Connecticut Resources
Here are some resources that are available for
genealogical research in Connecticut:
For vital records, write to:
- Vital Records
Department of Health Services
P.O. Box 340308
Hartford, CT 06104-0308
Fax: (860) 263-6723
- They have birth, marriage, and death records since July 1897. Fax for costs. For divorce records, check with the Clerk of the Superior Court in the County where the divorce was granted. For birth records, death records, and marriage records, check with the Registrar of Vital Statistics in the town where the event took place.
For information on State Archives & Libraries, write to:
- Connecticut State Library
History and Genealogy Unit
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: (860) 566-3692
- Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30-5:00, closed Saturday, Sunday, and all state holidays.
- They have original diaries, pre-colonial to 1850 transcripts of town vital records, church records, probate records, land records (pre-colonial to 1900), a large selection of family history books, rosters from various wars, index to naturalization for all of New England, maps and photos, cemetery records, tax records, court records, censuses from 1790 to 1850, and a card file on veterans' deaths and places of burial.
For information on state Genealogical Societies, write to:
- Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.
175 Maple Street, East Hartford (location)
P.O. Box 435, Glastonbury, CT 06033-0435 (mailing address)
Phone: (860) 569-0002
- Publications: The Connecticut Nutmegger, Connecticut Society of Genealogists Newsletter.
- The Stamford Historical Society
1508 High Ridge Rd.
Stamford, CT 06903
Phone: (203) 329-1183
