Warren County, New Jersey Genealogy

Warren County, New Jersey ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Guide to genealogy, history, and courthouse sources including birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, wills, deeds and land records, Civil War records, Revolutionary War records, family histories, cemeteries, churches, tax records, newspapers, and obituaries.

New Jersey Online Genealogy Records

Description
Warren County is located in the northwest region of the state. It was created in 1824. Belvidere is the county seat. The county was named for the American Revolutionary War General Joseph Warren (1741–1775), who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Warren County, New Jersey Historical Facts
A Moravian settlement was established at Hope by 1769.

Parent County
Created 20 November 1824, from Sussex County.

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating New Jersey county boundary changes, "Rotating Formation New Jersey County Boundary Maps" (1683-1928) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
There is no known history of courthouse disasters in this county.

Census

 * 1855 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1865 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1895 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
 * 1915 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection

Church Records

 * 1675-1970 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection

List of Churches and Church Parishes


 * FamilySearch Places

Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Land and Property
As is becoming more and more common, the County Clerk's Office of Warren County provides an indexed online database with images on their website. Please see the Public Land Records page there for a link and instructions (login as Guest) for further information. The database appears to include all available land records for the county.

Maps

 * FamilySearch Places: Map of cities and towns in this county - How to Use FS Places

Naturalization and Citizenship

 * 1796-1991 - at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection

Populated Places
For a complete list of populated places, including small neighborhoods and suburbs, visit HomeTown Locator. The following are the most historically and genealogically relevant populated places in this county:

Obtaining Copies of County Probate Records
Copies of recorded probate records and the estate files can be obtained from the surrogate's offices for a fee. Addresses of surrogate's offices are found in:


 * Eichholz, Alice, Editor. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1992. (.) Explains state-by-state history, vital records, census, background sources, periodicals, archives, libraries, societies, maps, land, probate, court, tax, cemetery, church, and military records. Includes county boundary map and table which shows when each county was created and the parent counties.

In addition, copies of the original wills, administrations, inventories, and guardianships sent to Trenton since 1901 can be ordered from:

Clerk of the Superior Court Records Information Center P.O. Box 967 Trenton, NJ 08625-0967 Phone: (609) 292-4978 Fax: (609) 777-0094

Online Probate Indexes and Records


 * 1656 - 1999 New Jersey Wills and Probate Records 1656-1999 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1670 – 1760 Calendar of New Jersey Wills 1670-1760 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1670 – 1817 New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817 at Ancestry.com — index and images $
 * 1678 - 1980 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection

Courthouse
Warren County Courthouse 165 County Rd; 519 South Belvidere, NJ 07823 Phone: (908) 475-6211 Municipal Clerks have birth and death records. County Clerk has marriage and land records from 1825, divorce and court records. County Surrogate has probate records.

Family History Centers

 * Ledgewood New Jersey Family History Center
 * Maplewood New Jersey Family History Center
 * Morristown New Jersey Family History Center
 * Nazareth Pennsylvania Family History Center
 * Sparta New Jersey Family History Center


 * Morris County Library - an affiliate library
 * Morristown & Morris Township Library - an affiliate library
 * Mt. Olive Public Library - an affiliate library
 * Washington Township Public Library - an affiliate library

Societies
Warren County Historical and Genealogical Society 313 Mansfield Street PO Box 313 Belvidere, NJ 07823 Telephone: 908-475-4246 Website

Warren County Cultural and Heritage Commission 8 Belvidere Avenue Oxford, NJ 07863 Telephone: 908-453-4381 E-mail:[mailto:manor@wcchc.org r@wcchc.org] Website

Hackettstown Historical Society 106 Church St. Hackettstown NJ Telephone: 908-852-8797 Website

Phillipsburg Area Historical Society 675 Corliss Avenue Phillpsburg, New Jersey 08865 Website

Birth

 * 1901-1903, at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection

Marriage
Online Marriage Indexes and Records

1606-1981 - New Jersey, United States Marriages at Findmypast — index $


 * 1670-1980 - at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
 * 1930-1938 - at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection

Death

 * 1901-1903 - at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection
 * 1901-2017 New Jersey, U.S., Death Index, 1901-2017 at Ancestry - index ($)

Warren County, New Jersey Websites

 * Warren County NHGenWeb
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Warren County, New Jersey History, Records, Facts and Genealogy (Familytree101)
 * Warren County NJ Genealogy

Warren County, New Jersey Neighboring Counties



 * Hunterdon
 * Morris
 * Sussex
 * Bucks, Pennsylvania
 * Monroe, Pennsylvania
 * Northampton, Pennsylvania