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There are many resources available in our collection to assist you in your research, topics represented in the collection include: Beginner’s Genealogy, Bibliographies, Census Records, Vital Records, Family Records, Legal Records, Maps and Gazetteers, Biographical Directories, Church Records, Historical Societies, Military Records and Immigration. This guide, while not a comprehensive inventory of the Local History & Genealogy Collection, will serve as a useful tool for utilizing the print collection.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

016.071 DIR         Directory of New Jersey Newspapers, 1765-1970. Wright, William C.and Stellhorn, Paul A.

016.92 SIN            New Jersey family Index. Sinclair,Donald Arleigh

016.929 BRI          An Index to Printed Pedigrees Contained in County and Local Histories. Bridger, Charles.

016.929 JAC         Index to Genealogical Periodicals: Together With "my own index". Jacobus,  Donald Lines

016.929 PET         Consolidated Bibliography of County Histories in Fifty States in 1961.  Peterson, Clarence

                                Stewart

016.929 PET         Bibliography of County Histories.  Peterson, C.S. 

016.9291 FIL         American & British Genealogy & Heraldry: a Selected List of Books. Filby, William

016.9749 BUR      A Narrative and Selective Bibliography of New Jersey.  Burr, Nelson R. 

016.9749 GUI        Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society. Morris, Robert C.

016.9749 GRI        New Jersey Historical Society Manuscript Collection. 

016.9749 NEW      New Jersey Historical Manuscripts. 

277.49 RUT           A Guide to Original and Copied Records of Religious Organizations. Sinclair, Donald Arleigh.

929.1 GEN             Genealogical and Local History Books in Print. Family History Volume.

929.1 LAN              A Bibliography of Ship Passenger Lists.  1538-1825.  NYPL.  

BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORIES

920 RAI               Biographical Directory of American Colonial and Revolutionary Governors.1607-1789. Raimo, John W. 

920 WHO            Who was Who in America.  Historical Volume.  1607-1896. 

929.2 RIK           Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons in New Netherlands.4 vol. Riker, David M. 

929.3749 SIN     New Jersey Biographical Index. Sinclair, Donald. 

CENSUS RECORDS

310 STA              New Jersey Compendium of Censuses, 1726-1905. 

317 GRE             American Population Before the Federal Census of 1790.  Greene & Harrington. 

312.0973 THO   Map guide to the U.S. federal censuses, 1790-1920. Thorndale, William         

317.49 STR        Revolutionary Census of New Jersey. Stryker-Rodda, Kenn.

929.01 FED        Federal Population Censuses., 1790-1890.  A Catalog of Microfilm Copies of the Schedules. 
929.3 UNI            Heads of Family 1790 Census. (U.S.) 2 vol.

929.3746             1790 Connecticut Census.  

