New Jersey Research Tips
                   by Dorothy Sminkey
                     Fri Jun 26 1992
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     If I were researching early New Jersey history, and wanted to
avail myself of the best one-stop repository of applicable materials,
I would go to the State Library Building in Trenton, New Jersey.
     There, within one modern building, are the State Archives and the
State Library...addresses as follows:
          State of New Jersey
          Department of State
          Division of Archives and Records Management
          Bureau of Archives and Records Preservation
          State Library Building
          185 West State Street, CN-307
          Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0307
               and
          New Jersey State Library
          State Library Building
          185 West State Street, CN-520
          Trenton, New Jersey 08625-0520
     The New Jersey State Library is the published counterpart of the
New Jersey State Archives.  The contained collections include maps,
atlases, genealogies, histories, periodicals, guidebooks, and indexes.
There are also newspaper clipping files, phone books, directories, and
folders of material and correspondence arranged by family name, as
well as microfilms of the federal and state censuses.  The New Jersey
State Library is one of the two depositories for the State's DAR
collection.
     As you can deduce from their holdings, genealogists learn much
by researching in the New Jersey State Library.  I have done so on
several occasions.  The facility is big, but, not crowded.  Access to
the books is permitted...so, one can brouse and come upon "things."
The staff, in a word, is "outstanding."  Most personnel will bend over
backwards to help you.  Desks are conveniently located throughout the
library.  It's quiet and peaceful, there, too.
     The Camden County Historical Society at
         Park Boulevard and Euclid Avenue in
         Camden, New Jersey 08103
              and
the library within the Burlington County College at
                       Pemberton-Browns Mills Road in
                       Pemberton, New Jersey 08068
are two additional organizations that possess much material relating
to early New Jersey history.  I've spent time researching in both
places and obtained "good" data from their extensive collections.

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Date:   Mon Jun 29 1992  09:18:45
From:   Bob Gleason
To:     Dorothy Sminkey
Subj:   New Jersey
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And, Dorothy, don't overlook:

New Jersey Historical Society
230 Broadway
Newark, NJ 07104

(201) 483-3939

Also a very extensive collection on New Jersey History as well as an 
excellent genealogical collection.

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