Connecticut Compiled Genealogies

Most archives, historical societies, and genealogical societies have special collections and indexes of genealogical value. These must usually be searched in person.

Connecticut General Assembly
Senate and House Members Lists names of members of: Senate 1776-present, and House 1849-present. Information Given: Name Town Chamber Party Years Served Date of Death

Manuscript Collections
The Family History Library has copies of significant sources such as the Frank T. Calef and other collections of Mayflower and Puritan descendants, the Charles D. Parkhurst manuscripts for New London, and compiled genealogies for early families in Fairfield, Hartford, New Haven, and other areas.

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection consists of transcripts of Bible records, cemetery records, church records, marriages, deaths, obituaries, and wills. It was microfilmed in 1970 and 1971 at the DAR Library in Washington, DC, and is on 24 microfilms at the Family History Library (beginning with FHL film ). The collection is listed in the Family History Library Catalog under CONNECTICUT - COLLECTED WORKS.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society has many important manuscript collections. The society's card catalog is on microfilm at the Family History Library (Family History Library films ; ; ).

Published Sources
''Connecticut Society of Genealogists. Ancestry Service''. Ten Volumes. Glastonbury, Connecticut: Connecticut Society of Genealogists, ca. 1979-84. (Family History Library book .) As of 1997, volumes listing surnames A-S have been published. The ancestor charts, 1962-1990, and ancestry service, 1962-1988, have been microfilmed (on 59 Family History Library films beginning with).

Cutter, William Richard, et al. Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut. . . . Four Volumes. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911. (Family History Library .) An index to this and other New England publications by Cutter is Norma Olin Ireland and Winifred Irving, Cutter Index: A Consolidated Index of Cutter's Nine Genealogy Series (Fallbrook, California: Ireland Indexing Service, 197?; Family History Library ).

Greenlaw, William Prescott. The Greenlaw Index of the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Two volumes. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979. (Family History Library.) This is an index to many local histories and genealogies published between 1900 and about 1940.

Hinman, Royal Ralph. A Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut.. . . 1846. Second Edition. 1852-56. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. (Family History Library .) The second edition includes surnames A-Danielson only. The 1846 edition contained surnames for the full alphabet (Family History Library film .)

New England Historic Genealogical Society. English Origins of New England Families: From the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. First Series, Three Volumes, 1984. Second Series, Three Volumes., 1985. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co. (Family History Library book ; second series .)

New England Historic Genealogical Society. Genealogies of Connecticut Families from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Three Volumes. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983. (Family History Library book .)

Rider, Fremont, ed. American Genealogical- Biographical Index. Volumes 1-186. Middletown, Connecticut: The Godfrey Memorial Library, 1952-. (Family History Library book This is a continuing series. An earlier version in 48 volumes was published as The American Genealogical Index, 1942-51. (Family History Library book ; films .)

Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England.. . . Four Volumes. 1860-62. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965. (Family History Library .) Also available through Google Books

Writing and Sharing Your Family History
Sharing your own family history is valuable for several reasons:


 * It helps you see gaps in your own research and raises opportunities to find new information.
 * It helps other researchers progress in researching ancestors you share in common.
 * It draws other researchers to you who already have information about your family that you do not yet possess.
 * It draws together researchers with common interests, sparking collaboration opportunities. For instance, researchers in various localities might choose to do lookups for each other in remote repositories. Your readers may also share photos of your ancestors that you have never seen before.


 * See also:
 * Create a Family History
 * Writing Your Family and Personal History
 * A Guide to Printing Your Family History

Web Sites

 * The CTGenWeb Project Information and resources on doing genealogy in Connecticut


 * The USGenWeb Project Archives, archival repository of text files of various types of records.


 * Connecticut Genealogy Organizes many online sources by record type and locality.


 * Connecticut Genealogy Books &amp; CDs, Connecticut History Books, (accessed 2 Mar 2011), from sponsors of TheOldenTimes.com: Historic Newspapers Online. Organized by state and by county.