929.3749 ARM   1800 Census of New York.

929.37491890    Census of New York. 

929.3749 JAC    1830 New Jersey Census. 

929.3749 JAC    1840 New Jersey Census Index. 

929.3749 JAC    1850 New Jersey Census Index. 

CHURCH RECORDS

016.9293 BLO      National Index of Parish Register Copies (England).  Bloomfield & Percy- Smith

016.9293 CAT       Catalogue of the parish registers in the possession of the Society of Genealogists.

277.499408           Church Archives in Cumberland County, New Jersey Church Archives. Straney, Shirley Garton. 

285.132 MCK        Commemorative history of the Presbyterian church in Westfield, New Jersey, 1728-1928.

                                 McKinney,  Phillhower

285.132 MCK        Westfield Presbyterian Church History and Records, 1728-1928. McKinney, Phillhower.

285.1749 REG      Registers, Minutes and History of the First Presbyterian Church. Morristown, New Jersey, 1742-1885. 

287.5 NEL             History of the Old Dutch Church at Totowa, Paterson, New Jersey, 1755-1827: Baptismal Register, 

                                1756

                                1808. Nelson,William.

929.01 JAC           Inventory of Church Records of the British Isles.  Jackson, Teeples & Schaefermeyer. 

  929.3 ACK             Inscriptions from tombstones in graveyard of the Protestant Reformed Dutch  Church at 

                                  Acquackanonk

929.3 REG            Register of the French Church of New York, 1688-1804.

929.3415 MIT       A Guide to Irish Parish Registers.  Mitchell, Brian.

929.37 ACK         Hackensack  Reformed Church Records, 1801-1886. Ackerman, Herbert S. 

929.37 PUR         Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York, 1639-1801.

929.373 KIR         A Survey of American Church Records. Kirkham, E. Kay

929.374 PAR       Paramus Reformed Church Records, 1799-1900. 

929.374 SCH       Schraalenburgh (South Church) (Bergenfield, N.J.) Reformed Dutch Church Records, 1724-1800. 

929.7 REC            Records of the Reformed Dutch Church. Baptism, 1639-1730

929.7 REC            Records of the Reformed Dutch Church. Baptism, 1731-1800.

929.3 SHA            Madison, New Jersey Presbyterian Church, vital records, 1747-1900. Shaw,  Viola and Parker, 

                               Barbara.

DIRECTORIES

929.2 RIK V.I-IV        Genealogical and biographical directory to persons in New Netherland, from1613 to 1674. David

                                     Riker.                    

974.93 CON 2003     Essex County-Suburban Edition Street Directory and City Guide

974.93 CON 2004     Essex County-Suburban Edition Street Directory and City Guide

974.93 CON 2005     Essex County-Suburban Edition Street Directory and City Guide

GENERAL Local History WORKS

133.1 ADA             Cape May Ghost Stories, Book 2. Adams III, Charles J.

209.749 JAM         Religion in New Jersey: A Brief History. Jamison, Wallace N.

310.329 VEC        The People of New Jersey.

323.3 BEB             Where Cities Meet : The Urbanization of New Jersey. Bebout, John E.

331.88 TRO           Organized labor in New Jersey.

332.109749 FRE  Banking and Insurance in New Jersey: A History.

369.12 SAI            The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York : an hundred year record 1835-1935.

369.12 SAI             The Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York : history, customs,  chronology of events, 

                                 constitution, certain genealogies,and other matters of  interest. Crawford, Robert eds.

370.73 RAI             From a Normal Beginning : the Origins of Kean College of New Jersey. Raichle, Donald R.

371.872 LAN         Daring to be different : an experiment in busing: Verona, New Jersey, 1968-1969. Landsberger,

                                 Kurt

372.9749 WES      Elementary education in New Jersey, a history. West, Roscoe L.

373.9749 BOL      The New Jersey high school : a history. Bole, Robert D and Laurence B. Johnson.

378.749 SCH        Princeton and Rutgers : the two colonial colleges of New Jersey.

385.097 CRA        New Jersey in the Automobile Age : a history of transportation. Cranmer,  Jerome

388.46 EID            New Jersey trolleys in Color. Eid, Joseph and Gummere, Barker

398.469 MCC       The Jersey Devil. McCloy, James and Miller Jr., Ray

509.749 PIE          The Research State: a history of science in New Jersey.

557.49 WID           The geology and geography of New Jersey.

610.974 COW       Medicine and health in New Jersey: a history.

624.55 STG           The Brooklyn Bridge: they said it couldn't be built. St. George, Judith 

709.749 GER        Painting and sculpture in New Jersey.

720.974 GOW       Architecture in New Jersey : a record of American civilization.

745.09749 WHI    The decorative arts of early New Jersey. White, Margaret E.

811 ARM               Patriotic poems of New Jersey, chosen and annotated by William Clinton Armstrong.

811 PLATT           Ballads of New Jersey in the Revolution.

811.09 HOL          The Literary Heritage of New Jersey.

910.3 GAN            Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey. Gannett, Henry.

910.453 SEI          Shipwrecks and legends 'round Cape May.

911.749 SNY        The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries,1606-1968. Snyder, John P.

917.49 NEW         New Jersey : a guide to its present and past.

917.49 VAN          Early taverns and stagecoach days in New Jersey. Hoesen, Walter H.

920 RAI                 Biographical directory of American colonial and Revolutionary governors,

                               1607-1789. Raimo, John W.

