New Haven Museum Whitney Research Library

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Contact Information
Email: [mailto:library@newhavenmuseum.org library@newhavenmuseum.org]

Address:


 * 114 Whitney Avenue
 * New Haven, CT 06510

Telephone: 203-562-4183 x15 Fax: 203-562-2002

Hours and holidays:Admissions, Hours, and Directions

Map, directions, and public transportation:


 * Map: Google map: New Haven Museum
 * Directions:
 * From Interstate 95 Exit onto Interstate 91 North and follow directions below.
 * From 91 North or South
 * Take Exit 3 – Trumbull Street
 * At end of ramp stay in center lane
 * Proceed straight through first traffic light
 * At next traffic light turn right
 * NHM will be immediately on your left.
 * There is limited free parking in the rear of the building.
 * Public transportation:

Internet sites and databases:


 * The Whitney Library collection description, catalog of manuscripts, research guides, and services.
 * Catalog of Manuscript Collections
 * Manuscript Collection Subject Guide including immigrant groups, personal diaries, and religious institutions.
 * Early Records of New Haven including colony, town, proprietors, and the probate court.

Collection Description
This is the best collection of the earliest southern Connecticut town records. They also have passenger arrival lists, Federal censuses, and a complete set of New Haven city directories since 1840. Formerly known as the New Haven Colony Historical Society.

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Guides

 * NHM Research Guides

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source at the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at Boston (that is Waltham), federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty land, photos, naturalizations, passenger arrival records for Boston and New England, and Canadian border crossings, Chinese immigration, Navy and maritime records.
 * Connecticut State Library, Hartford, has the Barbour Collection, Bibles, census, church, Hale Collection newspaper marriages and deaths, manuscripts, books, cemeteries, probates, vital records, directories, land, local histories, maps, military, naturalization, passenger arrivals, and e-mail questions.

Similar Collections


 * Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, town records, biographies, manuscripts, families, early settlers, church records, photos, and maps.

Neighboring Collections


 * County Vital Records Office
 * City Vital Records Office
 * County Archives
 * County Orphan's Court
 * County Probate Court
 * County Recorder
 * County Coroner
 * U.S. District Court
 * County and local historical societies
 * County and local genealogical societies
 * Public Libraries
 * Museums and heritage societies
 * Repositories in surrounding counties in Connecticut: Litchfield, Middlesex, New Haven, New London, Tolland, and in Massachusetts: Hampden
 * Connecticut Society of Genealogists Library, East Hartford, their holdings are not limited to Connecticut and include census records, tax lists, family histories, church records, local histories, and much more.
 * Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, an excellent genealogical facility including many New England town records, guidebooks, indexes, biographies, and genealogies.
 * Mystic Seaport Museum Collections Research Center, Mystic, best first-stop for ships' logs and images, journals, ledgers, diaries, and documents from the whaling, fishing, and shipping industries.
 * State Vital Records Office
 * UConn Libraries Homer Babbidge Library, Storrs, an outstanding Connecticut genealogy collection.
 * Western Connecticut State University Haas Library, Danbury, histories, biographies, genealogies, and local histories.
 * Yale University Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, Puritan and Congregational Church records, as well as Connecticut, New Haven, and New England history, manuscripts, diaries, and journals.
 * Church archives
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island
 * Albany Institute of History and Art best collection of indexes and records for "old" Albany County, New York, including many Connecticut families that migrated into Vermont and upstate New York.
 * American Antiquarian Society, Worcester MA, collects newspapers, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts.
 * Bennington Museum Research Library, Bennington VT, early Connecticut, New York, Vermont records. It is a great place to find records of families that moved up the Connecticut River and then west.
 * New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, national in scope. Over 100 million name database, of vital records, genealogies, journals, over 200,000 books, 100,000 microfilms, and over 20 million manuscripts with emphasis on New England since the 1600s.
 * New York Public Library, New York City, Genealogy Division has an outstanding collection of American history at national, state and local levels; international genealogy and heraldry in Roman alphabets; Dorot Jewish collection; photos; New York censuses, directories, and vital records.
 * Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library, Barre VT, this society is a good place to research former early Connecticut residents who later moved to Vermont.
 * Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland OH, premier repository for the Connecticut Western Reserve including original land records, many genealogies, biographies, histories, and Bibles.