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The Barbour Collection consists of abstracts of town, church and other original records in Connecticut. It was first created as a slip index of over a million entries by Lucius B. Barbour at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, Connecticut.<ref name=":0">Connecticut State Library, "Vital Records for Connecticut (Birth, Marriage, and Death Records). Online at [http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/vital http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/vitalrecords/Barbour.]</ref> It is a statewide index of births, marriages, and deaths arranged alphabetically by surname. Yellow slips have entries from private sources such as diaries. | The Barbour Collection consists of abstracts of town, church and other original records in Connecticut. It was first created as a slip index of over a million entries by Lucius B. Barbour at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, Connecticut.<ref name=":0">Connecticut State Library, "Vital Records for Connecticut (Birth, Marriage, and Death Records). Online at [http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/vital http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/vitalrecords/Barbour.] Linda MacLachlan, Finding Early Connecticut Vital Records: The Barbour Index and Beyond (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2019) 8-9.</ref> It is a statewide index of births, marriages, and deaths arranged alphabetically by surname. Yellow slips have entries from private sources such as diaries. | ||
To accomplish this massive project, Barbour instructed several genealogists to abstract what they judged to be the best extant vital records in most pre-1850 Connecticut towns. These abstractions and similar information already published for other towns were typed onto printed forms. These form sheets were then cut, producing 12 small slips from each sheet. The slips for towns not previously published were then alphabetized and the information was typed a second time on large sheets of rag paper, which were bound into a separate volume for each town. The slips for all towns plus private records collected by the Connecticut State Library were then interfiled, forming a statewide alphabetized slip index of most surviving records to about 1850. Thus there are two parts of the Barbour Collection: the slip index and bound volumes for individual towns.<ref name=":0" /> | To accomplish this massive project, Barbour instructed several genealogists to abstract what they judged to be the best extant vital records in most pre-1850 Connecticut towns. These abstractions and similar information already published for other towns were typed onto printed forms. These form sheets were then cut, producing 12 small slips from each sheet. The slips for towns not previously published were then alphabetized and the information was typed a second time on large sheets of rag paper, which were bound into a separate volume for each town. The slips for all towns plus private records collected by the Connecticut State Library were then interfiled, forming a statewide alphabetized slip index of most surviving records to about 1850. Thus there are two parts of the Barbour Collection: the slip index and bound volumes for individual towns.<ref name=":0" /> | ||