User:RitcheyMT/Connecticut Sandbox

This article is about the U.S. state in New England. For other uses, see Connecticut (disambiguation).

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United States    Connecticut

Welcome to the Connecticut page,
the Nutmeg State

Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies from 1636-1776. Click map to enlarge it.

Most unique genealogical features:

• The Barbour Collection is a statewide birth, marriage, death index
• 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 

Fairfield Hartford

Litchfield Middlesex

New Haven New London

Tolland Windham

Click on the map below to go to a county page. Hover over a county to see its name. To see a larger version of the map, click here.

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

The Connecticut State Papers is a 40 volume set of resources with information for Connecticut researchers. It includes information about the founding of towns, early families, Revolutionary War service rolls, probate record abstracts (1635-1771), court records (1640-1692), and a multitude of other information valuable to the genealogist. To begin your search in this valuable resource click here.

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.

Things you can do

A "must read" concerning the addition of vital records: Connecticut Vital Records General Statutes

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