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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 | 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=":2"> Connecticut State Library, The Barbour Collection. https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/henealogyindexes/Barbour; | ||
</ref><ref name=":0">Linda MacLachlan, Finding Early Connecticut Vital Records: The Barbour Index and Beyond (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2019) 3.</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. | </ref><ref name=":0">Linda MacLachlan, Finding Early Connecticut Vital Records: The Barbour Index and Beyond (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2019) 3.</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 separate volumes for each of 137 towns. 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" /> Note: The slip index includes pre-published vital records from eight towns (Bolton, Coventry, Enfield, Mansfield, New Haven, Norwich, Vernon, and Woodstock) which are not in the bound typescripts in addition to thousands of private records.<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 separate volumes for each of 137 towns. 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.<ref name=":2" /> Thus there are two parts of the Barbour Collection: the slip index and bound volumes for individual towns.<ref name=":0" /> Note: The slip index includes pre-published vital records from eight towns (Bolton, Coventry, Enfield, Mansfield, New Haven, Norwich, Vernon, and Woodstock) which are not in the bound typescripts in addition to thousands of private records.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
'''Films. '''They has been microfilmed and digitized on 98 films as the ''{{FHL|295370|title-id|disp=Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records Prior to 1850}}'', available at the Family History Library and online at FamilySearch.org. The film collection is alphabetical by surname. The more original and extensive slip index is on films 2,887 through 2,966 and 2.984. The individual books are on films 2,967 through 2,983. The entire 143 town slip index with its added private collections of Connecticut vital records is available only at the Connecticut State Library or on FHL microfilms 2,887 through 2,966 and 2.984.<ref name=":1" /> | '''Films. '''They has been microfilmed and digitized on 98 films as the ''{{FHL|295370|title-id|disp=Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records Prior to 1850}}'', available at the Family History Library and online at FamilySearch.org. The film collection is alphabetical by surname. The more original and extensive slip index is on films 2,887 through 2,966 and 2.984. The individual books are on films 2,967 through 2,983. The entire 143 town slip index with its added private collections of Connecticut vital records is available only at the Connecticut State Library or on FHL microfilms 2,887 through 2,966 and 2.984.<ref name=":1" /> | ||