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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 - Headquarters Court House Annex 199 Hardwick St. Belvidere, NJ 07823 (908) 475-6322	Southwest Branch 1502 Route 57, Washington, NJ 07882 (908) 689-7922
Catherine Dickson Hofman Branch 4 Lambert Road, Blairstown, NJ 07825 (908) 362-8335	Northeast Branch 63 US Hwy. 46, Hackettstown, NJ 07840 (908) 813-3858
Alpha Library East Boulevard and Sampson Avenue Alpha, NJ 08865 (908) 454-1445	Belvidere Public Library 301 Second Street Belvidere, NJ 07823 (908) 475-3941
Centenary College Library 400 Jefferson Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840-2100 (908) 852-1400	Hackettstown Public Library 110 Church Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840 (908) 852-4936
Oxford Public Library Washington Avenue Oxford, NJ 07863 (908) 453-2625	Phillipsburg Free Public Library 200 Frost Avenue Phillipsburg, NJ 08865 (908) 454-3712
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.
Washington Public Library 20 West Carlton Avenue Washington, NJ 07882 (908) 689-0201

Genealogical and Historical Societies

Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society PO Box 313 Belvidere, NJ 07823 Museum located at 313 Mansfield Street, Belvidere (908) 475-4246 Books on Warren County and the surrounding area, cemeteries and Washington Star newspaper articles.	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 106 Church Street Hackettstown, NJ 07840-2206 (908) 852-8797 Group Page
Hardwick Township Historical Society Roberta Dodd, president, at 479-1964 or Betty Jane Lindsay at (908) 362-9579 Meetings held in township municipal building, 40 Spring Valley Rd., Hardwick, at 7:30 p.m.	Hope Historical Society High Street PO Box 52 Hope, NJ 07844 Meetings 7:30 p.m. in the Museum Building, High Street, Hope.
Oxford Historical Society PO Box 277 Oxford, NJ 07863 (908) 453-3142 Meetings: Held in the Oxford Municipal Building, 11 Green St., Oxford, 7:30 p.m.	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.	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.
Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission c/o Shippen Manor 8 Belvidere Ave. Oxford, NJ 07863 (908) 453-4381 or email: wcchc@nac.net Meetings at Shippen Manor.	Washington Historical Society c/o Washington Public Library 20 W. Carlton Ave. Washington, NJ 07882-1202 Meetings at the Washington Public Library.
White Township Historical Society Route 519, Box 555 A 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

Historic Preservation Commissions

Greenwich Preservation Commission Meets the first Thursday of the month, 7:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building, 321 Greenwich St., Stewartsville.	Knowlton Township Historic Preservation Meets on the third Monday at 7:30 p.m., Municipal Building, 628 Rt. 94, Columbia. For info call (908) 496-4816.
Harmony Township Historic Preservation Meetings begin at 6:15 p.m. every second Monday of the month at the Harmony Township Municipal Building. The Commission is working to preserve the local cultural, historical, and architectural heritage of Harmony Township. For info call (908) 475-2334.	Pohatcong Historic Commission Meets the fourth Wednesday of each month, 7:30 p.m., at the Municipal Building, 50 Municipal Drive, Phillipsburg. For info, call (908) 995-4059.
Washington Township Historic Preservation Meets on the third Monday at 7:30 p.m., the Robert Rush Memorial Log Cabin, Mine Hill Road, Washington Township. For info, call (908) 689-7200.

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

FamilySearch  Search for records

Rootsweb.com  Search for records