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Union County, New Jersey
Map
Location in the state of New Jersey
Location of New Jersey in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	1857
County Seat	Elizabeth
Courthouse
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Address	Union County Courthouse 2 Broad Street Elizabeth, NJ 07207-2204 Phone: (908) 527-4966 Union County Website

County Courthouse

Union County Courthouse
2 Broad Street
Elizabeth, NJ 07207-2204
Phone: 908.527.4966

County Clerk has land records from 1857 and
military discharge records from 1941.
Clerk Superior Court has divorce records
from 1848 and court records.
County Surrogate has probate
records from 1857.
Town Clerks have birth and death records. ^[1]

History

Parent County

• 9 March 1857, created from Essex County. ^[1]

Boundary Changes

• 1860, received part of Woodbridge twp., Middlesex County as part of Rahway twp.
• 1871, Essex County boundary clarified
• 1871, Plainfield boundary with Piscataway twp. of Middlesex County changed
• 1876, boundaries with Essex and Somerset counties clarified
• 1882, Essex County boundary clarified and again in 1892
• 1891, part of Millburn twp., Essex County to Springfield twp. and returned in 1958.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Neighboring Counties

Essex | Hudson | Middlesex | Morris | Somerset | Richmond (Staten Island) county, New York

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Court

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

• Goodwin, Aaron. "The Elizabeth-Town Associates: Signatures on the Original Answer, 1751," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 138, No. 3 (Jul. 2007):189-198. Digital version at New York Family History ($); FHL Book 974.7 B2n v. 138.

Newspapers

Courtesy of the Plainfield Public Library:

• Courier News Obituary Index: mid-1920s-mid-1980s

Probate

Obtaining Copies of County Probate Records

Copies of recorded probate records and the estate files can be obtained from the surrogate's offices for a fee. Addresses of surrogate's offices are found in:

• Eichholz, Alice, Editor. Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. Revised Edition. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1992. (Family History Library book 973 D27rb 1992.) Explains state-by-state history, vital records, census, background sources, periodicals, archives, libraries, societies, maps, land, probate, court, tax, cemetery, church, and military records. Includes county boundary map and table which shows when each county was created and the parent counties.

In addition, copies of the original wills, administrations, inventories, and guardianships sent to Trenton since 1901 can be ordered from:

Clerk of the Superior Court

Records Information Center

P.O. Box 967

Trenton, NJ 08625-0967

Telephone: 609-292-4978

Fax: 609-777-0094

Internet: http://www.answers.com/topic/new-jersey-superior-court

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Public Libraries

Plainfield Public Library
800 Park Avenue
Plainfield, NJ 07060
Telephone: 908-757-1111
The Local History Department offers newspapers, city directories, local histories, church records, biographies, and more.

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Scotch Plains New Jersey Family History Center

Web Sites

• USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
• Family History Library Catalog

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Union County, New Jersey page 465, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.