Genealogical Collections on Microfilm at the NJHS

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  • Adams Family Genealogy (1 roll)
  • Alexander Family Records (1 roll)
  • Alms House Record Book, MSS Documents, Westfield (1 roll)
  • American Missionary Association Manuscripts (2 rolls)
  • American Museum in Britain Manuscripts (1 roll)
  • Asbury Park City Directories Series [See individual town listings] (32 rolls)
  • Asbury Park, NJ – City Directories, 1922, 1924, 1926-29, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1954-55, 1961, 1963, 1965-66 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • Atlantic Highlands, NJ – City Directories, 1895-96 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • Ball Family Genealogy (1 roll)
  • Ball Family Records (1 roll)
  • Baptist Church Records, Sherman Ave. Lyons Farm (2 rolls)
  • Bates Family [See reference Wright Genealogical Collection]
  • Bernards Vital Statistics [See reference Vital Statistics]
  • Bigeod Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • Brooks Family Records (James Emory) (13 rolls)
  • Brooks, P.B. Genealogical Collection (7 rolls)
  • Brown, Isaac – Trinity Cathedral Records (1 roll)
  • Bruen Family (1 roll)
  • Buckler Family, also Francis Clark and Richard Warren (1 roll)
  • Burlington County Loan Office Records (2 rolls)
  • California Census of 1842 (3 rolls)
  • Camden Poll Lists (1 roll)
  • Canfield Genealogical Collection (4 rolls)
  • Canfield-Rosse Geneaolgy (5 rolls)
  • Church Records, 1.) Christ, Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed (1 roll) and 2.) Trinity, Protestant, Episcopal Church of Swedesboro, NJ (1 roll)
  • Church Records, Baptist: Scotch Plains, Piscataway, Jacobstown, Middletown (5 rolls)
  • Clarke, Francis and Richard Warren – Buckler Family [See reference Buckler]
  • Clinton Cemetery Association Lot Books (3 rolls)
  • Coat of Arms Index (3 rolls)
  • Coddington Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • Constitutional Records of the U.S., 1676-1844 (1 roll)
  • Continental Loan Office of NJ, Records, 1777-1790 (4 rolls)
  • Cory Genealogical Collection (3 rolls)
  • Darby Family [See reference Wright Genealogical Collection]
  • Diary of a Quaker Farmer, Salem County (1 roll)
  • Doctoral Dissertations, Assorted (73 rolls)
  • Drew Family Papers (1 roll)
  • Dunham Family [See reference Wright Genealogical Collection]
  • “Early Settlements and Early Settlers of Pompton,” by Reverend Schenck (1 roll)
  • Emory, James – Brooks Family Records [See reference Brooks]
  • Essex County, sheriff records, William Pierson [See reference Pierson]
  • Fitz Randolph Family Records (1 roll)
  • Freehold, NJ – City Directories, 1922-23, 1937-38, 1947, 1949-50, 1952, 1954-62, 1965, 1967-73, 1975, 1981-82 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • Gardner, C.C. Family Records and Card Index (32 rolls)
  • Gardner, F.W. Family Records and Cards Index (33 rolls)
  • Genealogical Collection, assorted names (5 rolls)
  • Genealogical Magazine of NJ (GMNJ) – Surname Index V 1-30 (1 roll)
  • Gobel Genealogy Manuscripts (1 roll)
  • Hauptman Trial Record (3 rolls)
  • Hazard, Samuel and Ebenezer, papers, 1748-1811 (1 roll)
  • Historic American Building Survey (HABS), 1974 (8 rolls)
  • Hoesen Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • Holland Society Church Records (13 rolls)
  • Honeyman Genealogical Collection (3 rolls)
  • Hopewell, NJ, Records of the First Presbyterian Church, 1822-1869 (1 roll)
  • Howell Family [See reference Wright Genealogical Collection]
  • Hunterdon County Medical Records of Benjamin Van Kirk, 1768-1818 (2 rolls)
  • Hutchinson Family Genealogical Collection [with duplicates] (20 rolls)
  • Irvington Public Library, Irvington Local History (2 rolls)
  • Jacobstown, Membership Register of Baptist Church [See reference Church Records, Baptist]
  • Jersey City, NJ – City Directories, 1861-1901 (16 rolls)
  • Johnson Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • Jouett Family Genealogy (3 rolls)
  • Legistlative Records of the U.S., 1682-1799 (6 rolls)
  • Leonard, O.B. Genealogy (9 rolls)
