BOOKS

BOOKS

  1. Townwide, intensive-level, 297 properties. Greater Middletown Preservation Trust and Connecticut
    Historical Commission, 1984.

  2. Cunningham, Janice P. and Elizabeth A. Warner 1984 Portrait of a River Town: The History and Architecture of Haddam, Connecticut. Middletown: Greater Middletown Preservation Trust.

  3. McBride, Kevin A.  1982 Lower Connecticut River Valley Project: Report on the 1981 Field Season. Archaeology Research Manuscript Series, PAST, Inc.

  4. Abbe, Elizabeth. "Connecticut genealogical research: sources and suggestions." Originally published in the New England historical and genealogical register of January 1980. Reprinted in Genealogical research in New England (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984). Note the "Selected list of Connecticut vital statistics in print: town, church and epitaphs" at the conclusion of the article.

  5. Hughes, Arthur M. and Morse S. Allen. Connecticut place names.   Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1976.

  6. Kemp, Thomas Jay. Connecticut researcher's handbook. Detroit:   Gale, 1981.  Volume 12 in the Gale Genealogy and local history series. A thorough bibliographic guide.

  7. Parks, Roger (editor). Connecticut: a bibliography of its history.   Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1986.  Volume six in the Bibliographies of New England series.

  8. Public records of the colony of Connecticut. Hartford: Brown & Parsons, 1850-1890. 15 volumes, each one indexed.

  9. Public records of the state of Connecticut. Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1894-1967. 11 volumes, covering 1776-1803. Each volume indexed.

  10. Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut marriages as found on ancient church records prior to 1800. "Reprinted with additions and corrections" Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968.  Some caution should be exercised with this source.

  11. Barbour collection of Connecticut vital records.  Brings together vital records up to about 1850 (and beyond for some towns). 97 reels. Listings are in two sequences: by town and by surname (entire state).

  12. Charles R. Hale collection of vital records. 358 reels. Newspaper death listings and cemetery inscriptions. Also marriage announcements in newspapers.

  13. Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England marriages prior to 1700. (Reprint) Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.

  14. Bodge, George Madison. Soldiers in King Phillip's War. Leominster, Mass.: 1896.

  15. Catalogue of Connecticut volunteer organizations (infantry, cavalry, and artillery) in the service of the United States. Hartford: Adjutant General, 1869.   Civil War rosters.

  16. Record of service of Connecticut men in the I, War of the Revolution; II, War of 1812; III, Mexican War. Hartford: Adjutant General, 1889.  Two volumes. Index to Revolutionary soldiers in volume 2. Listings are alphabetical for the other two wars.

  17. Connecticut nutmegger. Quarterly of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists.

  18. Roberts, Gary Boyd (editor). Genealogies of Connecticut families from "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register." Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983.  3 volumes, each with indexing.

  19. Census holdings for 1790-1860 complete; printed indexing for each year. 1/95

  20. Bingham, Harold J. History of Connecticut. New York: Lewis Historical Society Pub. Co., 1962

  21. Roth, David. Connecticut: A Bicentennial History. NewYork: Norton, 1979

  22. Fradin, Dennis Brindell and Judith Bloom Fradin. From Seato Shining Sea: Connecticut. Chicago: Children's Press,
    1994.

  23. Gelman, Amy. Connecticut. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1991.

  24. Wills, Charles A. A Historical Album of Connecticut.  Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995.

  25. Hale Collection of Newspaper Marriage and Death Notices, ca. 1750-1865.

  26. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions.

  27. EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, A Digest of the. In Three Volumes.   By Charles William Manwaring.

  28. OLD FAIRFIELD, History and Genealogy of the Families of.  With Additions and Corrections from The American Genealogist.  By Donald Lines Jacobus.

  29. FIRST SETTLERS of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some.  By Nathaniel Goodwin.


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