• Annals and Family Records of Winchester, Connecticut - (Book Online - World Vital Records) : With Exercises of the Centennial Celebration, on the 16th and 17th days of August, 1871. Subscription required. -

• The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Volume 51 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The towns of Weston 1787-1850, Westport 1835-1850, Willington 1727-1851 are the subjects of Volume 51, which was compiled by the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society. -

• The East-Haven Register: In Three Parts (Connecticut) - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Part I containing a history of the town of East-Haven, from its first settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. Part II containing an account of the names, marriages, and births, of the families which first settled, or which have resided in East-Haven, from its settlement in 1644, to the year 1800. Part III containing an account of the deaths in the families named in the second part, from the year 1647 to the end of the year 1823. Search or browse. Subscription required. -

• Vital Records of Bolton to 1854, and Vernon to 1852 - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Subscription required. -

• Vital Records of Woodstock, 1686 - 1854 (Connecticut) - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Subscription required. -

• Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : with the Time of Their Arrival in the Colony, and Their Standing in Society, Together with Their Place of Residence, as Far as Can Be Discovered by the Records. Subscription required. -

• Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : 7 books in 1. An extensive work, this is based on original records, mainly of the Congregational and Episcopal churches of the period 1651-1800. About 30,000 marriages are recorded, arranged by town and thereunder by church, and they give the full names of the brides and grooms, and the marriage dates. Each of the seven volumes is indexed. -

• Early Connecticut Marriages as found on Ancient Church Records, Prior to 1800 - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Searchable online edition of this work by Frederick W. Bailey published 1896-1906. Subscription required. -

• Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Searchable online edition of this book by Nathaniel Goodwin published in 1856. Subscription required. -

• A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The standard dictionary of the "First Settlers" of Connecticut, this work consists of an alphabetically arranged list of about 2,000 persons, showing the time of their arrival, residence, station or occupation, and names of wives and children. Includes alphabetical lists of the first settlers of Enfield, Hartford, Saybrook, Wetherfield, and Windsor; a list of "A Part of the Early Marriages, Births, and Baptisms, in Hartford, Ct. from Record," and "Passengers of the Mayflower in 1620." -

• A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records 3 vols. - (Book - Amazon.com) : Based on records of the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut, on records of the Particular Court, and ultimately on probate records of the Hartford County Court, these three impeccably edited volumes cover the wills, inventories, distributions of estates, and court records of the men and women who settled in that fecund district of Connecticut embracing Hartford, Wethersfield, and Windsor. Officially established in 1666, the Hartford probate district at one time or another covered no fewer than 40 towns. Residents of those towns had their wills proved in Hartford, and this work contains not only accurate transcriptions of those wills, but transcriptions of all related documents, including administration records, inventories of estates, records of estate distributions, and associated court records. In total, some 30,000 persons are named in the wills and associated records. At the beginning of Volume I there is an indispensable list of probate districts and towns showing the districts in which the towns are located. There is likewise a list of towns with their corresponding probate districts. Each volume has an index to estates and one to names. Nothing has been left to chance, and the scholarly care lavished on the work is apparent on every page. -

• A Gazetteer of Connecticut and Rhode Island - (Database Online - World Vital Records) : Published in 1819, the gazetteer provides a geographical and statistical description of the towns and counties of the two states. It also provides descriptions of the divisions, societies, cities, boroughs and villages in the area; and even some 'biographical notices of eminent deceased men.' Subscription required. -

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• Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Authors Brown and Rose spent eight years gathering every shred of information they could find on approximately 2,000 African-American families who inhabited one or more of 26 counties in Southeastern Connecticut. Their sources consisted primarily of U.S. census records from 1790 through 1870 and secondarily on manumission records, deeds, probate records, diaries, church records, and military records. -

