Library and Archival Holdings
The Research Center offers a wide range of information relating to Ocean County history and genealogy. Holdings include books, vertical files, maps, surveys, photographs, postcards, tavern licenses, road returns, ledgers, newspapers, magazines, telephone books and school yearbooks as well as media items such as videos, DVDs, audio recordings, and more. Many holdings are digitized for on-site use and are accessed through computer stations with summary data, pointers to original documents, and scans of original documents.
Research Center holdings include:
Ocean County birth records
Ocean County marriages:
Ocean County Marriages 1850-1890 Vol. 1
Dover Township Marriages 1864-1876
Methodist Circuit Rider Marriages 1869-90
Marriages of Joseph Lawrence, JP, 1818-1838
Marriages of Isaac Peckworth, JP, 1841-1866
Little Egg Harbor Marriages 1848 -1880
Marriages recorded in the records of the Presbyterian Church Toms River 1862-1888
Marriage notices appearing in the Ocean County Democrat 1879 – 1893
Ocean County death records:
Dover Death Records 1848-1876
Brick Death Records 1850-1867
Jackson Death Records 1850-1867
Union Death Records 1849-1864
Plumsted Death Records 1848-1923
Death Notices Reported in Ocean County Democrat 1871 – 1893
Lacey Township Death Records 1921-1945
Little Egg Harbor Death Records 1848-1979
Dover Township probate records
Cemetery records compiled by volunteer staff at OCHS
Funeral records
Obituaries, marriages, and births indexed from local newspapers, 1852-1968
Bible records
Census records
Families of Old Dover: A collection of 200 booklets, each related to a single family, with information compiled from census, cemetery, birth, death, funeral, and bible records.
Family books and files of genealogical information
Miscellaneous deeds
Ocean County high school graduates:
Toms River High School — 1921-1970
Central Regional High School — 1957-1965
St. Joseph’s High School — 1970-1974
Civil War pension records – 1890
Ocean County Indian Sites Survey
Ocean County Historical Society Scroll (newsletter)
Ocean County phone directories for the years 1956-57; 1970-2007; 2010; 2014
Families of Old Dover – Booklets
