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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" /> | 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 have been microfilmed and digitized on 98 films as the ''{{FSC|295370|title-id|disp=Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records Prior to 1850}}'', available at the | '''Films. '''They have been microfilmed and digitized on 98 films as the ''{{FSC|295370|title-id|disp=Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records Prior to 1850}}'', available at the FamilySearch Library, Family History Centers, and their affiliates. 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 FS Library microfilms 2,887 through 2,966 and 2.984.<ref name=":1" /> Both forms of abstraction identify the book and page where the original information can and should be found. As Barbour explains in his introduction to each bound volume: "The cards on which this list is based have not been compared with the original and doubtless errors exist."<ref>Lucius B. Barbour, ''Connecticut Vital Records: Avon, 1830-1851'' (Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1927) page after title page. FS Library film 2,967) Digital images online at FamilySearch,org and AmericanAncestors,org.</ref> <ref name=":0" /><ref>Kip Sperry, ''Connecticut Sources for Family Historians and Genealogists'' (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1980), 92. ({{FSC|228560|item|disp=FS Library Book 974.6 D23s}})[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6940140 WorldCat entry].</ref> | ||
'''Internet. '''The bound volumes for individual towns in the Barbour Collection are available on the Internet from two major sources. First, digital images of all 137 of Barbour's typescripts are viewable at American Ancestors.org's subscription website, Connecticut Vital Records (The Barbour Collection) 1640-1870.($)<ref>[https://www.americanancestors.org/ Connecticut Vital Records]</ref> Second, [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&f2=Barbour+Collection&gskw=&f21=&f30=&f11=&rg_f10__date=&rs_f10__date=0&f26=&ctx=%2FMercury%2FPages%2FCardCatListBoolean.aspx&ccType=search&db=dbatitles&ti=5561&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=mp-dbatitles&gst=&so=3&_F0003A49=1 Ancestry.com] ($), a subscription site, has indexed reprints of 119 of 137 bound towns: just 252,432 births, 218,569 marriages, and 56,008 deaths. Note: The index at Ancestry.com is incomplete; if you can't find your ancestor on Ancestry.com, it does not mean he/she is not in some other part of the Barbour Collection. | '''Internet. '''The bound volumes for individual towns in the Barbour Collection are available on the Internet from two major sources. First, digital images of all 137 of Barbour's typescripts are viewable at American Ancestors.org's subscription website, Connecticut Vital Records (The Barbour Collection) 1640-1870.($)<ref>[https://www.americanancestors.org/ Connecticut Vital Records]</ref> Second, [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&f2=Barbour+Collection&gskw=&f21=&f30=&f11=&rg_f10__date=&rs_f10__date=0&f26=&ctx=%2FMercury%2FPages%2FCardCatListBoolean.aspx&ccType=search&db=dbatitles&ti=5561&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=mp-dbatitles&gst=&so=3&_F0003A49=1 Ancestry.com] ($), a subscription site, has indexed reprints of 119 of 137 bound towns: just 252,432 births, 218,569 marriages, and 56,008 deaths. Note: The index at Ancestry.com is incomplete; if you can't find your ancestor on Ancestry.com, it does not mean he/she is not in some other part of the Barbour Collection. | ||
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