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Research Resources

Listed below is information and links to other websites that could help you with your family research.

Government Agencies

Board of Chosen Freeholders
County of Warren
Wayne Dumont, Jr. Admin. Bldg.
165 County Route 519 South
Belvidere, New Jersey 07823-1949
Telephone: (908) 475-6500

New Jersey State Archives
225 West State Street
PO Box 307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
(609) 292-6260
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30 - Closed on State Holidays.
The records stored here include original vital statistics registers, 1848-1878, Dept. of Health records on film 1878-1923/1940, births of children of slaves (beginning 1804), county marriages (beginning 1795), colonial marriage bonds (1711-1795), divorces (1743-1850), federal (1830-1910) and state (1855-1915) censuses, tax and land records, military records (Colonial Wars to WW I), naturalizations, court records, county records, state prison records, election returns, and more.

Northampton County PA Court Services
669 Washington Street
Easton, PA 18042-7485
(610) 559-3000
Marriage records (1885 to present), birth and death records (1893 to 1936), wills, adoption and many other records for Northampton County, PA.

Libraries

Warren County Library - Main Branch Richard D. Gardner Branch 2 Shotwell Drive, Belvidere, NJ 07823 (908) 818-1280	Alpha Library East Boulevard and Sampson Avenue Alpha, NJ 08865 (908) 454-1445
Catherine Dickson Hofman Branch 4 Lambert Road, Blairstown, NJ 07825 (908) 362-8335	Oxford Public Library Washington Avenue Oxford, NJ 07863 (908) 453-2625
Southwest Branch, Stewartsville (404 Rt. 519, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 (908) 689-7922	Centenary College Library 400 Jefferson Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840-2100 (908) 852-1400
Northeast Branch - Independence 40 US Hwy 46 West, Independence, NJ 07840 (908) 813-3858	Phillipsburg Free Public Library 200 Frost Avenue Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 (908) 454-3712
Washington Public Library 20 West Carlton Avenue Washington, NJ 07882 (908) 689-0201	Hackettstown Public Library 110 Church Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840 (908) 852-4936
Easton Area Public Library 6th and Church Streets Easton, PA 18042 (610) 258-2917 The Marx Room of Local History has many genealogy books and information including local municipal and county histories, 25 shelves of family histories, 3 file drawers of family folders, local history and photographs, church histories and records, yearbooks from Easton and other area schools, abstracts of wills in County Courthouse (1752-1840), civil war records, revolutionary and early colonial histories, PA and NJ archives series, 74 of 86 newspapers published in Easton from 1793 to present, indexing of marriages and deaths appearing in those papers, cemetery records for some North. County, PA Cemeteries, maps, atlases, tax lists, North. County, PA Census records , and more.1:00-5:00PM	New Jersey State Library Genealogy and Local History Office 185 West State Street PO Box 520 Trenton, NJ 08625-0520 (609) 292-6220 - located on Level 4 of the building Records stored here include genealogical reference tools, general periodicals, historical works and family genealogies on colonial and revolutionary periods of the eastern US, ships' passenger lists, county and local histories, NJ census records on microfilm - 1855, 1865 (incomplete, no index), 1885 to 1915 (complete, no index), and more.