920 WHO              Who was who in America.

929.2 ARM           Pioneer families of northwestern New Jersey. Armstrong, William C.

973.741 TOO       New Jersey troops in the Gettysburg campaign, from June 5 to July 31,1863

973.85 GRO        The Grover Cleveland memorial: the eighteenth of March in the year one thousand nine hundred

                               and nine.

GENEALOGY AND FAMILY RECORDS

369.12 DAU                 National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars : Lineage Book IV 1958-1966.

369.12 GEN                 A second supplement to the 1922 Index of ancestors and roll of members  of the general

                                      Society of Colonial Wars.

369.12 PED                 Pedigrees of Descendents of the Colonial Clergy.  

369.12 SAI                   Genealogical Record. Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.

911.73 KIR                   A Genealogical and Historical Atlas of the United States of America.  Kirkham, E. Kay

929 BOG                      Descendents of Anneke Jans Bogardus.  Bogardus, W.B.

929.LAR                       Huguenot Pedigrees. Lart, Charles E.

929.1 LIN V.2              Lineages of members of the National Society of the Sons and Daughters of  the Pilgrims to

                                      January 1,1929, compiled from the original applications.

929.01569 MAI            Sephardic genealogy : discovering your Sephardic ancestors and their world. Malka, Jeffrey S.

929.2 ARM                   Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey. Armstrong, William C.

929.2 BUR                   Burke’s American Families with British Ancestry.

929.2 BOT                   Ancestors and Descendents of Edmund Ward Botsford.

929.2 CAL                   Royal Ancestors of Some American Families. 2 vol. Call, Michael.

929.2 COL                   Royal ancestors of Magna Charta barons : including ancestry of John Talbot, 10th Earl of

                                      Shrewsbury, and Elizabeth Knox, daughter of Rev. John Knox and his wife, Margaret Stewart.

                                      Collings,  Carr.

929.2 GOO                  Genealogical notes; or, Contributions to the family history of some of the first settlers of 

                                      Connecticut and Massachusetts. Goodwin, Nathaniel

929.2 HUG 1956        Huguenot ancestors represented in the membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey.

                                      Koehler, Sara Morton.

929.2 HUG 1975        Huguenot ancestors documented by the Huguenot Society of New Jersey, inc. Hill, Glenna See.

929.2 CAL V.1&V.2   Royal ancestors of some American families.

929.2 STU                   Royalty for Commoners: the complete known lineage of John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, King

                                       of  England, and Queen Philippa

929.3 SCO                  Genealogical data from colonial New York newspapers : a consolidation of articles from the New

                                     York genealogical and biographical Record. Scott,  Kenneth.

929.373 ABR              Compendium of American Genealogy. First Families of America 7 vol.

929.373 COL              Colonial Families of the United States of America. 7 vol.

929.3749 GEN           Genealogy of New Jersey Families. 2 vol.

929.4 SHA                  The Sharples-Sharpless Family. 3 vol.

929.4 SHA                  The Sharpless Family, 1682-1882.

974.721 HOF V.1-2   Genealogies of Long Island Families: From the New York Genealogical   

                                      and Biographical Record. Hoff, Henry.                                                                                                           

HISTORICAL SOCIETIES

369.1 HER            The Heredity Register of the United States of America 1974. 

369.12 SOC          The Society of Colonial Wars.  14 vol. 

369.12 COL          Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century. 

369.12 DAU          National Society Daughters of the Colonial Wars. 

369.19 SAI            St. Nicholas Society. 13 vol. 

369.12 SOC          Society of Mayflower Descendents, State of New York. Sixth Record Book.

929.373 DAR        Daughters of the American Revolution.  9 vol.

929.373 HER        Hereditary Order of Descendents of Colonial Governors. 2 vol.

974.3 HOL            The Holland Society. 7 vol. 

IMMIGRATION

325.2415 ADA       Ireland and Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815 to the Famine.  Adams, William Forbes

929.3 BEN              Passenger Arrivals. Port of New York. 1820-1829.  Bentley, Elizabeth P.

929.3 COL              Book of Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775. Coldham, Peter Wilson.

929.3 COL              The Bristol Register of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654-1686.

    Coldham, Peter Wilson.

