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 Town clerks have kept records of births from the time a town started. Early town clerks put birth records in town records and in land records. After about 1850, birth information was only put in town records. Town clerks were usually good at recording birth information. The towns continue to keep birth records. <br>
+Birth records were kept by each town clerk. These are described further in [[Connecticut Town Records|Connecticut Town Records]].<br>
+Many of the births recorded in town records have been extracted and are part of the database that can be searched by name on the home page of [https://www.familysearch.org/ FamilySearch]. The former International Genealogical Index (IGI) is part of this.<br>
+Following the Revolutionary War to about 1870, records were not always recorded. <br>
+In 1870, the State Board of Health established. Record keeping in towns improved.
 Connecticut towns are like western townships, so several populated places are in a town's borders. The name of the town is used in official records rather than the name of the populated place. <br>
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