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ConnecticutWelcome to the Connecticut page,
the Nutmeg State
- The Barbour Collection is a statewide birth, marriage, death index[1]
- CT wills are filed by probate districts
- State probate index on microfilm
- CT land records were kept by town clerks and are found at the town halls
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Ethnic Records -
Cemeteries , USGenWeb CT Archives
Census, USGenWeb CT Archives
Court Records, USGenWeb CT Archives
History, USGenWeb CT Archives
Military, USGenWeb CT Archives
Obits, USGenWeb CT Archives
Vitals, USGenWeb CT Archives
Statewide
At the USGenWeb CT Archives
Biographies
Cemeteries
Court
History
Military
Obituaries
Counties
Extinct or Lost Areas: Long Island · New Netherland · Western Reserve · Westmoreland
Major Repositories
Connecticut State Library · Connecticut Historical Society · Godfrey Memorial Library · J. Eugene Smith Library · Homer D. Babbidge Library · Mystic Seaport Museum · Yale University Library · New England Historic Genealogical Society · New York Public Library · National Archives Northeast Region (Boston)
Migration Routes
Atlantic Coast Ports · Long Island Sound · Connecticut River Valley · Farmington River Valley · Housatonic Valley · Connecticut Turnpike · Greenwood Road · King's Highway (or Boston Post Road) · New Haven and Milford Turnpike · New London and Lyme Turnpike · Old Connecticut Path · Philipstown Turnpike
Featured Content
Research Tools
- Connecticut County Creation Dates and Parent Counties
- The Connecticut GenWeb Project provides county information about formation date, parent county, county seat, bibliography, cemeteries, census, churches, towns, history, look ups, obituaries, queries, repositories, surname registry, and many Internet links.
- Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776 has full text searchable digital images.
- The New England Historic Genealogical Society has many important Connecticut manuscript collections.
- Connecticut Genealogy offers databases, transcribed records, and a social network for Connecticut researchers.
Wiki articles describing these collections are found at:
- Connecticut Births and Christenings (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Connecitcut Deaths and Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records
- Connecticut Marriages (FamilySearch Historical Records
Things you can do
A "must read" concerning the addition of vital records: Connecticut Vital Records General Statutes
Below list some of the many tasks you can help with:
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Sources
- ↑ Kip Sperry, Connecticut Sources for Family Historians and Genealogists (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1980), 92. (FHL Book 974.6 D23s) WorldCat entry.
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