Windham County, Vermont

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This article is about a county in Vermont. For other uses, see Windham (disambiguation).

United States Vermont Windham County

	Vermont Online Records

County Courthouse

Windham County Courthouse
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 207, Newfane, VT 05345-0207
Phone: 802-365-7979
Fax: 802-365-4360

Town Clerks have birth, marriage, death and land records;
County Clerk has divorce and court records from 1825;
Probate Judge has probate records

Towns Organized Before 1800:
Athens 1780,
Brattleboro 1753,
Brookline 1794, 
Grafton 1754,
Guilford 1754,
Halifax 1750,
Jamaica 1780,
Londonderry 1780,
Marlboro 1751,
Newfane 1753,
Putney 1753,
Rockingham 1752,
Townshend 1753,
Woodbury 1781,
 Westminister 1752,
Whitingham 1770,
Wilmington 1751,
Windham 1795^[1]

History

Parent County

Created 22 February 1781 from Bennington County. ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places / Localities

Populated Places

Towns:

Villages:

Communities:

Neighboring Counties

Bennington | Windsor | Franklin County, Massachusetts | New Hampshire counties: Cheshire | Sullivan

Resources

Cemeteries

• List of Windham County Cemeteries 

Church

Court

Gazetteers

Land

Local Histories

Maps

Military

Newspapers

• Newspaperarchive.com ($) has historical newspapers available on-line. Their database has North Adams, MA newspapers (1895-1977) covering local news that included Windham County residents.
  

Probate

There are two Windham County Probate Districts

• Marlboro District - Brattleboro, Dover, Dummerston, Guilford, Halifax, Marlboro, Newfane, Somerset, Stratton, Vernon, Wardsboro, Whitingham and Wilmington.
• Westminster District - Athens, Brookline, Grafton, Jamaica, Londonderry, Putney, Rockingham (including Bellows Falls), Townshend, Westminster and Windham.

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Vermont, Windham County Westminster District Probates (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Taxation

Vital Records

Societies and Libraries

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• FamilySearch.org Family History Library catalog for Windham County
• The Windham County VTGenWeb Project, an member of The VTGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
• The USGenWeb Archives Project for Windham County

References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Windham County, Vermont. Page 699 At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.

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