• Colonial Ancestors: William Andrews, Robert Fuller, Lazarus Manley and John White - William Andrews of Hartford, Robert Fuller of Salem and Rehoboth, Lazarus Manley of Coventry and Mansfield, and John White of Hartford and Hadley. By Edward H. Little and Mary Naomi Foster. 384 pp. 70 photos, charts and illus; 4,641 entry Every Name Index. Penobscot Press. 1991. This prize-winning book, now in its second printing, encompasses a wide range of families from the earliest generations of eastern Connecticut while concentrating on the four settlers named in the title. -

• Extracts from the Records of Colchester, Connecticut. - Colchester was established in 1698 and settled soon after that by, among others, Michaell Taintor, who was for many years town clerk. Charles M. Taintor extracted from the town and other records all of the vital records and many other of the more important deeds, etc. from the settlement of the town to as late as 1787 (most records are much earlier). These he published in 1864 in a small volume, which is now exceedingly rare and never reproduced. The book received an enthusiastic response in 1864, but the review in the Register noted: "lacks an index, which would have doubled its value." That lack has now been rectified by Picton Press' Every Name Index, which makes fully available to you all 3,746 entries in the book. -

• Families of Ancient New Haven. With an Index Vol. by Helen L. Scranton. 9 vols. in 3 - (Book - Amazon.com) : This work--originally published as the first eight volumes of The American Genealogist plus a ninth, cross-index volume prepared in 1939 by Helen Scranton--is the definitive statement on the ancestry and relationships of 35,000 residents of eighteenth-century New Haven, Connecticut, and it is the only publication which succeeds in treating every family of an entire New England region. Jacobus deals with the families of the ancient town of New Haven and the towns set off from it: Hamden, Bethany, Woodbridge, East Haven, North Haven, and West Haven. Lines are brought down to the heads of families cited in the 1790 census and include the generation born between 1790 and 1800, the aim being to provide every record of birth or baptism up to the year 1800, every record of marriage to 1810, and every record of death of individuals born before 1800. -

• Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut - (Book - Amazon.com) : This book is excerpted from Dr. Stiles two-volume history of one of Connecticut's original three river towns. Many of the hundreds of genealogies found in Clearfield's reprint carry the pioneering families of Wethersfield forward over many generations from the time of the town's founding in the seventeenth century and are replete with biographical details on numerous descendants. More than 12,000 persons are referred to in the index. Also available from Amazon.ca (Canada) -

• Families of Early Guilford, Connecticut (1 Volume in 2) - The plan of this work is to record the genealogies of all families resident in Guilford from the settlement of the town in 1639 to about 1890. Special attention is accorded the earliest families, of course, but in general all families resident in Guilford for more than one or two generations are covered, a feat well within the author's compass since he served as Registrar of Guilford and had unlimited access to town and family records. Read more... -

• Families of Early Milford, Connecticut - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This monumental compilation contains the genealogical records of approximately 300 families of early Milford, Connecticut. The genealogies range from a single paragraph to a dozen pages or more, enumerating descents through several generations, and are arranged alphabetically by family name, under which may also be found the names and records of allied families. The families traced here include those called Free Planters, who settled Milford in 1639, those who came soon afterward and who are called After Planters, and, in addition, those families who were in town at an early date and about whom there is a significant amount of information available. There are nearly 15,000 names in the index. -

• First Congregational Church of Preston, Connecticut 1698-1898 Together With Statistics Of The Church Taken From The Church Records - (Book - Amazon.com) : The history of a New England church two hundred years old involves, especially in its early life, more or less of the history of the town where it has had a place...The founding of this church takes us back within reach of the landing of the Pilgrims. Statistics of the church are grouped by ministry, 1698-1898 -

• Full Circle: A Directory of Native and African Americans, Windham County, CT - (Book - Amazon.com) : By Marcella Houle Pasay. Ms Pasay has documented early natives, slaves and colored freemen residing in, and with ties to, Windham County, Connecticut, and the surrounding area from 1650-1900. Information gleaned from hundreds of sources, including census records, vitals, church records, selectmen’s minutes, seamen’s certificates, military records from the National Archives, court records and diaries, to name just a few, provides historians, scholars and family researchers with the data necessary to track early Indian and colored individuals and families. The appendices include: Rosters of veterans from the Colonial period through the Civil War; a detailed breakdown of the 1830 Federal Census; and Indian map of the “Quinebaug County” with place names and map history. This directory is attractively presented in alphabetical order. An every name index of the over 8500 individuals and a twenty-one page place and subject index complement the work. 2002, 809 pp., 2 vols, indices, paper. -

• Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut : A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth (4 Volumes) - (Books - Amazon.com) : One of the richest and scarcest publications in all of Connecticut genealogy, this four-volume work boasts detailed genealogical and biographical essays on some 1,000 families of the Constitution State who were well established in Connecticut at the time of the book's original publication in 1911. Commencing with an explanation of the derivation of the family's surname, each essay traces forward from the oldest known ancestor to the principal subject of the essay. This is followed by a detailed biography of that person and, in hundreds of instances, his photo, as well as an enumeration of collateral lines related to the principal subject. The index at the back of the final volume identifies some 9,000 Connecticut ancestors. -

• Genealogical Data from Colonial New Haven Newspapers - (Book - Amazon.com) : Colonial newspapers are a prime source of genealogical data, and early New Haven, Connecticut newspapers, in particular, are rich in data on individuals who might not otherwise appear in the public records. This present work, a joint undertaking by Kenneth Scott and Rosanne Conway, contains abstracts of all items concerned with persons in New England mentioned in New Haven newspapers between 1755 and the outbreak of the Revolution, providing some 20,000 references to approximately 7,500 persons. Such findings are normally hard won, and the genealogist interested in early Connecticut has much to be grateful for.
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• Genealogies of Connecticut Families from The New England Historical and Genealogical Register - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Genealogies of Connecticut Families is a collection of family history articles which have been compiled with the object of bringing all such material within reach of the genealogist. Its three volumes, each with its own index, and its references to some 75,000 persons in more than 400 articles, combine to make it the most significant repository of Connecticut family histories available. With these volumes genealogists at last have the means of undertaking a systematic examination of the work of the finest scholars in Connecticut genealogy. -

• History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Connecticut) - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Jacobus's Families of Old Fairfield is the ultimate authority on the ancestry and relationships of approximately 50,000 residents of Fairfield County, Connecticut. It is a vast compendium of family history, meticulously developed from original sources, and in every way an accurate reflection of the investigative genius of its celebrated author. -

• Litchfield and Morris [Connecticut] Inscriptions - (Book - Amazon.com) : Gravestone inscriptions from 12 CT cemeteries. Most dates fall between the mid-18th and late-19th centuries. Reprint of the 1905 edition. -

• New England Family Histories: State of Connecticut - (Book - Amazon.com) : An abundance of genealogical works about New England families has been written and is available to the public. This book is your guide to these existing works. The authors have researched and compiled a valuable bibliographic reference tool for anyone searching for their New England ancestors, or researching Connecticut family histories and genealogies. Bibliographic references are grouped alphabetically, by family name, from Aasen to York, with titles arranged alphabetically by author. Individual book listings contain author, publisher and publication date (as available) to make location easier. This volume also provides a list of the major Connecticut libraries, codes to library abbreviations with a very brief glossary, a list of Connecticut genealogical societies, a bibliography and an index of full names. 1999, 258 pp., bibl., fullname index, paper -

• Tapestry. A Listing History of the Black Family in Southeastern Connecticut - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The first half of Tapestry consists of a historical overview of African Americans in southeastern Connecticut from 1680 to 1865. The authors focus on the arrival of blacks in Connecticut, the African-American family, and the role played by African Americans in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Much of the action takes place in the towns of Groton, East Haddam, New London, Chatham, and Hebron. In the second part of the volume, Dr. Rose and Mrs. Brown produce, as illustrations, genealogical sketches of the following African-American families: Beman, Boham, Bush, Freeman, Hallan, Hyde, Jacklin, Jackson, Lathrop, Magira, Mason, Moody, Peters, Quash, Rogers, and Wright. -

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