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Finding the Right Record Route
For common Princeton research needs, start with the relevant guide or custodian:
- Address, parcel, or recorded-land research: visit the Princeton Street Directory
- Historic directory volumes and earlier households: see the Directory Book
- Researching or verifying one person: use the Princeton Resident Lookup guide
- Record offices and access channels: see Princeton resident records offices
- A record that is not online: make a specific request to the proper custodian under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq.
Princeton Clerk / Government Records Request: Princeton’s Government Records Request page provides the request form and portal. Send mail to the Clerk’s Office at 400 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ 08540, or use the listed fax route at 609-688-2031. Name the department and record as specifically as possible; the Clerk routes municipal OPRA requests, but the department holding the record is the appropriate custodian.