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Union County Offices
Each Community page includes the address for vital records for that particular municipality at the top of the page.
- Union County Administrative Offices, 10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, NJ 07207, 908-527-4100
- Union County Courthouse, 2 Broad St., Elizabeth, NJ 07207, 908-527-4966
- Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, 633 Pearl St., Elizabeth, NJ 07202, 908-558-2550
Union County Information
- Books & Libraries
- Censuses of New Jersey
- Census Schedule (Day and Series)
- Newspapers
- Post Offices
- Timeline
State Information
For the most current information (including where to write for vital records), visit the official county and state web sites listed below.
Read "New Jersey Vital Records: What? How? Where?" to find out what records are available from NJ Dept. of Health and the NJ State Archives, both in-person and through the mail.
- State of New Jersey official site
- New Jersey Dept. of Health, Vital Statistics Registration, PO Box 370, Trenton, NJ 08625-0370; 609-292-4087 (vital records from 1901 on)
- New Jersey State Archives, NJ Dept. of State, 225 W State St, PO Box 307, Trenton, NJ 08625-0307; 609-292-6260; searchable catalog.
- Clerk of the Superior Court, Hughes Justice Complex, PO Box 971, Trenton, NJ 08625 (wills after 1900)
- New Jersey Courts official site
- State Board of Mortuary Science, 124 Halsey St., Newark, NJ 07102, 973-504-6425
- New Jersey Travel & Tourism
History & Genealogy
Check each Community for other libraries, societies, and museums.
- Union County Historical Society, 116 E. 4th Ave., Roselle, NJ 07203, 908-245-9010
- Genealogical Society of New Jersey
- New Jersey Historical Society
- New Jersey State Society: Daughters of the American Revolution
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Crane's Ford Chapter, Cranford, NJ
- Descendants of Founders of New Jersey
- Hereditary Society Community of the United States
- See also Books page for library collections and online catalogs.
Other New Jersey Resources
Check each Community for other links.
- NJGenWeb Research
- 1872 Atlas of New Jersey by FW Beers
- Rutgers' Historical Maps of New Jersey
- Rutgers' Union county Maps
- Map of Essex County, New Jersey with the names of property holders &c. from actual surveys by J.C. Sidney (1850)
- Guide to City Directories of New Jersey in the NJ State Library (PDF)
- NJ Funeral Homes Online
- NJ Churchscape for Union county
- Union County Catholic Church Archives (Newark Archdiocese) at Seton Hall University
- Methodist Church Archives, Drew University, Madison, NJ 07940, 973-408-3000
- NJ.com: Everything Jersey (newspapers, etc.)
- Union News Daily (newspapers)
- New Jersey Digital Highway
- Revolutionary War New Jersey: a photographic field guide
- Hidden New Jersey (blog)
- jerseyrootsgenealogy: A Garden State Journey in Genealogy (blog)
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