Looking for info on great grandmother and tried everywhere online!?

Question

As I said trying to find Birth, Death, Marriage, etc. records (I Have Census info of her) for Cumberland County, NJ which is where she was living. I am in Cape May County, NJ but can't get to the other county library. Will Cape May County Library have it? Tried emailing them w/no reply yet. Tried ancestry.com and every other link out there and need it to be 100% FREE please! Thanks.

Answer 1

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These are just a few of the 247,000 listings  for "Cumberland County NJ vital records" on Yahoo. Google has 78,100 listings. Hope they can help you find out her information.  =)

   But, like someone else said in their answer, most sites won't look up someone's birthdate without at least a last name, and then you'd have probably thousands of records to look through. For instance, www.familysearch.org will look up a name without location, but NOT just a location by itself. The same goes for www.rootsweb.com and www.ancestry.com. Names are essential for looking up your ancestors.

PS--email me her name and I'll see if I can find her. My email is in my profile.

Answer 2

If you know what county she died in, try contacting that county's volunteer at Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness (www.raogk.org).  An obituary goes a long way towards pointing researchers in the right direction.

Good luck in your search!

Answer 3

Please do not take my answer as hostile, but to help your perspective.

Genealogy involves expenses. If you are not willing to buy her death certificate, you are locking yourself out.

Will the library in the other county have it? We have no way to know. Probably not, since death certs are govt documents.

Posting the name of a person who died in 1927 is of no risk to anyone.

There are THOUSANDS of genealogy sites out there. I don't think you have tried "all".. you may have tried the popular ones. All genealogy is not on the internet. If her exact date of death is on the death certificate, no one here is going to find it, unless NJ has those online. No one can determine in which county her birth/death/marriage took place, without looking, but without a name, we cannot look.

You are kind of tying our hands, as to what we might be able to help with.

edit

http://www.state.nj.us/health/vital/

this is about the best I can offer you.

Answer 4

Birth/marriage/death records are not as public as you think, and are not free.  You have to be legally authorized to have those, and be able to prove it.  Check with New Jersey for rules regarding this in their state.  Identity theft is bad enough without practically handing everyone's identity over to the bad guys by making birth/marriage/death records free public information..........which is what you are expecting.

EDIT:  Just looking at these records (birth/marriage/death) is not an option.  That still puts people at risk for identity theft.  There MUST be a process in place for you to prove that you are legally entitled to have those records, which means you have to purchase them.  You cannot look at them anywhere and they are not free.

Answer 5

Your misconception is that the library holds local birth, marriage and death records. That's the State Archives. The local library holds newspaper announcements of the events if they were published, but that may not be enough for you.

What you can do is see if your local library has an Interlibrary Loan program with the State Archives and will order the films of those records for you. You can also order the newspaper films from the other country via Interlibrary Loan. That usually gives you 2-4 weeks to scour them for information. Otherwise, you would have to trek to the NJ State Archives for a day to research everyone.

Answer 6

If you're ever near Trenton, go to the NJ Archives.  They have birth, death and marriage records for NJ on microfilm. (Your dates fall within the range)  You can look for free and it's 50 cents for a copy or not.  There's free parking but you have to walk a few blocks or you can feed the meter (it shouldn't take you too long for two look ups.)  Here's the website http://www.njarchives.org/links/archives...  Check the map, directions and hours there.   Bring ID to show, why I don't know.  Phone#  [phone] West St. It's on the corner of West and Calhoun Streets.

The New Jersey State Archives has the following microfilm copies of New Jersey vital records:

    * Births: June 1878 to 1923

    * Marriages: June 1878 to 1940 (1901-1940 NO brides index)

    * Deaths: June 1878 to 1940

You need their name, year and if possible city of event.

Except for gas, you don't need a dime.  Try death record first, it should have birth and death dates, spouse and parents names.

Good Luck, Ed

Answer 7

Post her name and someone can look it up for you.

The volunteers here are very good at finding "invisible" people for others who are at a standstill in their research.

We have chased  our own ancestors in the census who don't seem to exist.

The best places to look, in my opinion, are ancestry.com  and familysearch.

Butr we can't help if we don't know who to look for.