929.3 DOB              The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783. Dobson, David.

929.3 GEN              Passengers to America. A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from the New England Historical

                                  and Genealogical Register. 

929.3 HOF               English Origins of American Colonists. Hoff, Henry B. 

929.3 HOT               Lists of Emigrants to America., 1600-1700.  Hotten, John Damden. 

939.34 COL            The Complete Book of Emigrants, 1607-1774.  4 vol. Coldham, Peter Wilson.

929.37 GEN            Immigrants to the Middle Colonies.  Bristol and America.  A Record of the First Settlers in the

                                  Colonies of  North America, 1654-1685. 

929.37 OCA            Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York. O’Callaghan. Edmund Bailey.

929.37 SCO            Early New York Naturalizations, 1792-1840. Scott, Kenneth. 

929.37 WIL              Inhabitants of New York, 1774-1776. Wilson, Thomas B.

929.373 BOY          Ship Passenger Lists. The South, 1538-1825.  Boyer, Carl III. 

929.3747 EPP        New Netherland Roots.  Epperson, Gwenn F.

939.34 SCH            Wuerttemberg Emigration Index. 5 vol. Schenke and Froelke. 

INTRODUCTORY Genealogical WORKS

016.929 MAR      The Genealogist's Guide. Marshall, George W.

929.1 BEA            How to Find Your Family Roots.  Beard, Demong. 

929.1 CHR           Web publishing for genealogy. Christian, Peter.

   929.1 COL           They Came in Ships. A guide to finding your immigrant ancestor’s arrival record. Colletta, John

                                  Phillip.

929.1 COR           Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry. Corey, Kathleen R.

929.1 FIV              Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems.

929.1 GEN           Genealogical Research in New England.

929.1 GOU            Writing the Family Narrative. Gouldrup, Lawrence.

929.1 HAM            In Search of Scottish Ancestry. Hamilton-Edwards, Gerald.

929.1 HAT            Producing a Quality Family History. Hatcher, P.L.

929.1 HOW           Cyndi’s List. A comprehensive list of 70,000 genealogy sites on the

                                Internet. Howells, Cyndi.

929.1 MIT              Pocket Guide to Irish Genealogy. Mitchell, Brian.

929.1 REI              Genealogical research in England's Public Record Office: a guide for North American. Prowse, 

                                Judith.

929.10 BAI            Guide to the Genealogical and Biographical Sources for New York City- 1783-1898. Bailey,  

                                 Rosalie Fellows.

929.1 UNI 1972    The Hereditary register of the United States of America.

929.1 UNI 1973    The Hereditary register of the United States of America.

929.1 UNI 1974    The Hereditary register of the United States of America.

929.10 BAI             Guide to genealogical and biographical sources for New York City    (Manhattan) 1783-1898. Bailey, 

                                 Rosalie

929.1072                Handbook on Irish Genealogy. How to trace your ancestors and relatives in Ireland. 

929.1072 AME      Genealogical Research. Methods and Sources. 2 vol.

929.1072 ROG      Tracing Your English Ancestors. Rogers, Colin D.

929.10724 FAL     Irish and Scotch-Irish Ancestral Research. Falley, Margaret Dickson.

929.10724 GEN    Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry.

929.10973 JAC     Encyclopedia of local history and genealogy, U.S. counties, series 1. Jackson, Ronald Vern and

                                 Teeples, Gary Ronald eds.

929.1744 ROS      Mayflower increasings : for three generations.  Roser, Susan E.

929.2 LAR             Huguenot pedigrees. Lart, Charles E.

929.2 LYO             Lyon memorial. Families of Connecticut and New Jersey, including records of the descendants of  

                                the immigrants, Richard Lyon, of Fairfield, Henry Lyon, of Fairfield.  Elizabeth, Sidney.

929.4 CHO            Polish Roots.  Chorzempa, Rosemary.

LEGAL RECORDS

342.749 BOY           Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of New Jersey, 1664-1964.

346.749 COL           Colonial Conveyances : Provinces of East & West New Jersey, 1664-1794.

348.749 NEW          Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey, 1703-1775, New Jersey Archives.

                                   4 vol. 

