Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records

Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records
Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records

Most Connecticut researchers are as familiar with the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records as Massachusetts researchers are with their “tan books” of town vital records. For those not familiar, in short, the Barbour Collection provides a transcription and index of pre-1870 Connecticut vital records on a town by town basis. The Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, as it is officially known has been housed in the Connecticut State Library since Lucius created it. For non local researchers, microfilm copies have been widely distributed over the years. Finally, it’s now becoming available online in an even wider distribution.

The 123 volumes are arranged in alphabetical order according to town name. Within each town, the records are arranged in alphabetical order according to surname. Each marriage record is so arranged that all the vital records for a person is together, so birth and death records may also be found within the marriage records database. Unfortunately, it’s not all available online for free. We have provided the links for each town below depending on it’s availability at a free website, and then as a backup to Ancestry if the specific resource is not available for free. Ancestry links are followed by a $$$.


Collection:
AccessGenealogy.com United States Vital Records.

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