Dear Kathleen: Please don't misunderstand, and I apolgize for being a little selfish and a little spoiled perhaps, i just had my hopes up , it's been a little frustrating trying to verify things, you see so many people post something on the internet like at ancestry or family search (latter day saints) that aren't proven or verified or don't even have a source and other people just attatch it to their family history. I have spent many years doing genealogical research in Camden and Philadelphia, Ireland and Nova Scotia and i have learned that not every library or historical society is the same, it takes some getting used to when your "new " to one. I do thank you for e mailing me and explaining how your society works and i should have called first , ( i usually do) I will look forward to coming back because i did hear you have a wonderful collection . Thank you again, Sincerely, Teresa.

Teresa, I understand the frustration, I think anyone searching in Hunterdon County has hit the same walls. New Jersey records are so patchwork and I sometimes think that Hunterdon was a libertarian stronghold for many years. They simply didn't understand why registering births and deaths was any business of the government. And of course, land records were even worse, since many people were here renting land from absentee landlords. If you owned the land you might not want to make yourself known to the tax man. I also found in my own research that people saw geography differently in those days before paved roads. The river was a much less formidable barrier to commerce than long muddy roads. I've found that people who lived in northwestern Hunterdon and along the Delaware would often trade with Pennsylvania rather than climb Jugtown Mountain to go to Clinton or even down to the county seat in Flemington. The people who lived south of Stockton seldomly went up the river, and in fact, the highway between Stockton and Frenchtown was not completed until the 1950's. That said, I understand the Easton, Pennsylvania library has an excellent genealogy collection that includes information about northern Hunterdon and Warren counties. The link is www.eastonpl.org. Good luck, Kathleen