Early Bergen County Families
- Profile
- Images
Location: New Netherland, New York, New Jersey
Surnames/tags: new_netherland new_jersey new_york
Early Bergen County Families
Early Bergen County Families was compiled by Patricia A. Wardell of Allendale, New Jersey. It contains data and notes on the early residents of Bergen County, New Jersey, and surrounding areas that Pat Wardell collected during her many years of research. Wardell provided PDF files containing the research data to the Genealogical Society of Bergen County, the new copyright holder. The GSBC posted them online in the past and may put an updated version in the public domain again in the future according to the text of its web site.
- Source Example for the entire collection:
- <span id='Wardell'></span>Wardell, Patricia A. ''[[Space:Early Bergen County Families|Early Bergen County Families]]'', Genealogical Society of Bergen County website, njgsbc.org. https://www.njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/
- Recommended citation style for citing specific contents:
- Wardell, Patricia A. ''[[Space:Early Bergen County Families|Early Bergen County Families]]'', Genealogical Society of Bergen County website, njgsbc.org. File: BCFam-Roosa.pdf, page 5: "Roosa, Dirk." Accessed 06 Jul 2016. https://www.njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/
Availability:
Formerly published online at http://njgsbc.org/indexes/bergen-county-families/ . The material was taken offline and files are not being made available, pending a re-release that was expected in October 2021, and is now (as of February 2023) planned for early 2023. See that page to find information about the status of this material.
- Login to edit this profile and add images.
- Private Messages: Send a private message to the Profile Manager. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
After the public launch of these materials, we received complaints from a few individuals about some of the contents of the files—which contained unedited personal research notes and included information that was originally provided as "off the record." We also discovered some other information which we are reviewing closely and are updating the contact information in the files to better answer queries and address issues.
The Committee has put hundreds of hours of work into this review and are establishing new policies and a new system to review requests about information in the files. There are 15k pages in this collection—a ton of work.
We should have the files back on the GSBC website (www.njgsbc.org) by October 2021 after the Board approves the final materials and new policies.
BUT, in order to maintain the collection and respect any future actionable redaction requests, we WILL enforce our copyright and control to these materials—which Ms. Wardell has charged us with managing. This means that the Collection should ONLY be accessed from the GSBC website (again, it WILL be accessible shortly, please give us time to do our work).
Using a few files from our website for your personal research is what we want. Downloading the ENTIRE collection and serving them as your own violates our basic controls over our content as well as WikiTree's Terms of Use . (We have also recently experienced others charging money to content that we provide for free. And if you see these files posted other places, please let me know.) The files posted here were not for personal research, it was a copy of our entire Collection—which violated our copyright, usurping the control we need over our own content. So, in order to regain control of the files, we decided to claw-back and then re-launch it as a clean set of materials in October.
We are all volunteers—please allow us the respect for the hundreds of hours we have put into making this Collection a better one.
We are also committed to keeping the Collection OPEN to researchers.
This is an important Collection for us and Bergen County researchers. (My family dates to the 1670s in Bergen County, so this is all MY family, too.) This outage is a temporary one, but necessary.
Thank you for your understanding. I look forward to re-launching this Collection, in a BIG way, on the GSBC website in October.
Michelle D. Novak, GSBC Webmaster mnovakdesign [at] me.com
edited by Michelle Novak
It sounds like you and other Society volunteers have made spectacular progress in your efforts to up this material. I am delighted to hear that you expect to make the whole collection available by October (I estimated that it was likely to take a good bit longer than that, so I congratulate you on your progress).
It is evident that Ms. Wardell was an insightful genealogist, and that she devoted an enormous amount of her time and other resources to her work. Although her focus is on Bergen County, her work has great value for people researching ancestors who lived throughout the New Netherland region. Kudos to the GSBC for making her work freely available. Unfortunately, I don't think we can stop others from slapping ownership claims on other people's genealogical work and charging money for information that should be free; I frequently see individuals and publishers doing that, and there seem to be plenty of people who willingly (or even eagerly) support them.
I have a request.
A day ago, Ellen Smith asked WikiTreers to update citations when the new version of Wardell's files becomes available.
Is there any way that you can clearly identify the files in which the text has changed (because of corrections or additions)? For instance, the modified files could have "edited in YEAR" or the like at the end of the file name.
This would save users a lot of time since each genealogist doesn't want to go through each file that they ever cited (in a Wikitree profile, in their own database, or in a published work) in order to see if the information to which their citation refers is still valid (or the page numbers for that matter).
It can be found at http://www.dutchdoorgenealogy.com/bergen_county_new_jersey_dictionary_place_names.pdf
edited by Carol (Clancy) Johnson