Genealogical & Historical Societies, and Museums

Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society PO Box 313, Belvidere, NJ 07823 Museum located at 313 Mansfield Street (908) 475-4246	Delaware and Lehigh Valleys Genealogy Club P.O. Box 221 Easton, PA 18044
Asbury Historical Society Info: (908) 475-5517 Meetings at Asbury Methodist Church, Main Street, Asbury.	Hackettstown Historical Society & Museum 106 Church Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840-2206 (908) 852-8797
Hardwick Township Historical Society and Vass Farmstead 97 Stillwater Road, Blairstown, NJ 07825	Hope Historical Society & Museum 323 High Street, Hope, NJ 07844
Oxford Historical Society PO Box 277, Oxford, NJ 07863 (908) 453-3142 Meetings: at Oxford Municipal Building, 11 Green St., Oxford, 7:30 pm	Phillipsburg Historical Society Municipal Building 675 Corliss Avenue Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 (908) 454-3478
Pohatcong History & Heritage Society PO Box 921 Alpha, NJ 08865-0921 (908) 387-0357 Meetings at the Calvary Bible Fellowship Church in Finesville.	Washington Historical Society c/o Washington Public Library 20 W. Carlton Ave. Washington, NJ 07882-1202 Meetings at the Washington Public Library.
Warren County Division of Cultural & Heritage Affairs c/o Shippen Manor 8 Belvidere Ave., Oxford, NJ 07863 (908) 453-4381 Advisory Board meets every 3rd Tuesday, 5pm, at the Department of Land Preservation, 500 Mt. Pisgah Ave., Oxford, NJ 07863.	Shippen Manor Museum Info: (908) 453-4381 Visit a 1754 stone mansion associated with Oxford Furnace, New Jersey's longest running colonial ironworks, both sites are on the National Register.
White Township Historical Society & Museum 555 County Road 519, Belvidere, NJ 07823 (908) 689-7677 or (908) 453-2379 Meetings at the White Township Municipal Building, Routes 519 and 46, Bridgeville.	Hunterdon County Historical Society 114 Main Street Flemington, NJ 08822 (908) 782-1091
Morris Area Genealogical Society P.O. Box 105 Convent Station, NJ 07961-0105	Morris County Historical Society 68 Morris Avenue Morristown, NJ 07960 (973) 267-3465
Sussex County Historical Society 82 Main Street PO Box 913, Newton, NJ 07860 (201) 383-6010	Genealogical Society of New Jersey PO Box 1476 Trenton, NJ 08607-1476
Frelinghuysen Township Historical Society	Friends of the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center Phillipsburg, NJ
Greenwich Historical Society	Harmony Township Historical Society and Harmony Township Historic Van Nest-Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead 3026 Belvidere Road, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
Belvidere Heritage P.O. Box 134, Belvidere, NJ 07825	Phillipsburg Area Historical Society & the Roseberry House 120 Filmore St., Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
Rutherfurd Hall 1686 Route 517, Allamuchy, NJ 07820	Phillipsburg Railroad Historians, Inc. 99 Cross St., Phillipsburg, NJ 08865
The Heritage Museum at Meadow Breeze Park 54 Meadow Breeze Lane, Washington, NJ 07882	Friends of Ramsaysburg & Ramsaysburg Historic Homestead intersection of Ramsaysburg Road and Route 46, Knowlton, NJ 07832

Historic Preservation Commissions

Greenwich Preservation Commission Meets at the Municipal Building, 321 Greenwich St., Stewartsville	Knowlton Township Historic Commission 628 NJ-94, Columbia, NJ 07832. (908) 496-4816
Harmony Township Historic Comission and 3003 Belvidere Road, Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 Meetings at the Harmony Township Municipal Building. (908) 213-1600 ext. 15.	Pohatcong Historic Commission 50 Municipal Drive, Pohatcong, NJ, 08865 (410) 725-1027
Washington Township Historic Preservation Commission Municipal Hall, 211 Route 31 North, Washington, NJ 07882	Blairstown Historic Preservation Committee 106 NJ-94, Blairstown, NJ 07825
Franklin Township Historical Commission 2093 Rt. 57, Broadway, NJ 08808 (908) 689-3994	Hope Historic Preservation Commission 407 Hope-Great Meadows Road, Hope, NJ 07844
Morris Canal Committee 500 Mt. Pisgah Ave., P.O. Box 179, Oxford, NJ 07863

Other Resources

The USGenWeb Project  Access to websites for all states in the USA

WorldGenWeb Project  Access to websites for other countries

Maps - Rutgers University Cartography Dept, Most of the map images on this site are from Rutgers' Special Collections.

Ancestry.com  Search for records

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