New Jersey Historical Records

New Jersey, a northeastern U.S. state, boasts 130 miles of Atlantic coast. It borders New York, the Atlantic Ocean, the Delaware River, Pennsylvania, Delaware Bay, and Delaware. The most densely populated state, New Jersey covers 7,354 square miles and has about 9.3 million residents as of the 2020 census. Trenton is the capital, and Newark is the largest city. Notable areas include Liberty State Park, Asbury Park, and Cape May.

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New Jersey vital records New Jersey Marriage Licenses, 1915-2017 11,471,069 records available New Jersey Death Index, 1920-1929, 1949-2017 5,081,417 records available New Jersey Births, 1901-1929 1,962,741 records available New Jersey Marriage License Index, 1901-1914 769,976 records available New Jersey Birth Index 1901-1903 272,250 records available New Jersey Death Index 1901-1903 96,216 records available Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume 3 1,046 records available Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches, Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey, Part 2 779 records available See the entire collection catalog of vital records in New Jersey	New Jersey military records Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War 903 records available Official Register of the Officers And Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War 886 records available Records of Officers And Men of New Jersey in Wars 1791-1815 802 records available See the entire collection catalog of military records in New Jersey
New Jersey directories, guides and references Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Midland Park and Fair Lawn, Bergen County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1946 1,218 records available New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1958 1,154 records available Business Directory of New York City, And Newark City, New Jersey (1889) 1,081 records records available Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1948 1,049 records available Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1960 1,001 records available Trenton County, New Jersey, County Directory, 1919 917 records available Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1954 901 records records available The Story of an Old Farm, or, Life in New Jersey in the Eighteenth Century 784 records available Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1957 779 records available Polk's New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, City Directory, 1948 769 records available See the entire collection catalog of directories, guides and references in New Jersey	New Jersey histories, memories and biographies Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume 1 2,208 records available Descendants of Richard Waterhouse of Portsmouth, New Hampshire 1,824 records available Field Genealogy, Being the Record of all the Field Family in America Whose Ancestors Were in this Country Prior to 1700 1,590 records available History of Bergen County, New Jersey, 1630 - 1923, Volume 1 1,270 records available History of the City of Newark, New Jersey, 1666-1913, Volume 1 1,182 records available Historical And Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating To the Settlement And Settlers of New York And New Jersey, Volume 5 (1903) 1,164 records available History of Hunterdon And Somerset Counties, New Jersey (1881) 1,128 records records available Historical And Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating To the Settlement And Settlers of New York And New Jersey, Volume 3 (1903) 1,112 records available History of Jersey City, New Jersey 1,070 records available History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey 1,070 records available The Zabriskie Family: A Three Hundred and One year History of the Descendants of Albrecht Zaborowskij (Ca 1638 - 1711) of Bergen County, New Jersey, Volume 1 1,065 records available History of Bergen And Passaic Counties, New Jersey (1995) 1,006 records available The Zabriskie Family: A Three Hundred and One year History of the Descendants of Albrecht Zaborowskij (Ca 1638 - 1711) of Bergen County, New Jersey, Volume 2 928 records records available History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem And Cumberland New Jersey, Volume 2 916 records available Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 7 - 8, 1912 - 1913 904 records available History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem And Cumberland, New Jersey, Volume 1 848 records available Richard Higgins: a Resident And Pioneer Settler at Plymouth And Eastham, Massachusetts, And at Piscataway, New Jersey, And His Descendants (1918) 838 records records available Richard Higgins: A Resident and Pioneer Settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey and His Descendants 823 records available Early Germans of New Jersey 810 records available Archive of New Jersey, Volume 10: Administration of Governor William Franklin, 1767-1776 (1886) 786 records available New Jersey Coast in Three Centuries, Volume 3 772 records available Descendants of Thomas Warne, Born 1652, Died 1722, One of the Twenty-Four Proprietors of East New Jersey (1911) 770 records available Genealogy of the Warne Family in America: Principally the Descendants of Thomas Warne, Born 1652, Died 1722, One of the Twenty-Four Proprietors of East New Jersey (1911) 766 records available A Record of the Ancestry and Descendants of Henry & Sarah (Thompson) Hendricks of Monmouth County, New Jersey 760 records available See the entire collection catalog of histories, memories and biographies in New Jersey
New Jersey schools and universities records College of New Jersey (Ewing Township, New Jersey), 1930 - 1958 4,338 records available New Jersey State Teachers College (Montclair, NJ), 1932 - 19712,354 records available See the entire collection catalog of school and universities records in New Jersey	New Jersey government, land, court & wills records New Jersey, Retired State Employees 453,012 records available See the entire collection catalog of government, land, court & wills records in New Jersey
New Jersey immigration & travel records Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey 868 records available See the entire collection catalog of immigration & travel records in New Jersey	New Jersey newspaper records New Jersey Newspapers, 1859-1946 277,295 records available See the entire collection catalog of newspaper records in New Jersey

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