New Jersey Minority Records online include New Jersey slave records, Freedmen records, African American records, Jewish records, Native American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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New Jersey Immigration Records online
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- Anc$ – Ancestry – fee site
- MH$ – MyHeritage – fee site
- AC – Augustana College
- AG – AfriGeneas
- CUNY – City University of New York
- GTHG – Genealogy Trails History Group
- HT – HathiTrust
- IA – Internet Archive
- MCA – Monmouth County Archives
- NJDH – New Jersey Digital Highway
- NJSA – New Jersey State Archives
- NL – Native Languages
- RU – Rutgers University
- RW – RootsWeb
- SR – SearchRoots
- UCI – University of California, Irvine
- USGenNet – USGenNet
- WJHP – West Jersey History Project
New Jersey Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American)
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal)
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American), at FS (NOT in Discover Freedmen searches)
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) (NOT in Discover Freedmen searches)
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872, at FS (NOT in Discover Freedmen searches)
US – African American – U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – US Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database, at NPS
US – African American – Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, at FS
US – African American – The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences, at UCI
US – African American – African American Griots, at RW
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Minority Records – Ethnic at US Genealogy Records Online at MyHeritage, at MH$
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
New Jersey Minority Records Online at the state level
New Jersey – African American – Baltimore, slavery, and constitutional history, at FS
New Jersey – African American – New Jersey, 1850 federal census: [population and slave schedules], at FS
New Jersey – African American – Northeast Slavey Records Index (NESRI), at CUNY
New Jersey – African American – Records relating to Slaves and Children of Slaves – County clerks were required by law to record slave manumissions (freedom papers) beginning in 1786. The “Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery” in 1804 required the recording of births of children of slave mothers. The State Archives’ holdings of slave-related filings vary depending on the county. Additional records may be available in county clerks’ offices., at NJSA
New Jersey – African American – Records of Slavery, at NJDH
New Jersey – African American – Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of New Jersey relative to the manumission of Negroes and others holden in bondage, at HT
New Jersey – African American – Manumission book of Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1791-1844, at MCC
New Jersey – African American – Slave Births, 1804-1848, at MCA
New Jersey – African American – Slave Manumissions, 1787-1844, at MCA
New Jersey – African American – African-American Related Collections, at NJHS
New Jersey – African American – Transcriptions of early county records of New Jersey, at Anc$
New Jersey – African American – History of the New Jersey A.M.E. Church, at NJSL
New Jersey – African American – African American Oral History Project, at M&MTL
New Jersey – African American – African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey
New Jersey – African American – NJ Chapter of Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society
New Jersey – African American – Records of Slavery – African American, at NJDH
New Jersey – African American – New Jersey Slavery Records – at RU
New Jersey – Dutch American – The Dutch Reformed Church in New Jersey, at NJDH
New Jersey – Dutch American – Dutch Recipes, at NJDH
New Jersey – Hungarian American – American Hungarian Foundation Photos, at NJDH
New Brunswick – Japanese American – Photos including Japanese Americans, at NJDH
New Jersey – Native American Records – Personal names of Indians of New Jersey : being a list of six hundred and fifty such names, gleaned mostly from Indian deeds of the seventeenth century, at FS
New Jersey – Native American Records – Some account of the conduct of the Religious society of Friends towards the Indian tribes in the settlement of the colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: with a brief narrative of their labours for the civilization and Christian instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1844, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – The early Dutch and Swedish settlers of New Jersey, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Early Germans of New Jersey : their history, churches and genealogies ; with maps and illustrations, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Historical sketches of the Swedes on the Delaware, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Huguenot ancestors represented in the membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Huguenot ancestors represented in the membership of the Huguenot Society of New Jersey, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Miscellaneous records pertaining to early Swedish settlements in Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Swedish landmarks in the Delaware Valley, at FS
New Jersey – Minority Records – Swedish settlers in Gloucester County, New Jersey, previous to 1684, at FS
New Jersey – Native Americans – Personal names of Indians of New Jersey: being a list of six hundred and fifty such names, gleaned mostly from Indians deeds of the seventeenth century, at HT
New Jersey – Native Americans – New Jersey Indians, at NL
New Jersey – Native Americans – Native People of New Jersey, at USGenNet
New Jersey – Swedish Americans – A Brief History of the Early Swedes, at SR
New Jersey – Swedish Americans – Name Indexes to Swedish Americans, at AC (CA, IL, IA, TX, WA)$
New Jersey Minority Records Online at the County level
Bergen County – Slavery and Bondage – Manumission of Slaves, 1804-1841, at FS
Essex County – Minorities – Birth Records of Black Children, 1804-1843, at FS
Essex County – Slavery and Bondage – Certificates and Deeds of Manumissions, 1805-1856, at FS
Essex County – Slavery and Bondage – Slave Receipts, 1787-1805, at FS
Gloucester County – Minorities – Some Early Finns and Swedes in Gloucester County, New Jersey, at FS
Gloucester County – Swedish Americans – A Brief History of the Early Swedes, at SR
Gloucester County – Slavery and Bondage – Gloucester County Slavery Records, at WJHP
Gloucester County – Slavery and Bondage – Minutes of the Gloucester County Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, at WJHP
Sussex County – Slavery and Bondage – Births of Slaves, 1801-1835, at FS
Sussex County – Slavery and Bondage – Manumissions of Slaves, 1802-1838, at FS
New Jersey Minority Records Online at the City level
New Brunswick – Minorities – The Germans in New Brunswick, New Jersey : the Record of the Five Hundred and Forty Male Immigrants from Germany to New Brunswick, N. J., and Vicinity During a Fifty-year Period 1838 to 1888. The Contribution They and Their Descendants Have Made to Their Community, at FS
Trenton – Minorities – Genealogy – A Collection of Genealogical Information of Palankaer-Americans and Related Family Members – 1895 to 2008 : (includes a History of the Donauschwaben in Palanka, Batschka, Austria-Hungary and the Trenton, NJ Area), at FS
Union County – Minorities – Eastern Union : the Development of a Jewish Community, at FS
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