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
- Union County Courthouse
- Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs
Union County Information
Pages within this site:
- 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 websites listed below.
Read “New Jersey Vital Records: What? How? Where?” (updated 2018) 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
- New Jersey State Archives and searchable catalog
- New Jersey State Library: Digital Jerseyana Collection
- New Jersey State Library: New Jersey State Publications Digital Library
- New Jersey State Library: Genealogy resources
- Clerk of the Superior Court (wills)
- New Jersey Courts official site
- State Board of Mortuary Science
- New Jersey Historic Preservation Office
- Union County Clerk Online Public Land Records
- New Jersey Travel & Tourism
History & Genealogy
Check each Community for other libraries, societies, and museums.
- Union County Historical Society New Jersey
- 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
- New Jersey Documentary Treasures
- NJ Historic Documents
- Newspapers
- 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.
- 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
- 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)