Essex County Vital Records

Here is a listing of the repositories to contact for vital records (birth, marriage, death) for Essex County, New Jersey and their location.

There are no state vital statistics records prior to May 1, 1848.

back to the listing of the availability of vital records


NJ State Archives
225 West State Street-Level 2 
Department of State Building 
P.O. Box 307 
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307

Search Unit 
NJ State Dept of Health
CN370 
Trenton, NJ 
08625-0370

Superior Court of NJ 
Records Management Center 
171 Jersey Street 
CN 967 
Trenton, NJ 08625

National Archives and Records Administration
7th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 
Washington, DC 20408
NARA Archival Information Locator

Rutgers, Archibald S. Alexander Library 
Special Collections/University Archives 
Rutgers, The State University of
New Jersey 
169 College Ave. 
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163

Morristown Free Public Library
1 Miller Road
Morristown, NJ 07960 
973-538-6161

Essex County Hall of Records (County Clerk)
465 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd.
Newark, New Jersey 07102
973-621-5000