Enter a first and/or last name to search New Jersey birth records. This website was created to provide genealogists with access to the New Jersey birth records from a single place. Additional information on how to obtain New Jersey birth certificates is available below.
Birth records contain information about a person's birth, including the date of birth, place of birth, sometimes the names of the mother and father, and even the physician who attended the birth. Birth certificates issued by state and local governments will often include the place of residence, and the mother's maiden name.
This webpage gives you access to all of the online databases containing New Jersey birth records, New Jersey birth ceritificates, New Jersey birth notices, New Jersey birth indexes, and other related New Jersey genealogy records.
Birth records have long been used to help with genealogy research. They are considered to be "primary source" records, because the information is recorded by an eye witness, at the time the birth takes place. The Internet has allowed people to store birth records into various online archives. This has brought access to online birth records much more easier for genealogy researchers.
Newspapers frequently publish notices of births, and in addition to birth certificates, are a popular source of research by genealogists. Newspapers typically do not announce the names of the newborn, but list the sex of the child, the names of the parents, the place and date of birth.
On this page you will find the most comprehensive databases containing birth records of New Jersey. We also suggest searching for "New Jersey birth records" using Google.com, which will yield all such databases.
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How to Obtain New Jersey Birth Certificates
Among the Mid-Atlantic states, New Jersey has the longest continuing run of statewide registration of births, marriages, and deaths, which began in May 1848. The New Jersey State Archives has these records with indexes through 1923 for births and through 1940 for marriages and deaths. Marriages were also to be kept by the county clerks from 1795.
For birth records through 1923 and marriage and death records through 1940, write:
New Jersey State Archives
Division of Archives and Records Management
185 West State Street
CN 307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
For prior records, write to the clerk of the county in question.
Other New Jersey Birth Records Websites
- NJ Dept of Health & Human Services - Vital Statistics
- Westfield, NJ Birth Records Transcriptions
- I Dream of Genealogy - New Jersey Birth Records
- VitalRec - New Jersey Vital Records
Request Birth Certificates Online - VitalChek
- Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates! at Ancestry.com
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