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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. 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 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

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

CensusFinder Links to free census records online

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

Footnote.com Digital records, some free, some for pay

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

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

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

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness Free genealogy research is performed by thousands of volunteers worldwide who donate their time in their local area

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? Try the RRB.

The Pennyslvania Railroad Company Collection at Temple University. Personnel Records held from the Pennsylvania RR.

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

Genealogical Clubs and Societies

The Genealogical Society of New Jersey

The Federation of Genealogical Societies

National Genealogical Society

The German Genealogy Group

Researchers

Origins Genealogy Services