Rutgers University Alexander Library

United States New Jersey  Middlesex  Archives and Libraries  

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 * 169 College Ave
 * New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163

Telephone: 848-932-7851, or Sp. Coll. 848-932-7006 Fax: 732-932-1101

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 * Legacy Catalog searchable by keywords, author, title, and subject among others.

Collection Description
Consider this your best, first-stop for New Jersey research.

Special Collections include manuscripts, letters, rare books, New Jersey town records, diaries since 1746, historical maps, newspapers, and the University archives.

The regular collection includes material from the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, and the Daughters of the American Revolution. It also holds biographies, histories, genealogies, family folders, Bibles, census, special indexes, cemetery transcripts, and professional genealogists' notes on New Jersey families.

Tips

 * Information for Visitors access, borrowing, government documents, hours and directions, library catalog and other databases, libraries and collections at Rutgers, other services, and users with disabilities.

Guides

 * Sinclair, Donald A., Compiler. A Guide to Manuscript Diaries and Journals in the Special Collections Department, Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Library, 1980. ; Not available at the Family History Library.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at New York City, censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, passenger indexes, New York port and shipping, naturalizations, inventions. Federal court and agency records of New Jersey, and New York.
 * National Archives at Philadelphia records of federal agencies and courts for Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, censuses, ships lists, naturalizations, and military records.
 * New York Public Library Genealogy Division has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New Jersey and New York censuses, directories, and vital records.

Similar Collections


 * Princeton University Firestone Library a huge manuscript collection with histories and biographies.

Neighboring Collections


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * Repositories in surrounding New Jersey counties: Mercer, Monmouth, Somerset, Union, and in a nearby New York county: Richmond.
 * State Vital Records Office
 * New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, wills 1670-1900, births 1848-1923, marriages and deaths 1848-1940, deeds 1660s-1880s, court records 1680-1850, and NJ state censuses 1855-1915.
 * New Jersey State Library, Trenton, published sources such as genealogies, guides, how-to books, indexes, maps and atlases, church records, local histories, city directories, and periodicals.
 * New Jersey Historical Society Library, Newark, NJ books, censuses, maps, city directories, local histories, vital records, church records, family folders, and indexes to New Jersey family history sources.
 * State Genealogical Society
 * Rowan University Campbell Library Delaware Valley history, and nearly all early Quaker lines in NJ.
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania.
 * Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, has early Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish and other ethinc groups in PA, NJ, DE, and states east of the Mississippi River, Balch Institute passenger arrival lists, huge manuscript collection including many indexes, and Philadelphia neighborhood records.