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=== Alternate Repositories === | === Alternate Repositories === | ||
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'''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | '''''Overlapping Collections'''''<br> | ||
* | *[[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.<ref name="DB124">Dollarhide and Bremer, 124.</ref><br> | ||
*< | *[[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.<ref>[http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/home History and Genealogy Home] in ''CT State Library'' (accessed 21 September 2015).</ref> <ref name="DB25">Dollarhide and Bremer, 25.</ref><br> | ||
'''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | '''''Similar Collections'''''<br> | ||
*< | *[[Connecticut Historical Society]], Hartford, town records, biographies, manuscripts, families, early settlers, church records, photos, and maps.<ref name="DB25" /> | ||
'''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | '''''Neighboring Collections'''''<br> | ||
*County Vital Records Office | *County Vital Records Office | ||
*City Vital Records Office | *City Vital Records Office | ||
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*Public Libraries | *Public Libraries | ||
*Museums and heritage societies | *Museums and heritage societies | ||
*Repositories in '''''surrounding counties:''''' [ | *Repositories in '''''surrounding counties in Connecticut:''''' [[Litchfield County, Connecticut|Litchfield]], [[Middlesex County, Connecticut|Middlesex]], [[New Haven County, Connecticut|New Haven]], [[New London County, Connecticut|New London]], [[Tolland County, Connecticut|Tolland]], and '''''in Massachusetts:''''' [[Hampden County, Massachusetts|Hampden]] | ||
*[[Connecticut Society of Genealogists Library]], East Hartford, their holdings are not limited to Connecticut and include census records, tax lists, family histories, church records, local histories, and much more.<ref>[http://www.csginc.org/web_page.php?id=17 CSG Library Holdings] in ''Connecticut Society of Genealogists'' (accessed 21 September 2015).</ref> | |||
*[[Godfrey Memorial Library]], Middletown, an excellent genealogical facility including many New England town records, guidebooks, indexes, biographies, and genealogies.<ref name="DB25" /><br> | |||
*[[Mystic Seaport Museum Collections Research Center]], Mystic, best first-stop for ships' logs and images, journals, ledgers, diaries, and documents from the whaling, fishing, and shipping industries.<ref>[http://www.mysticseaport.org/research/collections/manuscripts/ Manuscripts] in ''Mystic Seaport: the Museum of America and the Sea'' (accessed 20 September 2015).</ref><br> | |||
*State Vital Records Office | *State Vital Records Office | ||
* | *[[UConn Libraries Homer Babbidge Library]], Storrs, an outstanding Connecticut genealogy collection.<ref name="DB25" /><br> | ||
*State | *[[Western Connecticut State University Haas Library]], Danbury, histories, biographies, genealogies, and local histories.<ref name="DB25" /><br> | ||
*University | *[[Yale University Sterling Memorial Library]], New Haven, Puritain and Congregational Church records, as well as Connecticut, New Haven, and New England history, manuscripts, diaries, and journals.<ref name="DB25" /><br> | ||
*Church archives | *Church archives | ||
*Repositories in '''''surrounding states ( | *Repositories in '''''surrounding states:''''' [[Massachusetts Archives and Libraries|Massachusetts]], [[New York Archives and Libraries|New York]], and [[Rhode Island Archives and Libraries|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.<ref name="DB25" /> | |||
*[[American Antiquarian Society]], Worcester MA, collects newspapers, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts. <ref name="DB59">Dollarhide and Bremer, 59.</ref> | |||
*[[Bennington Museum Research Library]], Bennington VT, early Connecticut, New York, Vermont records. It is a great place to find records of families that moved up the Connecticut River and then west.<ref name="DB25" /> | |||
*[[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.<ref name="Wik">"New England Historic Genealogical Society" in ''Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia'' at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Historic_Genealogical_Society (accessed 30 August 2010).</ref> <ref>[http://www.americanancestors.org/education/learning-resources/read/using-the-nehgs-library/ Using the NEHGS Library] in ''American Ancestors" (accessed 21 September 2015).</ref> <ref name="DB55759">Dollarhide and Bremer, 5, 57, and 59.</ref> | |||
*[[New York Public Library]], New York City, 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.<ref>[http://www.nypl.org/locations/divisions/milstein Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy] in ''New York Public Library'' (accessed 21 September 2015).</ref> | |||
*[[Vermont Historical Society Leahy Library]], Barre VT, this society is a good place to research former early Connecticut residents who later moved to Vermont.<ref name="DB25" /> | |||
*[[Western Reserve Historical Society]], Cleveland OH, premier repository for the ''Connecticut Western Reserve'' including original land records, many genealogies, biographies, histories, and Bibles.<ref name="DB89">Dollarhide and Bremer, 89.</ref> | |||
=== Sources === | === Sources === | ||