Passaic County, New Jersey Genealogy

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Parent County

 * 1837, created from Bergen and Essex counties.

Boundary Changes

 * 1907, part back to Essex County.

Neighboring Counties
Bergen | Essex | Morris | Sussex | New York counties: Orange | Rockland

Cemeteries

 * Findagrave-- List of Cemeteries for Passaic County
 * Findagrave -- Map of Cemeteries for Passaic County
 * Passaic County Cemeteries -- Rootsweb
 * Passaic County Cemeteries -- GenWeb

Maps

 * Map of Townships in Passaic County
 * Outline of Passaic County over Google Map -- Home Town Locator

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. (.) 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

Societies and Libraries

 * The Passaic County Historical Society
 * The Passaic County Historical Society Genealogy Club

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Passaic 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.
 * Passaic County US GenWeb Project
 * Passaic County Gen Web Archives
 * Passaic County Historical Society Genealogy Club On-line Resources
 * ancestry.com -- Search Passaic County Sources ($ ancestry.com subscription required)
 * |NJ|Passaic&xz=earth Live Roots -- Passaic County Links