May County," Cape May County Magazine of History and

Genealogy, 8:358-360; 9:153 (SNCLNJ F142 .C2C4). New Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locators : Mercer County (SNCLNJ

F142 .M5R37 2000). New Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locators : Monmouth County

(SNCLNJ F142 .M7R37 2000). New Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locators : Morris County (SNCLNJ

F142 .M8R37 1994). Directories of Historical Organizations, Manuscript Repositories, and County Records

Offices Guide to New Jersey Historical Societies (SNCLY2 Z6208 .A7B87 1994). League of Historical Societies of New Jersey. Membership Directory (SNCLNJ F131

.L44). New Jersey Historical Manuscripts : A Guide to Collections in the State (SNCLNJ F134

.M97 1987). The Complete Public Records Guide : Central and Northern New Jersey Region—

includes information about county records (and related floor plans) in 13 counties (SNCLNJ KFN2262.5 .P8K67 1993).

Genealogical Resources in Southern New Jersey (SNCLY Z1313 .H63 1999).

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Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area . . . (X-REF Z5313 .U6N523 1989).

Directory of Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the Delaware Valley (X-REF CD3052 .D54 1991).

Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (X-REF E172 .A53 2002).

Guides to Other Genealogical Collections Genealogical-Index to . . . the New Jersey Historical Society Library (SNCLY Z5313

.U6N5N 1923) + supplement (SNCLY Z5313 .U6N5N 1929). A Guide to Family History and Genealogical Resources in the New Jersey Historical

Society Library (SNCLY2 F133.5 .N5 1982). Guide to the Genealogy Chart Collection in the New Jersey Historical Society (SNCLY2

Z1313 .N55 1985) Guide to . . . Genealogical Resources in the Gardner Sage Library. . . (SNCLY2 BV707

.G37 1979). Guide to Family History Sources in the New Jersey State Archives (SNCLY2 F133 .G84

1994). Atlantic County Historical Society. Guide to the Library (SNCLY F142 .A8A88 1986). A Guide to the Archives of Hunterdon County (SNCLNJ F142 .H9D384 1993) A Guide to . . . the Monmouth County Historical Association Library (SNCLY F142

.M7S43 1992). A Guide to Genealogical . . . Sources for the Morristown, N.J. Area (SNCLY2 Z1314

.M883A 1973). Historical and Genealogical Catalogue . . . Salem County Historical Society (SNCLY

Z1314 .S2S2H). Pennsylvania and Middle Atlantic States Genealogical Manuscripts : A User's Guide to

the Manuscript Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania . . . (SNCLY F148

.P36 1986). National Archives Microfilm Publications in the National Archives—Northeast Region

(SNCLY2 CD3029 .M54M63 1990). Reference Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives (X-REF Z5315

.U5U54 1982). II. ALEXANDER LIBRARY A. GENERAL COLLECTION BOOKS DEALING WITH GENEALOGY appear in the online catalog under the subject

headings "[family name]", "[place name]", or "[category of persons or ethnic group]" subdivided by "—Genealogy". Others are under "[personal name]—Family" or under "Genealogy" subdivided by "—Bibliography" or by "—Handbooks, manuals, etc." These books are generally located in CS on floor 2A. Periodicals (including Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and New York Genealogical and Biographical Record) are in CS1; genealogies are in CS39 or CS71 (one family) and CS38 (collective).

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B. MICROFORMS 1. City Directories [Microfiche and microfilm only; paper copies: section I.A, page 1] a. New Jersey : City, County, and State (Pre-1861; inclusive) Records: Microfiche of city, county, and statewide directories. Finding Aid: City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901 (ALEX REF E154.7 .C57

1983). Call #: ALEX M/FICHE 260 b. Jersey City, Paterson, and Newark (1861-1935; inclusive) Records: Microfilm (91 reels). Excludes Jersey City directories for 1902-1935. Finding Aid: City Directories of the United States, 1860-1901 (ALEX REF E154.7 .C57

1983). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2413-2414, 2667-2668 c. Irvington (1946-1967 Records: Microfilm (4 reels). Filmed for the Irvington Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2784 d. Morristown (1885/86-1982) Records: Microfilm (17 reels). Includes three Morris County directories from 1904/05-

1908/09 (reel 17). Filmed for the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township.

Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2748 e. Madison and Chatham (1965-1971) Records: Microfilm (2 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 14-15] f. Plainfield (1870-1982) Records: Microfilm (30 reels). Filmed for the Plainfield Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2786 g. Rahway (1919-1981) Records: Microfilm (5 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 30-34] h. Perth Amboy (1908-1967) Records: Microfilm (12 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 19-30] i. Monmouth County and its Cities (1883-1970) Records: Microfilm (25 reels). Directories appear on the reels out of order. Filmed for

the Asbury Park Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2637

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j. Trenton (1845-1971) Records: Microfilm (48 reels). Earliest directories reproduced from a newspaper.

Filmed for the Trenton Free Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2753 k. Camden City (1839-1978) Records: Microfilm (50 reels). Includes Camden directories from 1850 to 1929 and

Camden telephone books from 1925 to 1978. The Camden portion of Philadelphia directories from 1839 to 1855(?) is also reproduced, as are a small number of other southern New Jersey directories (on reels 49 and 50). Filmed for the Camden County Historical Society in 1988.

Finding Aid: List of Directories on Microfilm . . . (SNCLY2 F132.5.C74 1993). Also: "Directories and Telephone Books, 1837-1889 [sic]" (available at New Jersey Room reference desk).

Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2709 l. Camden and Gloucester Counties and their Cities (1856-1988/89) Records: Microfilm (52 reels). Also includes some telephone directories, plus a few

directories from Ocean County (on reel 45) and Burlington Co. (on reel 47). Filmed for the Gloucester

County Historical Society. Finding Aid: List of Directories on Microfilm . . . (SNCLY2 F132.5.C74 1993). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2733 m. Cumberland County and its Cities (1869/70-1987) Records: Microfilm (15 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 9-13, 16-18 and 34-41]

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