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===Barbour Collection===
===Barbour Collection===


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;
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/genealogyindexes/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 to about 1850, 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 to about 1850, arranged alphabetically by surname. Yellow slips have entries from private sources such as diaries.


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