United States Resources: Connecticut

    Connecticut square based on Beth Summers' American Quilt Blocks

    ROOTS-L Databases and Files

  • Connecticut Surnames in the RootsWeb Surname List

    Surname to search for:
  • Connecticut Books We Own
  • genealog.lc-ct:Books in the on-line Library of Congress catalog with the subject "Connecticut--genealogy."
  • genealog.vital-ct: Where to write for Connecticut vital records, Connecticut genealogical and historical societies, the state archives, and newspaper genealogical columns. Or check Connecticut Vital Records Information for more current info on where to write for vital records.

    Other Connecticut Genealogical and Historical Resources on the Net

    Other Connecticut Genealogy and History Pages

  • Linkpendium Connecticut County Links
  • Connecticut Resources at Rootsweb:
    • State level
    • County level
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - U.S. - Connecticut
  • The Connecticut GenWeb Project
  • American Local History Network

    General Resources

  • Connecticut Mailing Lists
  • USGenWeb Archives: Connecticut
  • LDS Research Outline for Connecticut
  • Connecticut Family History Centers
  • From Ancestry.com
    • 1790 U. S. Census
    • 1800 U. S. Census
    • 1810 U. S. Census
    • 1820 U. S. Census
    • 1830 U. S. Census
    • 1840 U. S. Census
    • 1850 U. S. Census
    • 1860 U. S. Census
    • 1870 U. S. Census
    • 1880 U. S. Census
    • 1900 U. S. Census
    • 1910 U. S. Census
    • 1920 U. S. Census
    • 1930 U. S. Census
  • The USGenWeb Census Project: Connecticut
    • Completed Transcriptions
  • Connecticut Genealogy from the Newberry Library
  • Connecticut Home Page: WPA Life Histories
  • Colonial Money of Connecticut
  • Connecticut Historical Information and Documents
  • Earthquake History of Connecticut
  • Connecticut Tornadoes, 1950-1995
  • Census Online: Connecticut
  • Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness
  • Connecticut Historical Page
  • Connecticut Newspaper Project
  • Ghost Towns of Connecticut
  • Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps camps
  • Historic House Museums in Connecticut
  • Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
  • WDRC History
  • Connecticut Bibliography - United States and Worldwide Postal History
  • Maps and History at NYCROADS
  • New England Interstate Highways of the 1920s
  • Yankee Steel or The Rise and Fall of the American Silver Steel Company
  • Connecticut/New York Boundary History

    Archives, Libraries and Special Collections

  • Connecticut State Library: History and Genealogy and Archives
  • Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism History Division
  • Center for Connecticut Studies
  • Barnum Museum
  • Museum of Connecticut History
  • Danbury Railway Museum
  • Farmington Room The Farmington Library
  • The Thomas Griswold House Museum
  • The Guilford Room Guilford Free Library
  • Gunn Memorial Library and Museum
  • Mattatuck Museum - Art and History Live in Waterbury
  • Godfrey Memorial Library Middletown, CT
  • Mystic Seaport Museum
  • Center for Oral History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs
  • Submarine Force Museum
  • Special Collections at Wesleyan University with information on Middletown
  • Museum of West Hartford History
  • Henry Whitfield Historical Museum
  • Richard W. Woolworth Library The Stonington Historical Society

    Cemeteries

  • The Tombstone Transcription Project
  • Cemetery Records Online
  • The Connecticut Political Graveyard
  • Find A Grave
  • The Connecticut Gravestone Network
  • Headstone Inscriptions Town of Burlington, Connecticut
  • Danbury Gravestone Project
  • New Fairfield:
    • Beaver Bog Cemetery A-S and S-Z
    • Town Center Cemetery A-O and P-Z
    • Gerow Cemetery Part 1 and Part 2
    • Mountain View Cemetery Section 1, A-O, Section 1, O-W, Section 2 and Sections 3, 4, 5 and 6
    • Union Cemetery

    Ethnic and Religious

  • The Hartford Black History Project
  • African Ancestry in Connecticut
  • Mahican History
  • Mattabesic History
  • Mohegan History
  • Niantic History
  • Nipmuc History
  • Pequot History
  • Pocumtuc History
  • Wappinger History

