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This Family Archive CD contains images of the pages of the recently published New Jersey Biographical Index. The Index is a comprehensive finding-aid for 100,000 New Jersey biographies--in effect an index to the biographical contents of 237 collective sources. These 237 publications, nearly 2,000 separate volumes, are of various kinds: biographical cyclopedias, histories with biographical components, certain annual reports and other serials, selected periodicals, and other collective biographical sources. The subject of each of the 100,000 biographies is first identified by his full name and his dates of birth and death, following which is a citation to the publication in which his biography appears.

Although this work was compiled over a period of forty years, and is quite comprehensive as far as it goes, researchers must bear in mind that it is primarily an index of biographies that appear in collective sources, not of single-volume biographies. It is thus the quickest and most comprehensive means of gaining access to biographical data found in hundreds of collective works, and is therefore a useful, powerful tool for New Jersey research.

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled "About this Family Archive" appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.