Transcribed genealogy records from churches in the State of New Jersey. Researchers can search these records by text and can browse digital images. The collection page contains a complete list of all congregations available, including waypoint links to images from each church.
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol 121 (1990) no. 2: 65-71; no. 3: 157-161; no. 4: 205-211.
Henry Hoff, NYG&B Record, vol. 136, no. 2 (2005): 83-95.
From the founding of New Netherland, to the peak of immigration through Ellis Island, and into the modern age, the diverse people and colorful history of Hudson County, New Jersey, have been indelibly linked to New York.
Among the larger manuscript holdings of The NYG&B Library is the Innes Getty Collection.
Between 1913 and 1921, Royden Woodward Vosburgh (1875-1931) transcribed for The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society records of some 94 New York State Protestant churches, in 104 volumes.
As anyone who has worked on colonial New York or New Jersey families can tell you, researching families whose baptisms, marriages and burials occur in Dutch Reformed Church records can be quite rewarding.
Rutgers University’s legendary archivist Donald A. Sinclair, for whom the university’s New Jersey collection is named, once remarked after using the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library,that it is a veritable “treasure trove”. .
In 1858 Arizona’s first newspaper was published. With the exception of the period between 1861 and 1864, newspapers have chronicled the events there since that time.