Скачать или смотреть Proprietary and Colonial New Jersey Research with Melissa Johnson, professional genealogist.

This Plainfield Public Library Genealogy Club program was recorded on March 5, 2022, via Zoom.

Researching families who lived in New Jersey during the Proprietary period (1664-1703) and the Colonial period presents unique challenges. Beginning in 1664, the East and West Jersey proprietors governed New Jersey’s inhabitants. Their records, deposited at the New Jersey State Archives, are complex and require an understanding of the time period and its practices. The Colonial period offers additional record groups to consider, such as church records, land records, court records, probate records, and local records. Attendees will learn strategies useful for specific areas of New Jersey, and discover record groups specific to these time periods. This lecture uses several case studies to illustrate how these records work together to make connections between generations.

Melissa A. Johnson, CG is a professional genealogist, writer, and editor who began researching her family history at the age of nine. Her genealogy practice, Johnson Genealogy Services, focuses on New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and British families, and specializes in family history research; forensic genealogy; using DNA to solve difficult genealogical problems and unknown parentage cases; and genealogical writing, editing, and publishing. Melissa’s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, and Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. As a columnist for NGS Monthly, she authored dozens of articles on sources and research methodology. She is the author of the adoption and Mis-attributed Parentage Research chapter in Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies (Wayne). Melissa is the Program Director for the Boston University Genealogy Studies Program, and teaches at various genealogical institutes across the country. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey, and as Vice President of the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History.

This program is free and co-hosted by Plainfield Public Library and the Historical Society of Plainfield / Drake House Museum.

The Local History Department is funded, in part, by an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.

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