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Research & Information Links

The Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society offers the following links for your use and help in researching. These are for personal reference and are not intended as an endorsement of any particular Web site or group, nor do we guarantee that all links will remain active. If you have any links that might be of interest to researchers of Hudson County, please send them to:

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Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society Links

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Hudson County Links of Interest

 Jersey City's Roll of Honor: It's Sons who are serving in the Army and Navy during WW I

 Jersey City/Harsimus Cemetery Web Site

 Jersey City Links from RootsWeb

 Hoboken Museum

 Hudson County New Jersey GenWeb Archives

 Hudson County Clerk's Office

 Hudson County Historical Maps courtesy of Rutgers Special Collections and Archives

 History of Jersey City, New Jersey

 Hudson County Division of Tourism

 The "Jedsey Journal" - This project revives a Jersey City based newsletter from the late '50s/early '60s, and is dedicated to John White, Bobby Rey and Badd Ladd

 Sanborn Maps of Hudson County Municipalities from the Princeton University Library - Founded in 1866, the Sanborn Map Company created detailed building maps of cities and towns all across the country, primarily for use by insurance companies. This is the index to digitized maps of Hudson County towns.

 Weehawken Time Machine

HCGHS Member Sites

Honoring Our Ancestors by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak

Jersey City Geney by Ed Calton

Polish Emigrants in Jersey City by Jean Dupon

The Origins Genealogy Project by Joseph Mann

Union City, NJ - Hudson County Genealogy Page by James Miller

Research Sites

 Arlington National Cemetery - Find a Gravesite. iOS, Android, Blackberry mobile apps as well as web search enables veterans, family members and the public to locate gravesites; generate photos of a headstone or monument; and receive directions.

 CensusFinder Links to free census records online

 DeathIndexes.com Directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county.

 Fold3 (formerly Footnote.com) Military records.

 FindaGrave.com Search volunteer contributed grave photos and information and post your own "virtual memorials"

 GeneaWebinars run by Thomas McEntee

 Genealogy Blog Finder by Chris Dunham -- blogs divided into 29 categories

 Gen Gathering. A gathering of researchers and genealogists that "give and take". The spiritual successor to the now defunct Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) site.

 Hudson County Message Board Ancestry/RootsWeb message board for Hudson County, New Jersey

 Irish Lives Remembered Digital Magazine.


 Irish Genealogy News Blog.


 New Jersey State Census for 1885 A free searchable index on FamilySearch.org

 Old Fulton Post Cards Site - Search Over 20,670,000 Old New York State Historical Newspaper Pages.

 Old Weather. "Old Weather: Our Weather’s Past, the Climate’s Future". Digitized Navy, Coast Guard and ship deck logs.

 The Photo Detective - Maureen Taylor


 The New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library The staff of The New Jersey Room can assist you with obituaries, directories and general Hudson County information

 New Jersey State Archives Some searchable databases

 NewspaperArchive.com. Subscription-based access to historical newspapers from around the USA.

 Railroad Retirement Board. Researching family who worked for a railroad after 1936? Try the RRB.

 The Msgr. William Noé Field Archives & Special Collections Center at Seton Hall University - Sacramental Records & Genealogy Resources

 The Photo Detective - Maureen Taylor

Genealogical Clubs and Societies

Afro American Historical & Genealogical Society (NJ Chapter)

The Genealogical Society of New Jersey

The Federation of Genealogical Societies

National Genealogical Society

The German Genealogy Group

Researchers

Jersey Roots Genealogy

Origins Genealogy Services