Warren County, New Jersey Genealogy

United States New Jersey  Warren County

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.

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
For a list of record loss in New Jersey counties see: New Jersey Counties with Burned Courthouses

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 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 — images

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.

Warren County, New Jersey Web Sites

 * 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, New Jersey Neighboring Counties



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