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1 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LIBRARY RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY Compiled by Albert C. King and Janet T. Riemer C O N T E N T S UNPUBLISHED SOURCES Special Collections and University Archives (New Jersey Room) Genealogical Society of New Jersey... 1 New Jersey State Society, Daughters of the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 Microforms June 2018 Special Collections and University Archives Rutgers University Libraries

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3 UNPUBLISHED SOURCES I. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES (New Jersey Room) A. GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ( 1.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 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 # 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]" - 1 -

4 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 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

5 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 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 (#428). [Monmouth County] Marriage Records from 1812 to in 11 vols. (#243, 244, and ). Passaic County... Records of Marriages, (#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)

6 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, abstracts of wills through 1825 (#377). Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Cumberland County, N.J., abstracts in 2 vols. (# ). Copies of Wills... Gloucester County, New Jersey... full text from 1812 to 1819 (#163.12). Wills of Middlesex County, N.J., abstracts in 2 vols. (#368 and 368.1). New Jersey Wills : Morris County, abstracts (#340.2). C. 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 ( Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Rutgers College in New Brunswick, N.J., (request at New Jersey Room reference desk). Alumni and Students (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 ( 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]" - 4 -

7 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 , pp (X- REF Z6620.U5N or ALEX REF Z6620.U5N ). Resources (from 1986) also online at: 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) - 5 -

8 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.N5G ). 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.S ). New Jersey Tax Lists, (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.S ). Bergen County, New Jersey Taxpayers, (SNCLNJ F142.B4B ). Hunterdon County, New Jersey Taxpayers, (SNCLNJ F142.H9H ). 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 ( 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.G ). New Jersey 1850 Mortality (SNCLNJ HB1335.N ). 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" - 6 -

9 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, (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 ( 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.N ). Soundex for 1880 [partial index], 1900, 1920 (ALEX M/FILM , 2734). Federal Population Censuses, reel lists (X-REF Z7553.C3U ) 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 ). Call #: ALEX M/FILM , 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 ( at ten year intervals) Records: Microfilm divided by county and place; 1855, 1865, and 1875 incomplete. Finding Aid: None. Call #: ALEX M/FILM

10 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 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 Maryland County Records Kent County : Land Records and Probate Records Records: Microfilm; land records, (11 reels); administrators' accounts, (7 reels); wills books, (3 reels); and inventories, (4 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2706, Connecticut Town Records a. Danbury : Probate Packets Records: Microfilm; packets, , in alphabetical order (57 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2677 b. Danbury : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (5 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2634 c. Danbury : Deed Books Records: Microfilm; deeds, (9 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2635 d. Fairfield : Deed Books and Indexes Records: Microfilm; deeds, grantee and grantor indexes for (15 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM , 2633 e. Fairfield : Probate Packets Records: Microfilm; packets, , in alphabetical order (69 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM

11 f. Fairfield : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (8 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2430 g. Newtown : Deed Books Records: Microfilm; deeds, (12 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2632 h. Newtown : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (2 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2666 i. Norwalk : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (2 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2679 j. Stafford : Probate Packets Records: Microfilm; packets, , in alphabetical order; reels out of order set incomplete? (30 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2676 k. Stamford : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (6 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2674 l. Stratford : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (4 reels). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2638 m. Windham : Probate Registers Records: Microfilm; volumes for (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

12 Genealogical Research Guides and Dictionaries New Jersey : Research Outline (SNCLY2 CS69.N ). New Jersey : Digging for Ancestors in the Garden State (SNCLY2 Z5313.U6N5S5 1970). A Guide to Genealogical Resources in New Jersey (SNCLY2 CD3381.R ). The Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy (SNCLNJ CS49.S9 1997). The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy (SNCLNJ CS47.G ). Ancestry s Red Book : American State, County and Town Sources (SNCLNJ CS49.A ). Ethnic Genealogy : A Researcher's Guide (X-REF CS49.E ). Concise Genealogical Dictionary (X-REF CS6.H ). 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.S ). Genealogies in the Library of Congress : A Bibliography 2 vols. + supplements and related titles (X-REF Z5319.U53 and X-REF Z5319.U5L ). Genealogical and Local History Books in Print 3 vols. (SNCLNJ Z5313.U5G ). 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.D9B ). 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)

