Archives/Repositories: What Do They Have? How Do I Get It?
New Jersey
- New Jersey State Archives: The home page for the New Jersey Archives. Find out about research in this facility.
- Genealogical Records at the New Jersey State Archives: A PDF document
- The New Jersey Department of Health: Click on "Vital Records" and then "Online Requests" This is an informational page for anyone who wants to send to the New Jersey Archives for vital records. You do not have to be a direct relative, but you do have to know relevant dates.
- Newark Public Library: Selected Materials in the New Jersey Information Center Relative to New Jersey Genealogical Research. Included is an extensive list of the city directories -- some on microfilm. Jewish newspapers are archived.
- State Library in Trenton: Resources for Genealogy and Local History Collection
- Passaic County Clerk's Office: Search for property or naturalization records on line.
- Morristown Library: North Jersey History and Genealogy Center Collections
- New Jersey Probate Offices: A list of links, by county, of the probate/surrogate offices
- Reclaim the Records: Indexes to New Jersey Records.
- New Jersey State Library - and For newspapers
- New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project
- Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township
- Newark Public Library: Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center: The Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center (New Jersey Room) is a research-level collection of materials relating to New Jersey, Essex County and Newark. It includes both historical and current information in these formats: books, newspapers, documents, pictures and archives. Email links for queries are on that page.
- Newark Public Library Inventory of Newspapers Online or Microfilm
- Plainfield Public Library
- Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives
- Professional Genealogists in New Jersey
- New York Public Library: Great resource for many kinds of records. Very cute video about the N.Y. Public Library's Irma and Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy
- National Archives, NYC Branch
- The National Archives: This page is provided for genealogists.
- New York City Records and Information Service: This page describes what is available to genealogists.
- NYC Municipal Archives Online Gallery of over 900,000 images digitized from the Municipal Archives' vast holdings, including photographs, maps, motion-pictures and audio recordings.
- Jewish Genealogical Society of Brooklyn: Getting an image of an Actual Kings And New York County Naturalizations
- Pennsylvania Dept. of Health Death Indices: 1906 -- 1961
- The Joint Distribution Committee
- International Tracing Service archives: Detailed records kept by the Nazis were taken to the German town of Bad Arolsen in Germany. This link is to the on-line search. To see a news video about Bad Arolsen, click on WorldNewsNBC.
- The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center: A national clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath.
- Library of Congress Video: C-SPAN's original feature documentary, The Library of Congress, is a behind-the-scenes look at the national repository, providing the history of the institution, a tour of its iconic Jefferson Building, and glimpses of some of the library's rare book, photo, and map collections. 1 hour, 31 minutes.
- The David Simonsen Archives: Chief Rabbi and Professor David Simonsen (1853-1932) was for more than six decades a central figure in Jewish Copenhagen Hs private library was aquired by The Royal Library in 1932, and the app. 25.000 volumes of Judaica and Hebraica were catalogued. Use Google translate to read the site.
- Chronicling America:
- Bibliography of North American Jewish Community Books: A listing of over 800 books about Jewish life in North American communities that are at Salt Lake City or can be requested on inter-library loan.
- YIVO Archives: On line guide to the YIVO archives, a collection pertaining to Jewish life around the world, focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, with some documents dating from the 14th through 18th centuries.
