COURT HOUSE – On Aug. 15, County Clerk Rita Marie Fulginiti accepted delivery of 45 volumes of restored archival records with dates ranging from 1781 to 1963.
The records of the County Clerk’s Office and Surrogate’s Office received archival conservation treatments and were rebound by Brown’s River Bindery in Essex, Vt. Clerk’s intern Kate Thomson of Court House assisted Fulginiti in unpacking the following records:
Original Slave Birth Record 1810
Marriage Books A-C, 1795-1878 (four volumes)
Partitions of Land Book 1, 1847-1866 (one volume)
Road Books A-C 1781-1909 (four volumes)
Surveyor’s Record, 1879-1906 (one volume)
Earmark Book B, 1840-1870 (one volume)
Naturalization Records, 1896-1963 (31 volumes)
Books of Reports A-C, 1802-1924 (three volumes)
Over the summer professional conservators at Brown’s River disbound the volumes, surface cleaned and deacidified the pages; removed tapes, adhesives and stains and repaired tears, according to a release.
Prior to rebinding, the volumes were microfilmed for preservation and scanned for access by PMI Technologies of Cherry Hill. The volumes arrived in Cape May County in custom-made archival boxes.
This work was funded by a Public Archives and Records Infrastructure Support Grant in the amount of $47,407 administered by the Department of State Division of Archives and Records Management.
“These records are among the historical treasures of our county. This project preserved our records for future generations and will provide greater access for family historians, genealogists and land title researchers.” Fulginiti said.
The public may inspect the Clerk’s records in the County Clerk’s Archives located at 7. N. Street and the Surrogate’s records in the Surrogate’s Office located at 9 N. Main Street both here.
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