    Local History and Information

  • Guide to a Walking Tour of the Ansonia Historic District
  • Barkhamsted, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Beacon Falls Heritage
  • Bethlehem, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Early Bethlehem
  • Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century
  • Bridgeport, CT - from The Carpathian Connection
  • Bridgewater, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • A Brief History of Burlington, Connecticut
  • Canaan, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Chester History
  • Clinton ... a brief history
  • Colchester: A History of the Town
  • Colebrook, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Cornwall, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • A Brief History About Deep River
  • Derby Quick History
  • History of Fairfield - A Summary
  • Fairfield Police Departhment History
  • Fairfield County Links
  • Goshen, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Groton History Online
  • Hamden's History
  • City of Hartford Connecticut - History
  • Hartford County Links
  • Harwinton, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Kent, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Litchfield, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Litchfield County Links
  • History of Meriden
  • A Brief History of Middlebury
  • Middlefield
  • Middlefield Town History
  • Middlesex County Links
  • City of Middletown History
  • Montville Town History
  • Morris, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Town of New Hartford History
  • New Hartford, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • History of New Haven
  • Early Days in New Haven from The Gene Pool
  • New Haven County Links
  • New London County Links
  • New Milford, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • History of New Milford
  • History of The First Congregational Church New Milford, Connecticut
  • Norfolk, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • North Canaan, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • History of North Haven
  • Our Town: North Stonington from Wheeler Library
  • Old Saybrook, Connecticut: History and Town Profile
  • Plymouth, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Portland History
  • Redding, CT - Past & Present
  • Roxbury, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Salisbury, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Seymour Town History
  • Sharon, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Shelton History
  • A Brief History of Simsbury
  • Somers, Connecticut Town History
  • Southington History
  • Thomaston, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Tolland County Links
  • Torrington, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Trumbull's Cartoon History
  • Town of Wallingford History
  • Warren, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Washington, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Genealogy of Families from Waterbury, Connecticut
  • Greater Waterbury Genealogy & History
  • Watertown, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • West Hartford: Historic Information
  • Weston Volunteer Fire Department History
  • Willimantic, CT (Part of Windham) - from The Carpathian Connection
  • Willimantic Area History
  • Wilton Town History
  • Winchester, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • Town of Windham: History
  • Windham County Links
  • Windsor: A Sense of History
  • Wolcott History
  • Woodbury, Connecticut from The Connecticut Guide, 1935
  • A History of the Town of Woodbury
  • A Brief History of Woodstock

    Maps and Gazetteers

  • USGS/GNIS Database of Connecticut locations
  • Connecticut from Color Landform Atlas of the United States
  • Connecticut Profiles: Interactive county maps
  • Historic USGS Maps of Connecticut: Alphabetic Town Listing
  • Pam Rietsch's 1895 U.S. Atlas

    Military

  • Second Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Line
  • 4th Connecticut Regiment
  • 5th Connecticut Regiment
  • Second Continental Light Dragoons "Sheldon's Horse" Headquarters Page
  • Union Regimental Index: Connecticut
  • Litchfield County and the Civil War
  • Civil War Units
    • 5th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
    • Seventh Connecticut Infantry Regiment
    • History of the Ninth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry "The Irish Regiment"
    • History of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers
    • History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry
    • 15th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry the Lyon Regiment
    • The History of the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers
    • The 17th Connecticut Regiment Home Page
    • 20th Connecticut Infantry Volunteers
    • The "Twentieth Connecticut" A Regimental History
    • The Twenty-fifth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion
  • U.S. Military Personnel who died in the Korean War
  • Vietnam Conflict Casualty List

    Photographs

  • Detroit Publishing Company Photographs from Connecticut
  • Nook Farm
  • Waterbury Photo Album

    Societies, Historical and Genealogical

  • The Connecticut Society of Genealogists
  • The Connecticut Historical Society
  • Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council

      Ethnic and Religious

    • Finnish American Heritage Society of Connecticut
    • The Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast

