When:
March 25, 2019 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm America/New York Timezone
2019-03-25T19:00:00-04:00
2019-03-25T21:00:00-04:00
Where:
Ridgewood Public Library
125 N Maple Ave
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Sara Kiefer, Ridgewood Public Library
201-670-5600

GSBC General Meeting + Presentation
Monday, 25 March, 7 PM
Ridgewood Public Library—All Are Welcome

Using the New Jersey Room at the Jersey City Free Public Library for Genealogical Research

Hundreds of years before Ellis Island welcomed millions of immigrants from 1892 to 1954, the village of Bergen, the oldest municipality in New Jersey, was home to some of the earliest European settlers. Since then, Jersey City has welcomed families from around the world. Some spent only a short time there while others settled down for decades, over generations, in the Jersey City and greater Hudson County area.

The New Jersey Room contains collections about New Jersey with an emphasis on Jersey City and Hudson County. The collection, numbering about 20,000 volumes, includes both current and historical information. In addition to books, the New Jersey Room has a complete collection of all published Jersey City/Hoboken city directories dating from 1849 to 1925; an index for the Jersey Journal for the years 1912–1954 and 1969 to the present, a picture collection of over 13,000 images; hundreds of historic and contemporary maps; over 150 periodicals; manuscript collections; and several thousand topical files. A wide array of material—from 17th century handwritten documents to name-indexed Hudson County high school yearbooks (1,450 and counting)—awaits you.

Learn more about this important repository! http://www.jclibrary.org/locations-a-hours/main-library/new-jersey-room

Free and open to the public—all are welcome.


Cynthia Tosatto Harris has worked for the City of Jersey City since she was 21 years old and is still working for the City 45 years later. She was first a public schoolteacher at PS # 14 and 27. A second career began when she became Manager of the New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Free Public Library in 2001.