New Jersey

For vital records, write to:

• Archives and History Bureau
  State Library Division
  State Department of Education
  185 W. State St., P.O. Box 307
  Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
  Telephone: (609) 292-6260

• They have birth, death, and marriage records from 1848-1878 and divorce records from 1743-1850. Also check the County where the event took place.

• State Department of Health
  Bureau of Vital Statistics
  South Warren and Market Street, P.O. Box 370
  Trenton, NJ 08625-0370
  Telephone: (609) 292-4087
  Fax: (609) 392-4292

  • They have post-1878 birth, marriage, and death records.

For information on State Archives & Libraries, write o:

• Department of State
  Division of Archives and Records Management
  Bureau of Archives and Records Preservation
  State Library Division
  State Department of Education
  185 W. State St., P.O. Box 307
  Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
  Telephone: (609) 530-6425

• They have vital records from 1848, church records, court records, colonial petitions and correspondences, state census records, military records, newspapers, tax records, cemetery records, probate records, maps, and federal census records from 1790-1910.

For information on state Genealogical Societies, write to:

• Genealogical Society of New Jersey
  P.O. Box 1291
  New Brunswick, NJ 08903

• Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00, Saturday (during the school year) 1:00-5:00, closed Sunday.

• They publish The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Newsletter.

• Genealogy Club of the Library of the New Jersey Historical Society
  230 Broadway
  Newark, NJ 07104

• Hours: Third Saturday of the month, September-May.

• They publish a Newsletter.

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