      Lineage

    • Hereditary Societies of Connecticut
    • Connecticut Society of Mayflower Descendants
    • Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
    • Daughters of the American Colonists Connecticut Society
    • Connecticut Society - Children of the American Revolution
      • Captain Charles Pond Society
    • The Connecticut State Society of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
      • Emma Hart Willard-Welles Chapter - Berlin
      • Mary Silliman Chapter - Bridgeport
      • Sarah Williams Danielson Chapter - Brooklyn
      • Lady Fenwick Chapter - Cheshire
      • Phoebe Humphrey Chapter - Cheshire
      • Nathan Hale Memorial Chapter - East Haddam
      • Martha Pitkin Wolcott Chapter - East Hartford
      • Penelope Terry Abbey Chapter - Enfield
      • Eunice Dennie Barr Chapter - Fairfield
      • Eunice Cobb Stocking Chapter - Glastonbury
      • Putnam Hill Chapter - Greenwich
      • Anna Warner Bailey Chapter - Groton and Stonington
      • Agnes Dickinson Lee Chapter - Guilford, Madison, and Clinton
      • Ruth Wyllys Chapter - Hartford
      • Governor Jonathan Trumbull Chapter - Lebanon
      • Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter - Litchfield
      • Orford Parish Chapter - Manchester
      • Susan Carrington Clarke Chapter - Meriden
      • Wadsworth Chapter - Middletown
      • Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter - Milford
      • Hannah Benedict Carter Chapter - New Canaan
      • Mary Clap Wooster Chapter - New Haven
      • Eve Lear Chapter - New Haven
      • Lucretia Shaw Chapter - New London
      • Roger Sherman Chapter - New Milford
      • Norwalk-Village Green Chapter - Norwalk
      • Faith Trumbull Chapter - Norwich
      • Deborah Avery Putnam Chapter - Plainfield
      • Salisbury Arsenal Chapter - Salisbury
      • Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter - Shelton
      • Abigail Phelps Chapter - Simsbury
      • Hannah Woodruff Chapter - Southington
      • Stamford Chapter
      • Sibbil Dwight Kent Chapter - Suffield
      • Captain Noah Grant Chapter - Tolland
      • Marana Norton Brooks Chapter - Torrington
      • Judea Chapter - Washington
      • Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter - West Hartford
      • Devil's Den Chapter - Weston
      • Abigail Chester Webb Chapter - Wethersfield
      • Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter - Willimantic
      • Drum Hill Chapter - Wilton
      • Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth Chapter - Windsor
      • Green Woods Chapter - Winsted
    • The Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
      • General Gold Selleck Silliman Branch - Bridgeport
      • Roger Sherman Branch - Mid-Fairfield County
      • Captain Matthew Mead Branch - Greenwich
      • Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth Branch - Hartford
      • Captain John Couch Branch - Meriden
      • Humphreys Branch - New Haven
      • Captain Nathan Hale Chapter - New London
      • Chaplain Ebenezer Baldwin Branch - Newtown
      • Governor Samuel Huntington Chapter - Norwich
      • Colonel Elisha Sheldon Branch - Salisbury
      • General Oliver Wolcott, Sr. Branch - Torrington
      • General Israel Putnam Branch - Vernon
    • Department of Connecticut - Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
    • Connecticut Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

      Railroad

    • New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association

      Regional

    • Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Historical Society
    • The Connecticut Valley Tobacco Historical Society

      Local

    • Amity & Woodbridge Historical Society
    • Avon Historical Society
    • Barkhamsted Historical Society
    • Old Bethlem Historical Society - Bethlehem
    • Brookfield Historical Society
    • The Clinton Historical Society
    • Danbury Museum & Historical Society
    • The Darien Historical Society
    • Derby Historical Society
    • East Windsor Historical Society
    • The Enfield Historical Society
    • Fairfield Historical Society
    • The Gaylordsville Historical Society
    • The Guilford Historical Society
    • The Killingly Historical Society
    • Lebanon Historical Society
    • Litchfield Historical Society
    • Manchester Historical Society
    • Mansfield Historical Society
    • Middlebury Historical Society
    • Middlesex Genealogical Society
    • The Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants
    • Monroe Historical Society
    • New Canaan Historical Society
    • New Fairfield Historical Society
    • New Hartford Historical Society
    • The Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven
    • New Haven Colony Historical Society
    • New Milford Historical Society and Museum
    • The Newtown Historical Society
    • North Stonington Historical Society
    • The Old Saybrook Historical Society
    • Orange Historical Society
    • Aspinock Historical Society of Putnam
    • Rowayton Historical Society
    • Salmon Brook Historical Society
    • Saybrook Colony Founders Association
    • Somers Historical Society
    • South Windsor Historical Society
    • Stamford Historical Society
    • Stonington Historical Society
    • Trumbull Historical Society
    • Vernon Historical Society
    • Westport Historical Society
    • Wethersfield Historical Society
    • Windsor Historical Society

    Vital Records

  • Procedure to obtain a Birth, Marriage, or Death Certificate from the Connecticut Department of Health, Vital Records Section
  • Connecticut Vital Records from VitalChek
  • Connecticut Vital Records Information from Elizabeth T. Orsay
  • Early Connecticut Marriages As Found On Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800
  • Town of Hebron Vital Records: Barbour Collection 1708-1854
  • Watebury Vital Records

    Commercial

  • Ancestor Publishers
  • Broad View Books Used Genealogy Books and History
  • Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
  • Picton Press
  • SK Publications Connecticut Census CDs
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