Research References for Somerset County

Outline map of New Jersey showing Somerset County (darkened area)

• Churches of Somerset County NJ
   
• History of Somerset County and it's municipalities


• Early Somerset Land Records Index


• Census Records
   
• Town Directories
   


• Societies, Libraries and Museums in Somerset County NJ
  


• Maps, Statistics, Democraphics
  • Maps of New Jersey

• Newspaper: Star Ledger
   
• Somerset County Chamber of Commerce
  360 Grove St
  Bridgewater NJ 08807
  (908)218-4300
  
  
• New Jersey's Great Northwest Skylands
   
• Somerset County Historic & Tourism Sites

• New to Genealogy?
  If you are brand new to family trees and history research, perhaps you should visit these web sites first.
  • Guide to Basic Genealogy (from USGenWeb)
     
  • NJGenWeb Research Section (for New Jersey-specific sources)
     
  • Other NJGenWeb County Web Sites (for research in other counties of New Jersey)
     
  • Also See the USGenWeb Archives for information specific to Somerset County NJ
    

• Archives & Projects
  • USGenWeb Archives - for Somerset Co. NJ including bibles, cemetery records, census records, deeds and land records, wills/estate records, military records, vital records. Statewide-archives are found here.
     
  • Tombstone Project for Somerset County NJ
     
  • All other USGenWeb Projects
    

• Somerset County Clerk
  P.O. Box 3000
  Somerville, NJ 08876-1262
  (908) 231-7006 (general information)
  • Land Recordings
  • Veterans Discharge
  • Naturalization (Petition of Intent for Naturalization, from 1830 through 1988)
     
• U.S. Department of Justice
  Immigration & Naturalization Service
  970 Broad Street
  Newark, NJ 07102
  Phone: (800) 375-5283
  Forms Only: (800) 870-3676
  www.uscis.gov

• Mailing/Email Lists (aka Listservers) (NOT FUNCTIONAL as of Feb 20 2018)
• Somerset County NJ Genealogy Mailing List (Rootsweb) | Search the List Archives
• New Jersey Genealogy Mailing Lists (Rootsweb)
  
• Message Boards / Queries
• Somerset County NJ Message Board on Rootsweb (free)
• New Jersey Message Boards on Rootsweb (free)

LOOKUPS FOR SOMERSET COUNTY NEW JERSEY
(UPDATED May 2007)

Please follow these guidelines when requesting a look-up.

1. Put name of county and LOOKUP in caps in subject of message. This will ensure that your request is not accidentally overlooked or deleted.
2. Put name of book or type of information you are requesting the lookup from in the first line of the message. Many of these wonderful volunteers have more than one book or CD and need to know what you are looking for in order to try to help you.
3. Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names. Asking for ALL the marriages on a surname of Brown or Jones or Smith will probably be ignored or request denied.
4. Don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time and trouble.
5. IF you have a resource on SOMERSET COUNTY New Jersey, and you are willing to offer a FREE look-up service by email, please contact me at the along with your name, email address, and books/documents/databases where you are offering to look up information.

>>> Irene Smith has offered to do lookups from the following sources

• NJ Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. in the office of the Secretary of the State, prior to 1901
• State of New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. prior to 1901, 3 volumes, 21 counties.
• Calendar of NJ Wills (abstracts 1670-1785, 1791-1809, 1814-1817)
• Archives of the State of New Jersey, newspaper extracts (1751-1755, 1766-1767, 1772-1773, 1778-1780)
• New Jersey Patents and Deeds 1664-1703
• Genealogies of New Jersey Families (two volumes, compiled from Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey)
• New Jersey Marriage Records by William Nelson 1665-1800
• New Jersey in 1793 (militia census)
• South Jersey Church Records by Jeanine Hammell (volume 1 only)
• Early Church Records of Burlington County, by Charlotte Meldrum, 3 volumes (Quaker Records)
• Marriage records by H.Stanley Craig (counties, Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, also South Jersey Marriages)
• Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, New Jersey
• New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes by William Nelson
• Salem Wills (abstracts 1804-1860)
• American Marriage Records Before 1699 by William M Clemens
• Census lookups, statewide

>>> Annette Garkowski has volunteered to do lookups or take digital photography
       in the Hillsborough, Somerset County area.