  • Littell, John, Family records of the first settlers of Passaic Valley, with map (3 rolls)
  • Livingston, Robert R., papers (57 rolls)
  • Livingston, William (1723-90) letters to Reverend Noah Welles (1742-73) (1 roll)
  • Loan Subscription Records (1 roll)
  • Long Branch, NJ – City Directories, 1883, 1912, 1927, 1937-38, 1940, 1946, 1948-50, 1953, 1956-57, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965-66, 1968-70 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • Ludlow-Ross Genealogy (1 roll)
  • Martling Family (1 roll)
  • Mendham (Morris County) Cemetery Inscriptions, First Presbyterian Church, 1747-1948 (1 roll)
  • Middletown Baptist Church Records, 1712-1741, 1785-1796, 1804-1922 [See reference Church Records, Baptist]
  • Millville Vital Statistics [See reference Vital Statistics]
  • Miscellaneous Records of the U.S., 1951 (1 roll)
  • Monmouth County, NJ – City Directories, 1875, 1898-99, 1904-05 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • Monmouth County, NJ – City Directories, 1885-86, 1891, 1897-1901, 1905-17, 1920-21 (10 rolls)
  • Monmouth County, NJ – Farm Directory, 1914 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • Morris County Deaths, 1798-1849 (1 roll)
  • Morris County Marriages, 1798-1850 (1 roll)
  • Morris County Taxes, Education Tax Ratables [See reference Taxes]
  • Morris County, Roxbury, and Washington Township Census Records [See reference Roxbury]
  • Morristown, NJ, National Historical Society Manuscripts (1 roll)
  • Morse Genealogical Collection (33 rolls)
  • “My History and Genealogy,” by Charles E. Sheppard (14 rolls)
  • Neilson Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • New England Historical Genealogical Society, New England marriages prior to 1700 [See reference New England Marriages]
  • New England marriages prior to 1700 (7 rolls)
  • New Hampshire Cemetery Inscriptions, Church Records, Vital and Marriage Records, Bible Records, Wills – other states including DE, NJ, MD, and CT (3 rolls)
  • New Jersey Biographical Card Index
  • New Jersey Historical Society, “The Retaliation,” a poem, 1806 (2 rolls)
  • New Jersey Historical Society, letters from Major Bloomfield thru James Madison Amendments (1 roll)
  • New Jersey Historical Society, old documents and letters (1 roll)
  • Newark Tax Lists, South Ward (1 roll)
  • Newark Town Records, township committee meetings (1 roll)
  • NJ Loan Office, U.S. Bureau of Public Debt (2 roll)
  • Notebooks index (2 rolls)
  • Park Collections [See reference Morristown]
  • Parker, James Manuscript Collection (7 rolls)
  • Passaic Valley Descendants (1 roll)
  • Passaic Valley Descendants, general notes (2 rolls)
  • Passaic Valley, NJ, Family records of the first settlers, by John Littell [See reference Littell, John]
  • Paterson, NJ – City Directories, 1861-1901 (9 rolls)
  • Pennington, NJ, First Presbyterian Church Records – baptism, marriage, death – 1700-1888 (1 roll)
  • Pierson, William, sheriff of Essex County records (2 rolls)
  • Piscataway First Baptist Church – Skeleton, NJ, 1781-1855 [See reference Church Records, Baptist]
  • Plume, Beach Genealogical Collection (3 rolls)
  • Polhemus Family (2 rolls)
  • Pompton Families, by Reverend Schenck [See reference Schenck]
  • Pompton Plains and vicinity, Cemetery Records (2 rolls)
  • Randolph Genealogy: Stelle F. Randolph Collection index cards (10 rolls)
  • Read, Susan R. Genealogical Collection (3 rolls)
  • Red Bank, NJ – City Directories, 1893-94, 1904, 1938, 1945-46, 1948, 1950, 1952-54, 1956, 1958-59, 1961-62, 1964, 1966-67, 1969-70, 1972-73, 1977 [See reference Asbury Park City Directories Series]
  • “Retaliation,” a poem, 1806 [See reference New Jersey Historical Society]
  • Revolutionary War Manuscripts, Diary, and Papers (9 rolls)
  • Roseborough Family (1 roll)
  • Roxbury, Washington Township, and Morris County Census Records (1 roll)
  • Salem County, Diary of a Quaker Farmer [See reference Diary]
  • Schenck, “Early Settlements and Early Settlers of Pompton” [See reference “Early”]
  • Schenck, Pompton Families [See reference Pompton Families]
