New Haven Museum Whitney Research Library

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New Haven Museum Whitney Research Library Contact Information E-mail:  library@newhavenmuseum.org Address: 114 Whitney Avenue New Haven CT 06510 Telephone:  203-562-4183 x15 Fax: 203-562-2002 Hours and holidays:  Tuesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday: 12–5 p.m.; Free 1st Sundays: 1-4 p.m. 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 free parking in the rear of the building. Public transportation: Internet sites and databases: Repository Internet site {create a link for each bullet, and then give a line or two listing content so the reader will know if it is worthwhile to click on that link}. Repository catalog online. Repository database. other(s). 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. Tips {Optional} Guides {Optional: Internet or guide books describing this collection for genealogists. } Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a source at the New Haven Museum Whitney Research Library, 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 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 Godfrey Memorial Library an excellent genealogical facility including many New England town records, guidebooks, indexes, biographies, and genealogies. Mystic Seaport Museum Collections Research Center best first-stop for ships' logs and images, journals, ledgers, diaries, and documents from the whaling, fishing, and shipping industries. New Haven Museum Whitney Research Library best collection of the earliest southern Connecticut town records; also passenger arrival lists, Federal censuses, and New Haven city directories since 1840. State Vital Records Office UConn Libraries Homer Babbidge Library an outstanding Connecticut genealogy collection. Western Connecticut State University Haas Library histories, biographies, genealogies, and local histories. Yale University Sterling Memorial Library Puritain 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, collects newspapers, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts. Bennington Museum Research Library early Connecticut, New York, and 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 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, VHS is a good place to research former early Connecticut residents who later moved to Vermont. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, premier repository for the Connecticut Western Reserve including original land records, many genealogies, biographies, histories, and Bibles. Sources