State, County & Local

New Jersey Department of Health, Vital Records

Mercer County Government Offices


Genealogical & Historical Societies, Libraries & Museums

Camp Olden Civil War Round Table (Facebook Group)
Civil War & Native American Museum
2202 Kuser Road-Hamilton Veterans Park
Hamilton, N.J. 08690
609-585-8900
Hamilton Township Historical Society
2200 Kuser Road
Trenton, NJ 08650
609-585-1686
Central Jersey Genealogical Club
P.O. Box 9903
Hamilton, NJ 08650-1903
Hightstown-East Windsor Historical Society
164 North Main Street
Hightstown, NJ, 08520
609-371-9580
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Family History Center
Alexander Rd. & US Hwy No. 1
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-452-0802
Historical Society of Princeton
158 Nassau St.
Princeton, NJ 08542-7006
609-921-6748
College of New Jersey Library
Hillwood Lakes, CN4700
Trenton, NJ 08650-4700
609-771-2332
Hopewell Valley Historical Society
PO Box 371;
Pennington, NJ 08534
609-737-7751
Ewing Township Historical Preservation Society Library
27 Federal City Road
Ewing, NJ 08638
609-530-1220
Institute for Advanced Study Libraries
Olden Lane
Princeton Township, NJ
609-734-8239
Princeton Public Library
65 Witherspoon Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-924-9529
Mercer County Library Headquarters - New Jersey Room
Darrah Lane @ Business US Route 1
Lawrenceville, NJ
609-882-9246
Princeton University Library
Princeton, NJ 08540
609-258-3180
New Jersey State Library
185 W. State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625-0520
609-292-6274
Trenton Historical Society
P.O. Box 1112
Trenton, NJ 08606-1112
609-989-3111
Rider University Library
Route 206
Lawrence Township, NJ 08648-3099
609-896-5115
Trenton Public Library
120 Academy Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
609-392-7188
Trenton Free Public Library Digital Collections

USGenWeb Projects

The USGenWeb® Project - Proudly Serving Free Genealogy Resources for Over 25 Years

The NJGenWeb Project - Offering genealogical resources relating to New Jersey

The Archives Project - A digital library of contributed transcriptions, documents, images, and photos. Collections include Census Images, Court Cases, Digital Maps, Marriages, Obituaries, Pension, and Special Collections.

The Family Group Sheets Project - A collection of family lineages

The USGenWeb Kidz Project - Help for children or students to learn about genealogy, contains topics for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level researchers. 

The Tombstone Transcription & Photo Project - A collection of transcribed inscriptions from headstones, monuments, and cemetery surveys, and includes cemetery information. The Photo project contains images of headstones, markers, and memorials. 

The US African American GRIOTS Project - Records unique to the “African American Experience”, and curates military, vital, surname, probate records and photos.  


Other Useful Websites

Ellis Island Passenger Search - Search for your ancestors records

Immigrant Ships Transcriber's Guild - Search ship manifest for your ancestor

Trenton Free Public Library Digital Collections - Yearbooks & School Collections

Trenton Historical Society - Yearbook Indexes

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR)  

Sons of the American Revolution 

AncientFaces - Rediscover the people from your past 

Birth Date Calculator - A tool designed to calculate the birth date when the age at death and the date of death are the only facts known

Genealogy Help Blog by Dennis Norbert Partridge

How To Read A Old Documents And Other FAQs 

Library of Congress Digital Collections

David Rumsey Map Collection 

Cornell University Library's Making of America collection at Hathitrust.org