Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
Archibald Stevens
Alexander Library
Special Collections and University Archives
169 College Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Telephone 732-932-7510
Notes About the
Archibald Stevens Alexander Library
The Alexander Library web site states,
"The genealogical holdings provide one of the
state's richest sources of information on New Jersey
family history. The bulk of the records have been
deposited by the Genealogical Society of New Jersey and
the New Jersey State Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. The Rutgers genealogical collection
is also significant. Most frequently used are cemetery
inscriptions, family Bible records and extensive notes
and compilations by professional genealogists, many of
whom have spent a lifetime studying the state's early
families, both prominent and obscure."
The researcher may view a less detailed description of
the genealogical materials available in the Alexander
Library at the Special Collections site below, but there
is no data online, and materials do not leave the library.
Researchers can post general reference questions by e-mail.
One will have to personally visit the library, have a
friend go, or hire a researcher to access these materials
in a meaningful way.
Special Collections and University
Archives
at http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/spcol/spcol.htm
Because the Special
Collections' online offering suffers from its parvitude,
a brief outline is provided here for some of the holdings.
Genealogical Society of
New Jersey
from an Archibald Stevens Alexander Library bulletin
- Cemetery Records
- New Jersey Cemetery Records
- Transcribed inscriptions from
over 800 cemeteries
- Master File of New Jersey Gravestone
Inscriptions
- 16 file drawers of cards with
transcribed inscriptions
- Family Records
- Bible and Family Records
- Over 5,250 records, primarily pre-1850
- Emigrant Register
- Data on NJ residents who
emigrated from NJ
- Genealogical Society of New Jersey
General Collection
- Miscellaneous family notes,
compilations, and correspondence
- Helen P. Alleman/Patricia A. Weibezahl
Collection
- Materials on Families in
northwestern New Jersey
- Warren P. Coon Collection
- Families of Sussex and Warren
Counties
- John P. Dornan Collection
- Families of southern New Jersey
- incomplete abstracts of Quaker
meeting records
- D. Stanton Hammond Collection
- excerpts primarily from 19th
century records (Paterson,
Passaic Co.)
- Esther Serviss Collection
- Materials on central NJ families
- Albert L. Stokes Collection
- Correspondence on over 50
Middlesex Co. families
- Collections on Specific Families
- Berrien, Bloomfield, Drake,
Gulick, Mead, Meeker, Selover,
Van Duyn
New Jersey State Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
- DAR State Library
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- County Marriage Records
- Will Abstracts
Special Collections
- Family Records
- RUL Family Records Collection
- RUL Genealogical Collection
- Charles Carroll Gardner Collection
- notes on Essex, Union and Morris
Co. Families early 1800’s
- James A. Murray Collection
- materials on the Hart Family and
allied lines
- Family and Personal Papers
- Church and Synagogue Records
- Local Government Record
- records are most extensive for Middlesex
County
- State Tax Records
- New Jersey Tax Ratables
- microfilmed by county and place
- Census Records
- US Census for New Jersey Mortality
Schedules
- 1850 - 1880 at ten year intervals
- Newspaper Extracts of Vital Statistics
- New Brunswick newspaper extracts 1795-1865
incomplete
University Archives
- Biographical Files
Rutgers alumni pre-1956
Alexander Library
- Microfilms
- New Jersey Census Records
- US Census for New Jersey
- State Census for New Jersey
- New Jersey County Records
- Burlington and Middlesex Counties:
Probate Records
- Maryland County Records
- Kent County: Land Records and Probate
Records
- Connecticut Town Records
- Danbury: Probate Packets
- Danbury: Probate Registers
- Danbury: Deed Books
- Fairfield: Deed Books and Indexes
- Fairfield: Probate Packets
- Fairfield: Probate Registers
- Newtown: Deed Books
- Newtown: Probate Registers
- Norwalk: Probate Registers
- Stafford: Probate Packets
- Stamford: Probate Registers
- Stratford: Probate Registers
- Windham: Probate Registers
Selected Printed Sources
- Genealogical Research Guides and Dictionaries
- Compiled Genealogies
- Genealogical Magazines and Indexes
- Biographical Sources
- County and Local Histories
- Newspaper Bibliographies
- Geographical Aids
- Immigration Lists and Indexes
- Naturalization Records
- Military Service and Pension Records
- Marriage Records
- Family Bible Records
- Church Records and Histories
- Censuses and Census Indexes
- City and County Directories
- Land Records
- Tax Records
- Probate Records
- Cemetery Guides
- Directories of Historical Organizations
- Directories of Manuscript Repositories
- Directories of County Records Offices
- Guides to Other Genealogical Collections
Microfilmed City
Directories
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