US-Connecticut Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/region/us-connecticut/ The Best Source for Genealogy and Family History Books and eBooks Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:00:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://genealogical.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-genappicon-300x300-1-125x125.png US-Connecticut Archives - Genealogical.com https://genealogical.com/region/us-connecticut/ 32 32 Finding Early Connecticut Vital Records https://genealogical.com/store/finding-early-connecticut-vital-records/ Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:04:35 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=39081 The Barbour Index to Connecticut vital records, created by Lucius B. Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1922 to 1934, and housed at the Connecticut State Library, is the starting point for researching Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records prior to 1850. The 55-volume Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records published by the […]

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]]> The Barbour Index to Connecticut vital records, created by Lucius B. Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1922 to 1934, and housed at the Connecticut State Library, is the starting point for researching Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records prior to 1850. The 55-volume Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records published by the Genealogical .com between 1994 and 2002 and covering 137 Connecticut towns, is a reliable transcription of the original Barbour Index. These books are available in paperback and electronic editions. The Barbour Index is not only the source of all these publications, but also includes six additional towns and abstractions of many private record compilations at the Connecticut State Library.

If the Barbour Index is unquestionably the starting point for Connecticut research, we can now say with equal confidence that it must share the spotlight with a new publication: Linda MacLachlan’s Finding Early Connecticut Vital Records: The Barbour Index and Beyond. The product of a 10-year examination of Connecticut vital records, this identifies the original sources of the millions of early Connecticut vital records abstracted in the Barbour Index. It names hundreds of books, manuscripts, and articles not referenced by Barbour, and points the researcher to thousands of additional sources for early Connecticut births, deaths, and marriages. Finding Early Connecticut Vital Records is, in fact, a complete inventory of Connecticut vital records, and no collection can be complete without it.

Finding Early Connecticut Records contains a town-by-town bibliography of both Barbour’s actual sources for the information in his Index and all vital records not in the Barbour Index that may be in church and cemetery records, town records, and published sources. For each town we are given the Family History Library (FHL) film numbers for derivative and original sources that have been microfilmed, and other source information for those that have not. These town chapters also note (in bold face) discrepancies and other town records that Barbour did not abstract. Later sections list other sources for birth, marriage, and death information, such as church records, cemetery transcriptions (including those found in the famous Hale Collection), and available print sources, including secondary compilations of town vital statistics from multiple sources.

This new reference work, available in both print and hardcover editions, also includes equivalent information for six other pre-1851 Connecticut towns that Barbour did not index: Cromwell, Easton, New Britain, New Fairfield, Seymour, and Trumbull. Many of the vital records substitutes cited in the work and not included by Barbour quote the applicable catalog description of the record’s contents. A final component of each chapter includes compilations of divorce records and Bible records, as well as compilations containing Connecticut vital records. A work as complex as this one would not be complete without a substantial Introduction explaining the history and nature of the Barbour Index and its limitations, and a detailed subject index.

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]]> Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry. Three eBook Volumes https://genealogical.com/store/royal-families-americans-of-royal-and-noble-ancestry-all-four-print-volumes-copy/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 02:40:50 +0000 https://genealogical.com/?post_type=product&p=24650 This is the eBook Bundle that does not include the Fourth Volume, currently available only in Print. Details for the individual volumes can be seen by selecting either Print or eBook of those volume below.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 36] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-36/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-36/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

Wilma Moore returns as the compiler of the thirty-sixth volume in the Barbour series, which covers the towns of Portland, Prospect, Redding, and Ridgefield and encompasses 30,200 persons.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 37] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-37/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:00 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-37/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 38] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-38/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:01 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-38/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

The contents of Volume 38 are devoted to Saybrook and Sharon, Connecticut, and together encompass the vital records of some 34,000 inhabitants.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 39] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-39/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:01 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-39/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

Volume 39 marks the first of three new volumes from series general editor Lorraine White. It covers the towns of Sherman and Simsbury to the tune of 22,000 references.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 40] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-40/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:02 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-40/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

The fortieth volume of the Barbour Collection covers the aforementioned four additional Connecticut towns, altogether referring to 29,500 early inhabitants.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 41] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-41/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:02 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-41/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

Volume 41 is devoted to Sterling and Stratford, Connecticut, and it brings together vital references to more than 24,500 individuals, some of them from the 17th century.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 42] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-42/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:03 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-42/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

Volume 42 collects the vital records of the town/city of Stamford–for more than 200 years. References to 30,500 persons may be found herein.

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]]> The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 43] https://genealogical.com/store/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-43/ Fri, 03 May 2019 20:27:03 +0000 http://gpcprod.wpengine.com/product/the-barbour-collection-of-connecticut-town-vital-records-vol-43/ Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of […]

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]]> Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour’s celebrated collection of vital records, one of the last great manuscript collections to be published. Each volume in the series contains the birth, marriage, and death records of one or more Connecticut towns. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by town (also in alphabetical order) and give, typically, name, date of event, names of parents, names of children, names of both spouses, and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and place of residence.

The town of Stonington is the subject of Volume 43, which was compiled by Nancy Schott. It contains references to 41,500 individuals.

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