929.3415 GEN         Landowners in Ireland, 1876. 

929.374921 DAN    Bergen County, New Jersey, Deed Records, 1689-1801. 

929.3756 GEN         North Carolina Tax Payers. 

974.9 CAL                Calendar of Records of the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703. 

974.9 DOC               Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey.

                                   12 vol. 

974.9 NEW              The Journal of the Procedure of the Governor and the Council Province of East New Jersey and After

                                   the First Day of December Anno Dmni-1682. 

974.902 JOU           Journal of the Governor and Council, Archives of the State of New Jersey

                                   1682-1775.  6 vol.

MAPS AND GAZETTEERS

557.49 NEW       Geological Survey of New Jersey. 1890. 

557.49 WID        The Geology and Geography of New Jersey.   Widner, Kemble.

910.3 GAN          Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey. 

911 LUN             Early Maps of North America.  Lunny, Robert. 

911.73 KIR         Geographical and Historical Atlas of the USA.  Kirkham, E. Kay 

911.41 HIS          Historical Atlas of Britain. 

911.749 SNY      The Story of New Jersey’s Civil Boundaries.  Snyder, John P. 

912.42                 The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers. (U.K.)

912.42 INS          Parish Maps of the Counties of England and Wales. 

912.421 GAR      Genealogical Atlas of England and Wales.  Gardner, Harland & Smith.

914.15 LEW       Topographical Dictionary of Ireland. 2 vol. Lewis, Samuel.

914.11 LEW       Topographical Dictionary of Scotland. 2 vol. Lewis, Samuel.

917.49 GOR        Gazetteer of the State of New Jersey. Gordon, Thomas F.

929.1 SMI            A genealogical gazetteer of England; an alphabetical dictionary of places, with   their location, 

                              ecclesiastical jurisdiction, population, and the date of the earliest entry in the registers of every

                              ancient parish in England.

929.374 TOR      New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Torrey, Clarence Altman.

929.75 SCO        New York Marriage Bonds, 1753-1783. Scott, Kenneth.

929.3749 CAL    New Jersey Archives. Abstracts of Wills. 1670-1817. 13 vol.

929.1 CUR          English Wills of Colonial Families.  Currer-Briggs, Noel.                                                    

MILITARY RECORDS

973.34 HEI         Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army. Heitman, Francis B.  

973.34 PIE         Pierce’s Register (1783)

973.5 GEN         General Society of the War of 1812. The Roster. 

974.7 NEW        New York Colonial Muster Rolls, 1664-1775. 2 vol.

974.9 NOR        New Jersey in 1793. An abstract and index to the 1793 Militia Census of the

                            State of New Jersey.  Norton, James S. 

974.9 REC        Officers and Men of New Jersey in Wars, 1791-1815. 

974.9 SIN          New Jersey and the American Revolution.  A Bibliography.  Sinclair & Schut. 

974.9 STR         Certificates and Receipts of Revolutionary New Jersey. 2 vol.

                            Stratford & Wilson. 

920 RAI             Biographical Directory of American Colonial and Revolutionary

                            Governors, 1607-1789. 

VITAL RECORDS

929.1 NAT           Index of Revolutionary War pension applications in the National Archives.

929.3 NEW          State of New Jersey Index to Wills Prior to 1901.  3 vol. 

929.2 NEW          New York Marriages Previous to 1784. 

929.3 NOR          North Carolina Marriages and Deaths, 1799-1825. 

929.3 USW         The Pension List of 1818. (U.S.). 

929.3 VIC            Index to Prerogative Wills of Ireland, 1536-1810. 

929.34 GEN        Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1858. 

929.3415 FAR    Irish Marriages, 1771-1812. Farrar, Henry. 

929.342 BOU     Wills and Their Whereabouts.  Bouwens, B.G. 

929.37 BOW      10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York, 1777-1834.  Bowman, Fred Q.

929.373 CLE      American Marriage Records Before 1699. Clemens, William Montgomery.

929.373 KLE      International Vital Records Handbook. Kemp, Thomas J.

YEARBOOKS

974.3 HOL 1913     Yearbook of the Holland Society of New-York.

974.93 CLA            The Clarion, 1962; 1964-69; 1971-74; 1978-2008.