LOOKUPS FOR
CAPE MAY COUNTY NEW JERSEY
(UPDATED June 2007)
Please follow
these guidelines when requesting a look-up.
* 1. Put name
of county and LOOKUP in caps in subject of message. This will ensure
that your request is not accidentally overlooked or deleted.
* 2. Put name of book or type of information you are requesting
the lookup from in the first line of the message. Many of these
wonderful volunteers have more than one book or CD and need to know
what you are looking for in order to try to help you.
* 3. Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names. Asking for ALL
the marriages on a surname of Brown or Jones or Smith will probably
be ignored or request denied.
* 4. Don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time and trouble.
* 5. IF you have a resource on CAPE MAY COUNTY New Jersey, and you
are willing to offer a FREE look-up service by email, please contact
me at the along with your name, email address, and books/documents/databases
where you are offering to look up information.
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Irene Smith has offered to
do lookups from the following sources
-- NJ Index
of Wills, Inventories, Etc. in the office of the Secretary of the
State, prior to 1901
-- State of New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc. prior to
1901, 3 volumes, 21 counties.
-- Calendar of NJ Wills (abstracts 1670-1785, 1791-1809, 1814-1817)
-- Archives of the State of New Jersey, newspaper extracts (1751-1755,
1766-1767, 1772-1773, 1778-1780)
-- New Jersey Patents and Deeds 1664-1703
-- Genealogies of New Jersey Families (two volumes, compiled from
Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey)
-- New Jersey Marriage Records by William Nelson 1665-1800
-- New Jersey in 1793 (militia census)
-- South Jersey Church Records by Jeanine Hammell (volume 1 only)
-- Early Church Records of Burlington County, by Charlotte Meldrum,
3 volumes (quaker records)
-- Marriage records by H.Stanley Craig (counties, Atlantic, Burlington,
Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, also South Jersey Marriages)
-- Records of the Reformed Dutch Churches of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh,
New Jersey
-- New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes by William Nelson
-- Salem Wills (abstracts 1804-1860)
-- American Marriage Records Before 1699 by William M Clemens
-- Census lookups, statewide
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The following is JUST A sampling (i.e. only a partial list) of publications
available FREE, through HeritageQuest. Simply contact your local
library to see if they have a subscription (many libraries do).
If yes, you can access this at the library. Simply search for "Somerset
County" under the PLACE search. The following (and more) will
show up. Some county and local libraries allow you to access this
from your home--ask your local librarian about this. [Once using
HeritageQuest, search on "Cape May NJ" or "Cape May
County NJ" or "Cape May" for a long list.
-- A book of
maps of Cape May, 1610-1817, by Horace Gardiner Richards, Cape May,
NJ: Cape May Geographic Society, 1954
-- Cape May Spray, by Charles Tomlin, Philadelphia: Bradley Brothers,
1913
-- An historical tour of Cape May County, New Jersey, by Julius
Way; Sea Isle City, N.J.: Atlantic Printing and Publishing Co.,
1930
-- Cape May meeting: minutes, U.S., 1900
-- The history of Cape May County, New Jersey, from the aboriginal
times to the present day; Cape May City, N.J.; Lewis T. Stevens,
1897
--A history of the First Presbyterian Church, Cape May, New Jersey,
1851-1951 by Charlotte K. Stevens; Cape May N.J.; 1951
-- Inscriptions from Cape May County: typescript by Emma C. Steelman;
1910
-- Noteworthy trees of Cape May County, New Jersey, by Robert Crozer
Alexander; Cape May, N.J.: Cape May Geographic Society, 1948
-- Some old houses of Cape May County, New Jersey, by Helen Way
Fitzpatrick, 1951
-- Cape May County records; marriages from Liber A of deeds and
miscellaneous records, printed marriage licenses, archives of New
JErsey, Book A of marriages, and Liber B of marriages, by H. Stanley
Craig, Tuckahoe, N.J.; Herald Print, 1900
-- Sketch of the early history of Cape May County, to accompany
the geological report of the state of New Jersey for said county,
by Maurice Beesley; Trenton NJ; 1857
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