Books: Union County
The books listed can be found in select libraries and historical/genealogical societies. Ask your local library about its interlibrary loan program. Remember, use secondary sources carefully!
- Elizabethtown & Union County: a pictorial history by Charles L. Aquilina, Richard T. Koles, and Jean-Rae Turner (Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1982)
- Union County Black Americans (NJ) (Black America) by Ethel M. Washington (Arcadia, 2004)
- History of Union County, New Jersey — Taken From Clayton’s History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of Many of the Pioneers and Prominent Men by W. Woodford Clayton (Philadelphia: Everts & Pecks, 1882)
- History of Union County, New Jersey by Frederick W. Ricord (Newark: East Jersey History Co., 1897)
- History of Union County, New Jersey 1664-1923 by A. Van Doren Honeyman (New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1923)
- Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley (and Vicinity) by John Littell (1852, Genealogical Publishing Co.)
- Proceedings of the Union County Historical Society (Elizabeth: Union County Historical Society, 1932)
- Union County Yesterday by Robert J. Fridlington (Union County Cultural & Heritage Programs Advisory Board, 1981)
- Union County’s Black Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War (NJ) by Ethel M. Washington, (Arcadia, 2011)
- Once Upon a Time: A Collection of Local Historical Columns (Union County, New Jersey) by Jean-Rae Turner
- AS WE WERE The Story of Old Elizabethtown by Theodore Thayer (The Grassmann Publishing Comypany, Inc. 1964)
Books: Statewide
- Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey by Francis Bazley Lee, editor (1910)
- The New Jersey Churchscape: Encountering Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Churches by Frank Greenagel (Rutgers, 2001)
- Encyclopedia of New Jersey (Rutgers, 2004)
- Railroads of New Jersey: Fragments of the Past in the Garden State Landscape by Lorrett Treese (2006)
- The Rahway Valley Railroad (NJ) (Images of Rail) (Arcadia, 2002)
See also books under each Community page.
Library Links
- Eastern New Jersey Regional Library Cooperative
- New Jersey State Library
- New Jersey State Archives online catalog
- Special Collections & University Archives, Alexander Library, Rutgers University
- Family History Library Catalog
- National Genealogical Society online catalog (interlibrary loan)