What's New!

April 2024: A new State Coordinator has been elected, and a new ASC appointed.

December 2020:  Unfortunately, this page has not been updated in quite some time.  That has been my fault as the State Coordinator.  I served as the National Coordinator (NC) for the entire USGenWeb Project and was so busy that I did not do justice to New Jersey.  I also was and still am not adept at designing sites.  Now that I am no longer the NC, I have begun the process of learning how to work with sites via html.  For many years my own sites have been housed on Google Classic sites.  Coinciding with my moving out of the NC position, I was made aware that Google was going to do away with Google Classic sites.  I tried converting to their New Sites model and hated it.  I am not moving through the process of managing the State site (with the help of a fabulous person in the project that I turn to often for assistance.  Although Jeff Kemp is not an assistant state coordinator, he redesigned the state site and has been maintaining it for mr when needed.  I am now taking that on.  As I have been the State Coordinator for some time, and haven't been able to talk any of our current coordinators into delving into this roll, I am still here.  Having my emal from prior years will enable me to update this page with additional information. This month I have updated the Conference page, Genealogical and Historical Societies page, Projects page, the Research page, the Artifacts page, and the Vital Records page.  

Current counties available for adoption:  Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Monmouth, Ocean, Salem, Somerset, Sussex.

Recently adopted counties were:  Gloucester, Hunterdon, Middlesex and Warren.

July 2016:  I am beginning my review of the state site to get information updated.  Please be patient as the site is worked on gradually.  Thank you  I have now updated to the newest URL the Union County to https://njunion.wordpress.com/  Be sure to visit the site.  It's looking great. 

April 2016:  A visitor to our site has advised that numerous links under Research: Military Records are not working.  I will try to get those updated; however, it will be a bit before I can get that done.  I have been dealing with a health situation and a relocation to another state.  Hopefully, during the month of July 2016 I will be able to get this corrected and the rest of the state reviewed for any non-working links.  If you find a link that is not working property, feel free to send me an email to let me know.  Email me. 

March 2016:  Martha Crosley Graham has resigned as coordinator for Burlington, Middlesex and Sussex counties; they are now available for adoption.  Burlington County has been adopted by Charles Updike and is now located at:  http://burlington.njgen.com.  Sussex county has been adopted by Meagan Swartley and is now located at ______________.  After being a long term County Coordinator for Warren County, Michelle Chubenko has left to manage other projects for New Jersey and is up to great things.  It is sad to see her leave after such a long time with NJGenWeb.  We shall miss her; however, Warren County has been adopted by Meagan Swartley, and will be well taken care of by Meagan.  Warren County is now located at ___________________.  We are planning to move Middlesex County back to a Rootsweb account very soon, and that will be in the works shortly.  Always check the County Page for links to be sure you are at the current location for each county. 

February 2016:  Martha Crosley Graham has moved her three counties to new URLs as follows:  Burlington County is now located at ______; Middlesex County is now located at __________; Sussex County is now located at ________.   Michelle Chubenko has resigned as County Coordinator for Warren County due to other pressing responsibilities.  Meagan Swartley has adopted Warren County.  Robin Mason has moved Union County to a new URL - www.njuniongenweb.com.  The State page has been moved at least temporarily to a Google site while Rootsweb's servers are down.  The state page is now located at:  http://www.usgenwebsites.org/NJGenWeb?

May 2012: County Coordinator Charlie Toms has decided to step down as the County Coordinator for Middlesex County. Martha Crosley Graham has chosen to adopt Middlesex County and it has a new URL - http://www.njdata.info/middlesex/. Be sure to stop by Middlesex County and say hello to Martha!  Thanks, Martha, for taking on this additional site.

April 2012: Added a listing of 1940 NJ Census Enumeration Districts and Microfilm Roll Numbers.

March 2012: The State Coordinator has created a new site that she hopes will grow over time - New Jersey Biographies and Ancestry - http://sites.google.com/site/newjerseybiographiesancestry/  .  There isn't much there yet, but we are hoping it will become a special project for New Jersey.  If you would like to contribute, please locate the book on Google Books, your local library access to Heritage Quest, or on Archives.org. When and if I should leave NJGenWeb, the site will remain part of the NJGenWeb Project and the password will be turned over to the new State Coordinator.

September 2012:  Ancestry-Rootsweb has finally been given permission by Alan Sinclair's family to turn over the Hunterdon County site account on the Ancestry-Rootsweb servers to Denise, as the State Coordinator for New Jersey. Alan was the original county coordinator for Hunterdon County. All material must stay on the site and his name noted as the County Coordinator for the number of years that he maintained the site.

July 2012:  Linda K. Lewis has adopted Gloucester County. Welcome aboard, Linda!

