History, Geography, and Genealogy - New Jersey

See also: Genealogy Guide to see the resources of the Newark Library  /  General Genealogy sites.

 

Afro-Americans in New Jersey: A Short History

http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Digidox9.php 

Full text of Giles R. Wright's 1989 publication. 

 

Asbury Park / Ocean Grove Historical Newspapers

http://www.digifind-it.com/oghs/home.php

 

Cases Concerning Slavery and Manumission
http://fas-history.rutgers.edu/clemens/NJLaw/slaverypage.html

Contains New Jersey Laws on Slavery and Abolition, New Jersey Appellate Court Cases on Slavery, Freedom, and Manumission, and New Jersey Cases from New Jersey Law Reports.

 

Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of New-Jersey Relative to the Manumission of Negroes and Others Holden in Bondage

https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=modern_english/uvaGenText/tei/VarJers.xml;query=;brand=default

Actual cases relating to slavery in New Jersey.

 

Cemeteries of New Jersey

http://www.interment.net/us/nj/index.htm 

Search the online transcriptions of various New Jersey cemeteries.

 

Cranford Digitized Materials

http://www.digifind-it.com/cranford/home.php

Newspapers, yearbooks, city directories, and more.

 

Descendants of Founders of New Jersey
http://www.njfounders.org/history/lord-john-berkeley-sir-george-carteret-and-concessions-and-agreements

 

Electronic New Jersey: A Digital Archive of New Jersey History

http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/njh 

Material about Jersey homesteads and the Great Depression, social protest in the 1960's, the Revolutionary era, the Civil War era, the World War II era, and Paul Robeson's career at Rutgers.

 

Early Plainfield Newspapers

http://www.plainfieldlibrary.info/Departments/LH/LH_digitizednewspapers.html

A collection of digitized early local newspapers, dating from 1837 to 1918. Includes: Plainfield Union (1837-1852), Central New Jersey Times (1868-1880), The Constitutionalist (1868-1911), Plainfield Evening News (1884-1894), The Plainfield Courier (1891-1894), Plainfield Daily Press (1887-1916), and the Plainfield Record (1916-1918). The Suburbanite (1903-1909), a monthly magazine, is also included.

 

Garden State Legacy

http://www.gardenstatelegacy.com/index.html

A directory of New Jersey history organizations, a speaker's bureau, magazine articles and an ,online museum of artifacts relating to New Jersey history.

 

Historical Maps of New Jersey

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/MAPS.html

Images principally from Rutgers University Special Collections include 1784 boundary lines, 1928 and 1959 electric companies, 1960s high schools, and more.

 

Historical New Brunswick Newspapers

http://newbrunswick.archivalweb.com/reelSelector.php

47 years of the New Brunswick Daily Times and the Daily Home News covering the post Civil War period through 1918.

 

Indigenous Tribes of New Jersey

https://princetonlibrary.org/exploring-native-american-heritage/

Information about the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, Powhatan Renape Nation, and Ramapough Lenape Nation.

 

Kean University NJ History Project

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=781708252

"This collection consists of mostly full view (and some limited view) non-fiction books and novels that represent the broad and rich history of New Jersey in the late 19th and early 20th centuries."

 

Lyndhurst Historical Newspaper

http://www.digifind-it.com/lyndhurst/leader.php

 

New Jersey Almanac
https://www.newjerseyalmanac.com/timeline.html
From Pre-historic times to the 2000+ era.

 

New Jersey Digital Highway
http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/ 

"Where history, culture and learning merge."  Currently in development the New Jersey Digital Highway will serve as a starting point in local historical studies.  Already you can sample images about New Jersey's immigration experience.

 

New Jersey Department of State: Documentary Treasures

https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/doctreasures.html

The links included here "celebrate our state and colonial charters, and other monumental documents from New Jersey's rich history."

 

New Jersey State Constitutions

https://www.nj.gov/state/archives/docconstitution.html

The New Jersey Constitution of 1776 and its 1947 revision. Also, find information about  the 1665 grant to Berkeley and Carteret and Introduction to the 1677 Concessions and Agreements

 

New Jersey Historic Maps

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/MAPS.html 

From the Rutgers Cartography Department.  Includes county and period maps, as well as links to other historical resources.  Especially strong in Middlesex County maps.

 

New Jersey Historical Society
https://jerseyhistory.org/
"The New Jersey Historical Society collects, preserves, teaches and interprets New Jersey history through our archives, research library and educational programs."

 

New Jersey History

http://njh.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/njh

"The journal New Jersey History, founded as the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society in 1845 and published under the direction of the Society until 2005, has been re-launched under the editorial direction of historians at the New Jersey Historical Commission,

 

New Jersey Network - American Archive of Public Broadcasting

americanarchive.org/participating-orgs/1809

Over 1600 digitized episodes of "New Jersey Nightly News" from 1971-1992 (most 1980s).

 

New Jersey Resources at RootsWeb
https://wiki.rootsweb.com/wiki/index.php/New_Jersey_County_Resources

Especially valuable for finding genealogy materials. Access, by county, to lists of surnames and of immigrants arriving by ship, the Social Security Death Index, Bible records, biographies, deeds, obituaries, pensions, and wills.

 

New Jersey Women's History

http://www.njwomenshistory.org/

Laws, letters, petitions, poems, reports, and more about the conditions affecting New Jersey women, Black and white, from the Revolutionary era to contemporary times.  Website also includes notable facts, timeline, and images. 

 

Plainfield City Directories

http://www.digifind-it.com/plainfield/city_directories.php 

 The city directories span 1870 to 1982, with gaps, with varying information on the city over the one hundred and twelve year span of their coverage. The earliest directory held by the Library is the Elizabeth directory for 1870, which includes an eleven-page section for Plainfield businesses. By the time the final directory was published in 1982, its roughly 700 pages were dedicated to Plainfield and North Plainfield exclusively.

 

Rahway Historical Newspapers

http://www.digifind-it.com/rahway/newspapers.php

 

Red Bank Digitized Newspaper and Materials

http://www.digifind-it.com/redbank/home.php

 

Vital Records

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/new_jersey.htm

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where to write for birth, marriage, divorce, and death records in the State of New Jersey.

 

Woodbridge Township Historical Newspapers

http://www.digifind-it.com/woodbridge/home.php

 

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