13 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.S or request at New Jersey Room reference desk). New Jersey Collective Biographical Sources bulk indexed by previous title (SNCLNJ F133.S ). 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, (X-REF Z6952.N54D57 or NJ Z6952.N54D57). History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, (X-REF Z6940.B855H). Geographical Aids Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey (SNCLNJ F132.G A). Pocket Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey... compiled 1887 (SNCLNJ F132.K54). A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey compiled 1894 (SNCLNJ F132.G ). New Jersey Local Names (SNCLY2 F132.N 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, (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.N5C 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)

14 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, (SNCLNJ HA217.T ). Historical Atlas and Chronology of County Boundaries, (SNCLNJ G1201.F7H 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, (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.P3J ). 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 ," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 65:1-8, (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.N5N ) + index (SNCLNJ CS.N532AO or NJ CS25.N5321 or NJ E263.N5N555). Records of Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars, (SNCLNJ CS25.N532R ). Index to Military Men of New Jersey, name index for previous two titles (SNCLNJ F138.A169). Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War, vols. (SNCLNJ E521.3.N54). The Roster of Union Soldiers, New Jersey and Delaware regiments (SNCLNJ UA342.R ). Revolutionary War Pensioners Living in New Jersey before 1834 (SNCLNJ F138.W ). Index to Revolutionary War Pension Applications (X-REF E206.N37)

15 Corrections to the Index of Revolutionary War Pension Applications (X-REF CS42.N43 no. 31). DAR Patriot Index 3 vols. (SNCLNJ E255.D ). 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, chiefly marriage bonds (SNCLNJ F133.N421). "New Jersey Marriage Licenses, (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.B4B a). 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, (SNCLNJ F142.H9D ). "Mercer County Marriages, ," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 48:9-19, (SNCLNJ CS1.G326N). "Middlesex County Clerk's Marriage Records, ," New Jersey Archives XXII: "Middlesex County Marriages...," Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, New Series, 9: , , ; 10:68-75, marriages from 1797 to 1824 (SNCLNJ F131.N532HP). "Monmouth County Marriage Records, ," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 56:49-57, etc., at intervals through 68: (SNCLNJ CS1.G326N). Marriages of Monmouth County, New Jersey, (SNCLNJ F142.M7G53). "Morris County Marriage Records," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 4:30-33, etc., at intervals through 9: :89 marriages from 1795 to 1835 (SNCLNJ CS1.G326N)

16 "Morris County Marriages," Morris Area Genealogy Society Newsletter, 1:4:6-8, etc. marriages for (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 ," Somerset County Historical Quarterly 1: , etc., at intervals through 8: (SNCLNJ F142.S6S6). Sussex County... Marriages from Justice-of-the-Peace Dockets, (SNCLY F142.S9M ). Sussex County, New Jersey, Marriages from 1795 to 1878 (SNCLNJ F142.S9C ). Warren County, New Jersey, Marriages, (SNCLNJ F142.W2M ). 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.G ). 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.K 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.N6W ). Church Archives in Cumberland County, New Jersey (SNCLNJ CD C85S ). Guide to Local Church Records in the Archives of the Reformed Church... records at New Brunswick Theological Seminary (SNCLY2 BV707.G ). Guide to the Records of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quaker records, including some for New Jersey meetings, at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges (SNCLNJ BX7607.P4S )

17 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.D4C ) Census of the Delaware (SNCLNJ F157.D4C ). 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., (SNCLNJ HA730.P2F5 1958). New Jersey, Bergen County [sic], Paterson City 1824, 25, 1827, 29, and 1832 Censuses (SNCLNJ HA38.N5J ). Census of Paterson, New Jersey, , 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.B ). Land Records Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, brief abstracts covering both East and West Jersey (SNCLNJ F133.P or NJ F133.P ). Colonial Conveyances : Provinces of East & West New Jersey, index in 2 vols. (SNCLNJ F137.C897) Bergen County, New Jersey, Deed Records, abstracts with index (SNCLNJ F142.B4B ). Burlington County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts : Books A, B and C ca (SNCLNJ F142.B9H8 2000) Middlesex County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts : Book 1 ca (SNCLNJ F142.M6H ). Monmouth County, New Jersey, Deeds : Books A, B, C and D (SNCLNJ F142.M7H ). Sussex County, New Jersey, Deed Abstracts ca in 5 vols. (SNCLNJ F142.S9S964)

