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SPECIAL RESOURCE DOWNLOADS:
> Guide, American Legion Collection, 12-page .pdf (120 K)
> Cemeteries of Camden County, N.J., 10-page .pdf (268 K)
> Manuscripts of the CCHS Library, 148-page .pdf (1.8 Meg)
> Research Aids for CCHS Library, 237-page .pdf (3.3 Meg)
> Place Names of Camden County, 28-page .pdf (396 K)
> Camden County Waterways, 35-page .pdf (454 K)
> Charles S. Boyer Collection, 5-page .pdf (32 K)
Library Holdings Include:
GENERAL
State histories
County histories (Note: There is an index available to Prowell's History of Camden County)
City/town histories
Church histories
Military histories
RECORD COMPILATIONS
New Jersey Archives, 1st and 2nd Series
New Jersey Index to Wills
Transcriptions of the First Quarter Century Documents of Old Gloucester County, NJ
Transcriptions of the Freeholders First Record Book of Gloucester County, NJ
Transcriptions of the Freeholders Second Record Book of Gloucester County, NJ
Transcriptions of the First Court Records of Gloucester County, NJ
Transcriptions of the Second Court Records of Gloucester County, NJ
Scrapbook of Photographs of Old Burlington County Houses and Meetings
Spanish Influenza Clippings 1918 (From Camden newspapers)
Pennsylvania Archives, Colonial Series
Pennsylvania Archives, 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 7th Series
CARD FILES
WPA Death File - to 1937
Obituary Death File - to 1900, 1940-1941, 1990 to present
Births - varying years
Marriages - varying years
Old Camden Cemetery
Deeds
Wills
Miscellaneous Real Estate Records
Chew Family Genealogy
SOCIETY BULLETINS
New Jersey Historical Society Bulletin 1892-1971
New Jersey Genealogical Society 1937-1993
Camden County Historical Society - all
Vineland Historical Magazine 1917-1957, 1961, 1964-1969, 1976-1989, 1993
Atlantic County Historical Society 1948-1950, 1956-1982
Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy 1931-1949, 1954, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1987
Somerset County Historical Quarterly 1912-1916
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography - all
Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Proceedings/Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 1895-1993
New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1967-Jan 1977
New York Historical Society Quarterly 1892-1979
New York Genealogical and Biographical Bulletin 1888-1890, 1961-1971
Staten Island Historian 1938-1979, 1984-1985
Delaware History 1946-1961
New Jersey Genesis
American Genealogist
Connecticut Nutmegger 1967-1976
YEARBOOKS: HIGH SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY
Camden High School
Woodrow Wilson High School
Pennsauken High School
Collingswood High School
Camden Catholic High School
Haddon Heights High School
Rutgers University, South Jersey
Cathedral Academy
ATLASES
Seaside Directory of New Jersey 1887 (Note: Some communities have plot maps)
Vicinity of Camden, 1907 (G.M. Hopkins)
Philadelphia and Environs Including Southern New Jersey, 1877 (G.M Hopkins)
Camden City, 1877 (G.M. Hopkins)
21st to 28th Wards, Philadelphia, 1875 (G.M. Hopkins)
Burlington County, 1876 (J.D. Scott)
City of Camden, 1886 (Baist)
City of Camden, 1902 (Baist)
Philadelphia, 1910 (G.W. Bromley)
City of Camden Real Estate Atlas, 1927 (Philadelphia Realty Co.)