May 2012: County Coordinator Charlie Toms has decided to step down as the County Coordinator for Middlesex County. Martha Crosley Graham has chosen to adopt Middlesex County and it has a new URL - http://www.bmsnj.x10.mx/middlesex/. Be sure to stop by Middlesex County and say hello to Martha!  Thanks, Martha, for taking on this additional site.

April 2012: Added a listing of 1940 NJ Census Enumeration Districts and Microfilm Roll Numbers.

March 2012: The State Coordinator has created a new site that she hopes will grow over time - New Jersey Biographies and Ancestry - http://sites.google.com/site/newjerseybiographiesancestry/. There isn't much there yet, but we are hoping it will become a special project for New Jersey. If you would like to contribute, please locate the book on Google Books, your local library access to Heritage Quest, or on Archives.org. When and if I should leave NJGenWeb, the site will remain part of the NJGenWeb Project and the password will be turned over to the new State Coordinator.

February 2012: In an election for State Coordinator, Denise Wells was re-elected for another two-year term. Denise re-appointed Brianne Kelly-Bly as an Assistant State Coordinator, and also selected Linda K. Lewis as a second Assistant State Coordinator.  Many thanks to the assistance received over the past few years from Michelle Chubenko! We have served together in NJGenWeb for several years together now, and all of her contributions and assistance was hugely beneficial to the state!  You're the best, Michelle!

November 2011: Jack Mount has moved the Mercer County site to a new URL.  The county is now located at http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/mercer.html

February 2011: Linda K. Lewis has been appointed as Assistant State Coordinator.

February 2009: Stephanie Faycik has updated the look for two counties: Ocean and Monmouth counties. Be sure to check them out. She's also working on a SECRET project for New Jersey. Stay tuned! Also in February, Brianne Kelly-Bly has adopted Somerset County, and Martha Crosley Graham has adopted Burlington County.

January 2009: Our Gloucester County coordinator has resigned and Gloucester is now available for adoption.

October 2008: County Coordinator Michael Lewis resigned and Somerset County is available for adoption.

September 2008: Denise Wells, State Coordinator for New Jersey and also a county coordinator for two New Jersey counties, has been elected SEMA County Coordinator Representative for the SEMA Region. Included in the SEMA region are the following: Alabama, Delaware, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Also, the following counties need loving caretakers: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Salem. Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May and Salem are sporting the design work of our former SC, Janice Brown.

August 2008: Nathan Zipfel has decided to resign from Camden County to take care of other matters at the moment. We wish him the best in all of his endeavors. Camden County is now available for adoption. Bettie Wood has joined NJGenWeb and adopted Gloucester County!

June 2008: Brianne Kelly-Bly has been appointed as Assistant State Coordinator. Michael Alan Lewis has adopted Somerset County. Stephen Lignowski, our town coordinator for Kearney, Hudson County, has left us to attend to family and life matters for now. Hopefully, he will return in the future.

April 2008: Our new State Coordinator is Denise Wells. Michelle Chubenko has been re-appointed as Assistant Coordinator. Middlesex County has been adopted. Our new coordinator is Jan Cortez! Welcome Jan to NJGenWeb!

March 2008: We sadly are addressing the resignation of our State Coordinator, Janice Brown, who has stepped down to tackle numerous other projects and responsibilities. We will miss Janice!

February 2008: Long-time volunteer Pat Mount announced her retirement. We have placed Middlesex County up for adoption.

January 2008: Cumberland County has been adopted! Our new coordinator is Kate Harbold. Kate, welcome to our volunteer team!

June 2007: Salem, Burlington, and Cumberland Counties have a new look. Also we have a new transcribing volunteer, George Price, and a new lookup volunteer, Betty Hughes. Thank you, George and Betty!

May 2007: Sussex County has been adopted by Martha Crosley Graham! Salem County has been adopted by Janice Brown. Cumberland County is up for adoption.

April 2007: New election results: Janice Brown is State Coordinator; Assistant State Coordinators, Michelle Chubenko and Denise Wells.
-The Burlington County web site is now up for adoption.

March & April 2007: NJGenWeb Bylaws and Policies were written, voted on, and accepted by our state project members.

February 2007: - Denise Wells has taken on the additional responsibility of Bergen County.

January 2007:
- Janice Brown is the new State Coordinator, and she has appointed Michelle Chubenko and Denise Wells as Assistant Coordinators.
- Added a search engine to the main and research pages, that will allow you to search for keywords on all web sites in the NJGenWeb Project at once.
- Sussex County is now completely redone, and is awaiting a coordinator to adopt it.
- Cape May County has been adopted by Janice Brown. It has a new look, new location, and new content.
- It is with deep regret that we learn of Heather Jones DeGeorge's decision to step down as State Coordinator, and to also give up Somerset County. We wish her the best.
- Stephanie Faycik, the current coordinator of Ocean County has adopted Monmouth County.
- Somerset County is now up for adoption.

- November 2006: Atlantic and Bergen Counties adopted by Janice Brown, and revamped!