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Atlantic County, New Jersey
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Location in the state of New Jersey
Location of New Jersey in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	, 1837
County Seat	Mays Landing
Courthouse
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Address	Atlantic County Courthouse 5901 Main Street Mays Landing, NJ 08830-1800 Phone: (609) 625-4011 Atlantic County Website

County Courthouse

Atlantic County Courthouse
5901 Main Street
Mays Landing, NJ 08830-1800
Phone: 609.625.4011

County Clerk has divorce records 1949,
court, land and cemetery records from 1837, and
County probate records. ^[1]

Quick Facts

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• Named for the Atlantic Ocean
• All of what is known today as Atlantic County was once called Egg Harbor Township

Parent County

• 7 February 1837, created from Gloucester County. ^[2]

Boundary Changes

1902: part of Hammonton to Burlington County
1906: coastal boundry established
1938: boundary with Camden and Gloucester counties clarified.

Record Loss

Places/Localities

v • d • e Municipalities and communities of Atlantic County, New Jersey County seat: Mays Landing Cities Absecon | Atlantic City | Brigantine | Corbin City | Egg Harbor City | Estell Manor | Linwood | Margate City | Northfield | Pleasantville | Port Republic | Somers Point | Ventnor City Boroughs Buena | Folsom | Longport Town Hammonton Neighboring Counties Burlington | Camden | Cape May | Cumberland | Gloucester | Ocean Communities Collings Lakes | Dorothy | Elwood | Landisville | Mays Landing | Pomona | Richland | Smithville | Sweetwater

Resources

Cemeteries

• Saint Mary's Cemetery, Buena BillionGraves
• Union Cemetery, Mays Landing BillionGraves

Census

Church

• 1708-1985 - Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $, free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry.com – $; 7,542,774 entries. This database is incomplete for all counties.

Contains the church records of:

• Absecon: First Presbyterian Church of Absecon
• Brigantine: Brigantine Methodist Episcopal Church
• Buena Vista: Richland Methodist Episcopal Church
• Egg Harbor City: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church; Zion Lutheran Church
• Pleasantville: Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church

Court

Gazetteers

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

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 (generally $1 per page). 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

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Atlantic Heritage Center of New Jersey

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
  
• Linwood New Jersey Family History Center (Egg Harbor Township)
  

Web Sites

• The Atlantic County NYGenWeb Project, a member of The NJGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Atlantic County.
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Atlantic County. (Backup site)
• FamilySearch.org Family History Library Catalog for Atlantic County.
  

References