New Jersey Compiled Genealogies: Difference between revisions

*''Collection of Essex County, New Jersey Families, 1600-1900'' (on 70 Family History Library films beginning with 849448). The records are alphabetical.

'''''Nicholson Collection: ca 1690-1900''.''' This collection of documented family group records prepared by Anne Lea Nicholson was filmed in 1987 and is at the Gloucester County Historical Society and at the Family History Library (on 22 Family History Library films beginning with 1491818). It is one of the first sources that should be checked for ancestors in Gloucester, Salem, Burlington, Camden, and Cumberland counties and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.  

'''John Pickens ''Dornan's Collection Family File''.''' This two-part collection includes alphabetically arranged family folders and handwritten family group records of Quakers and other families of South Jersey. It is at the Rutgers University Library and on microfilm at the Family History Library (on 37 Family History Library films beginning with 851703; and on 33 films beginning with 849558). There is a surname card index on Family History Library film 854115 (A-Kuhl; skips to Personette and continues to Taylor; film 854116, Peter Taylor - Thacker; returns to Lacey and continues to Perry; Tharp-Zimmerman and topics file.) The collection was filmed in 1970-1971.  

'''''The Gloucester County Historical Society's Historical and Genealogical Files, 1600s-1900s''.''' This collection of about 3,000 alphabetized family folders was microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1976 (FHL films 1005031-64) and has material about hundreds of South Jersey families. An earlier version of this collection was microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1971 (Family History Library films 850326-29). The earlier version is less comprehensive but has material not found in the more recent filming.  

'''''Elias Boudinot Stockton's Collection.''''' The ''Stockton Collection'' is alphabetical and has about 75,000 cards and 1,500 file folders for New Jersey and some New York families. It is at the New Jersey Historical Society Library and at the Family History Library (on 44 Family History Library films beginning with 940610). Films 941111-12 have three-by-five-inch cards for individuals in several series for different states. It was filmed in 1973.  

'''Gilbert Cope's ''Collection of Family Data''.''' This collection, compiled by a prominent Quaker genealogist, is important for Quakers and others who lived in southeastern Pennsylvania and Burlington, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem counties in New Jersey. It was microfilmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1966 (Family History Library films 517003-78).  

'''''Genealogical Society of New Jersey's Genealogical Collection'''.'' This is an alphabetical collection of newspaper clippings and family histories at Rutgers University Library (Family History Library films 854126-30 items 1-3). It was filmed in 1971.