18 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 vols.; entries grouped by county (SNCLNJ F133.A45). Index to New Jersey Wills, : 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.C9C b). Gloucester County Wills, vols. of abstracts (SNCLNJ F142.G5R ). "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 : 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.S ). 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, (SNCLNJ F142.B9P ). "Cemeteries of Cape May County," Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy, 8: ; 9:153 (SNCLNJ F142.C2C4). New Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locators : Mercer County (SNCLNJ F142.M5R ). New Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locators : Monmouth County (SNCLNJ F142.M7R ). New Jersey Graveyard and Gravestone Inscriptions Locators : Morris County (SNCLNJ F142.M8R ). Directories of Historical Organizations, Manuscript Repositories, and County Records Offices Guide to New Jersey Historical Societies (SNCLY2 Z6208.A7B ). 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.M ). The Complete Public Records Guide : Central and Northern New Jersey Region includes information about county records (and related floor plans) in 13 counties (SNCLNJ KFN P8K ). Genealogical Resources in Southern New Jersey (SNCLY Z1313.H )

19 Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area... (X-REF Z5313.U6N ). Directory of Archival and Manuscript Repositories in the Delaware Valley (X-REF CD3052.D ). Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (X-REF E172.A ). 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.N ) Guide to... Genealogical Resources in the Gardner Sage Library... (SNCLY2 BV707.G ). Guide to Family History Sources in the New Jersey State Archives (SNCLY2 F133.G ). Atlantic County Historical Society. Guide to the Library (SNCLY F142.A8A ). A Guide to the Archives of Hunterdon County (SNCLNJ F142.H9D ) A Guide to... the Monmouth County Historical Association Library (SNCLY F142.M7S ). 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.P ). National Archives Microfilm Publications in the National Archives Northeast Region (SNCLY2 CD3029.M54M ). Reference Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives (X-REF Z5315.U5U ). 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)

20 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, (ALEX REF E154.7.C ). Call #: ALEX M/FICHE 260 b. Jersey City, Paterson, and Newark ( ; inclusive) Records: Microfilm (91 reels). Excludes Jersey City directories for Finding Aid: City Directories of the United States, (ALEX REF E154.7.C ). Call #: ALEX M/FILM , c. Irvington ( Records: Microfilm (4 reels). Filmed for the Irvington Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2784 d. Morristown (1885/ ) Records: Microfilm (17 reels). Includes three Morris County directories from 1904/ /09 (reel 17). Filmed for the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2748 e. Madison and Chatham ( ) Records: Microfilm (2 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 14-15] f. Plainfield ( ) Records: Microfilm (30 reels). Filmed for the Plainfield Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2786 g. Rahway ( ) Records: Microfilm (5 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 30-34] h. Perth Amboy ( ) 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 ( ) Records: Microfilm (25 reels). Directories appear on the reels out of order. Filmed for the Asbury Park Public Library. Call #: ALEX M/FILM

21 j. Trenton ( ) 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 ( ) Records: Microfilm (50 reels). Includes Camden directories from 1850 to 1929 and Camden telephone books from 1925 to 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 Finding Aid: List of Directories on Microfilm... (SNCLY2 F132.5.C ). Also: "Directories and Telephone Books, [sic]" (available at New Jersey Room reference desk). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2709 l. Camden and Gloucester Counties and their Cities ( /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.C ). Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2733 m. Cumberland County and its Cities (1869/ ) Records: Microfilm (15 reels). Filmed for the Gloucester County Historical Society. Call #: ALEX M/FILM 2724 [reels 9-13, and 34-41]