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. If you have any links that might be of interest to researchers of Hudson County, please send them to:
webmaster@HudsonCountyNJGenealogy.org
Hudson County Genealogical & Historical Society Links
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HCGHS Help Center (no research requests)
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