Cumberland County, 1876 (D.J. Stewart)
Hexamer General Survey, Philadelphia, indexed
POSTCARDS
Collection encompasses all areas of Camden County
VERTICAL FILE
PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
GENEALOGIES
New Jersey and Pennsylvania Families
CITY DIRECTORIES
Camden - Books and microfilm, most years (Note: Some years include surrounding towns)
Philadelphia 1797, 1800, 1808, 1816, 1819, 1829, 1831, 1837, 1839, 1841-1843, 1846-1847, 1849, 1850, 1853-1854, 1856, 1860, 1887, 1891-1895, 1897-1935
Philadelphia Business 1890, 1897
Bridgeton City 1937
Salem County 1949
Woodbury 1950
Bordentown/Burlington/Mount Holly 1868
Burlington County 1945
Trenton 1936, 1946
Atlantic City 1922, 1981
Wildwood 1946
Pitman 1908
Haddon Heights/Barrington 1950
Haddonfield 1961
Haddonfield/Haddon Township/Barrington 1977
TELEPHONE BOOKS
(This is not an inclusive list)
Camden County
Bergen County 1953, 1955, 1959
Burlington County 1955-1957, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1975, 1977-1978, 1984-1987, 1994
Bridgeton/Millville 1963, 1968, 1983, 1984
Cumberland/Salem Counties 1948
AtlanticCity/Cape May 1952, 1955
Gloucester County 1957, 1959-1961, 1964, 1977
Hudson County 1953
North Hudson County 1959
Mercer County 1953-1954, 1958-1959, 1968
Monmouth County 1952, 1958
Ocean County 1958
Passaic County 1953, 1958
Essex County 1956
Salem County 1954-1955, 1958-1959, 1964, 1968
Union/Middlesex/Morris/Somerset Counties 1951
Union/Somerset Counties 1953, 1955-1956
Jersey City/Bayonne/Hoboken 1956, 1959
Newark 1954-1955
Phillipsburg 1959
Hackettstown/Washington 1959
Philadelphia 1940s - 1960s, then scattered volumes
MICROFILM COLLECTIONS
Federal Census, many NJ counties and years
NJ State Census: Camden County 1885, 1895, 1905; Burlington County 1905
Philadelphia Federal Census 1810
Evergreen Cemetery Index
New Camden Cemetery Records
St. John's Episcopal Church Records, Chews Landing
Veterans' Interments (all wars to World War I). Note: Maps that show cemeteries are also available.
Council of Proprietors Records
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Camden 1885, 1891, 1906, 1926
Hexamer Maps, Camden
Salem County Deeds
West Jersey Deeds 1680-1854
Appointment of Postmasters 1789-1832
Miscellaneous Church Records
Miscellaneous Cemetery Records
NEWSPAPERS
(Microfilm and bound volumes - This is not an inclusive list.)
Camden City Newspapers, most years through 1959; Only known collection of Camden Morning Post.
Suburban Newspaper Group, various towns including Merchantville, Delaware Township/Cherry Hill, Audubon, Mt. Ephraim among others
Retrospect 1902-1971
News Chronicle, Moorestown 1953-1967
Haddon Gazette 1937-1975
Beverly Banner 1960s-1970s
Community News 1940s-1950s
Burlington County Daily Enterprise 1940s
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
(A brief sampling)
Browning-Doughten Family Papers, Camden
Thomas H. Dudley Papers, Camden
Richard W. Howell Papers, Camden
Cooper Family Papers
William E. Cross Papers
William John Potts Papers
George Peacock Family Papers, Winslow Township
Jonathan W. Acton Papers, Salem County
Chew Genealogy
Hughes Genealogy
Robert W. Wythes, Camden, World War I Service Record
Abigail Harris, circa 1790, Cumberland County, poetry and letters
List of Officials and Workers at the Emergency Hospital, Camden, Influenza Epidemic 1918
James H. McCarty, Justice of the Peace, Runnemede, NJ 1923-1927
Mary E. Woodward, autograph book, circa 1874
Third Street ME Church, Teachers Roll, 1882-1890
Third Street ME Church, Sabbath School Record 1880-1905 (multiple volumes)
Third Baptist Church, Camden, Church Register 1860-1910
North Baptist Church, 4th and Linden, Camden, Records 1860s-1870s
North Baptist Church, 4th and Linden, Camden, Sunday School Albums, 1890s, 1926
Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, Account Book, 1868-1878
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Camden, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials to 1967
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Stevens above 5th St, Records 1885-1898, in German
First ME Church, 6th and Stevens, Camden, Treasurer's Book, 1935-1938
Tax Records, Gloucester Township, 1841, 1864, 1867-1874
School Records, Gloucester Township
School Records, Winslow Township
School Census, Camden, circa 1872-1900
Naturalization Papers 1850s-1860s, not inclusive, indexed
Junior O.U.A.M., No. 151, Records and Rescue Council, Camden
I.O.O.F., Ariwames Degree Lodge, No.37, Gloucester
Rotary Club, Camden, records include rosters and applications
Camden Equal Suffrage League, Members 1916-1923
Camden Police Beneficial Association, Meeting Minutes 1942-1944
William Penn Hook and Ladder and Steam Co., Records, Camden (Stockton)
T. M. K. Lee Post 5, G.A.R., Post Records, Camden
Lt. W. H. Fenner, 4th Regiment, NJ Volunteers, 1861 Scrapbook and Diary
Newton and Haddonfield Friends Meeting, Women's Minutes, beginning 1707
Inscriptions, Vandegrift Family Burying Ground, Bensalem, Bucks County, PA, copied 1871
IMMIGRATION REFERENCES
Germans to America
Filby's Immigration and Naturalization Lists - all
Famine Immigrants
All standard immigration reference books
ALICE B. DOUGHTEN COLLECTION
CARTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION
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