  • Schock Family [See reference Wright Genealogical Collection]
  • Scotch Plains Baptist Church Records, 1747-1941 [See reference Church Records, Baptist]
  • Scudder Association Bulletin (1 roll)
  • Session Law – U.S., 1704-1714 (1 roll)
  • Sheppard, Charles E., My History and Genealogy [See reference “My History”]
  • Sheriff Records, Essex County [See reference Pierson]
  • Sheriff Records, Union County [See reference Union County]
  • Sherman Ave. Lyons Farm, Baptist Church Records [See reference Church Records, Baptist]
  • Skeleton, NJ – First Baptist Church of Piscataway, 1781-1855 [See reference Church Records, Baptist]
  • Smith, Lloyd Collection [See reference Morristown]
  • Smithman, Ella B. Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • Somerset Vital Statistics [See reference Vital Statistics]
  • South Ward, Newark Tax Lists [See reference Newark Tax Lists]
  • Statutory Law – U.S., 1681-1699 (5 rolls)
  • Stockton Genealogical Collection (44 rolls)
  • Sussex County, DE Court Records, 1680-1699 (1 roll)
  • Swedesboro, NJ, Records of Swedish Lutheran Church (1 roll)
  • Taxes, County Tax Ratables (19 rolls)
  • Taxes, Education Tax Ratables, Morris County (5 rolls)
  • Thompson, Aaron, Music Book (1 roll)
  • Trinty Catherdral Records, Issac Brown [See reference Brown]
  • Union County Sheriff Records (1 roll)
  • Vail, Alfred, papers (2 rolls)
  • Vail, Alfred, papers (1 roll)
  • Vail, Stephen, journal (3 rolls)
  • Van Kirk, Benjamin, Medical Records, 1768-1815 [See reference Hunterdon County]
  • Vital Statistics – Millville, Bernards, Somerset (3 rolls)
  • Warren County, Cemetery Records V 26-30 (1 roll)
  • Warren Township Historical Society – births, marriages, death certificates (1 roll)
  • Warren, Richard and Francis Clarke – Buckler Family [See reference Buckler]
  • Washington Township, Roxbury, and Morris County Census Records [See reference Roxbury]
  • Washington, NJ, First Presbyterian Church – baptisms, marriages, deaths, 1817-1955 (2 rolls)
  • Welles, Reverend Noah (1742-73), letters received from William Livingston (1723-90) [See reference Livingston]
  • Wells, Guy Genealogical Collection (1 roll)
  • Wells, John, Log Book, 1837 (1 roll)
  • Witherspoon, John, “Life of Reverend John Witherspoon” (1 roll)
  • Woodland Cemetery Card Index – Burials 1895-1980
  • Wright, Helen Genealogical Collection, includes Bates, Darby, Dunham, Schock, and Howell Familes (3 rolls)
  • Wrightstown, NJ, Jacobstown Baptist Church Records, 1785- c.1943 [See reference Church Records, Baptist]

Census Microfilm in the NJHS Library

Federal Census – Population Schedules for New Jersey

  • Census year, format, location
  • 1790 Book only, located in reading room
  • 1800 (Cumberland Co. Only) located in reading room, book index only
  • 1810 No population schedule for New Jersey
  • 1820 No population schedule for New Jersey
  • 1830 Original on microfilm, book index in reading room
  • 1840 Original on microfilm, book index in reading room
  • 1850 Original on microfilm, book index in reading room
  • 1860 Original on microfilm, book index in reading room
  • 1870 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1880 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1890 (Jersey City only) original on microfilm, no index
  • 1900 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1910 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1920 Original on microfilm, soundex on microfilm

Federal Census – Mortality Schedules for New Jersey

  • 1850 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1860 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1870 Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1880 Original on microfilm, no index
  • No other years available.

Federal Census – Civil War Veterans Schedules for New Jersey

  • 1890 Original on microfilm, no index

New Jersey State Censuses

  • 1793 Militia Census, index and abstract book in reading room
  • 1855-1865 (excludes Essex Co.) Original on microfilm, no index
  • 1885 Original on microfilm, no index
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