| New Jersey Birth Certificates Among the Mid-Atlantic states, New Jersey has the longest continuing run of statewide registration of births, marriages, and deaths, which began in May 1848. The New Jersey State Archives has these records with indexes through 1923 for births and through 1940 for marriages and deaths. Marriages were also to be kept by the county clerks from 1795.
 For birth records through 1923 and marriage and death records through 1940, write:
 New Jersey State Archives
 Division of Archives and Records Management
 185 West State Street
 CN 307
 Trenton, NJ 08625-0307
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