GSBC Extra!
Using the New Jersey Room at the Jersey City Free Public Library for Genealogical Research
Presentation by Cynthia Tosatto Harris
March 2019
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.
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.
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