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Hartford CT Stake
Family History Center
1000 Mountain Road
Bloomfield, CT 06002
Phone: (860) 242-1607

Manchester Family History Center
34 Woodside Street
Manchester, CT 06040
Phone: 860-643-4003

Southington Family
History Center
750 Meridan-Waterbury Tpk.
Southington, CT 06489
Phone: (860) 628-0617

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Berlin Historical Society

Burlington Historical Society

East Windsor
Historical Society
P. O. Box 363
East Windsor Hill, CT 06028

Enfield Historical Society

Historical Society of
East Hartford

Historical Society of Glastonbury

Manchester Historical Society

Salmon Brook Historical Society of Granby, Connecticut

Simsbury Historical Soceity

South Windsor
Historical Society
P. O. Box 216
South Windsor, CT 06074

Wintonbury Historical Society

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Hartford County Connecticut Genealogy & Family History Resources
Cities, Towns, Villages & Communities:
Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bristol, Burlington, Canton, Collinsville, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Manchester, Marlborough, Milldale, New Britain, Newington, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, South Windsor, Southington, Suffield, Unionville, Warehouse Point, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor,
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Established: May 10, 1666
Original County
County Seat: Hartford

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Connecticut State Vital Records
Health Department Vital Records
410 Capitol Avenue, 1st Floor
Hartford, Connecticut 06134
Phone: 860-509-7897

Hartford County Connecticut Vital Records
Hartford County Clerk
95 Washington Street
Hartford, CT 06103
Phone: (203) 566-3170
Note: County governments were abolished in 1960 in Connecticut and the only local government consists of cities and towns, with exception of the judicial & state marshall system.
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The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Hartford (1635-1855)
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The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Wethersfield 1634-1868
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Suffield, Connecticut Vital Records
Town records from 1681-1916; Birth, death & marriage records from 1760-1807. Information on 500+ surnames.
Early Connecticut Marriages
As Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. 7 books in 1
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Social Security Death Index
The Social Security Administration Death Master File contains information on millions of deceased individuals with United States social security numbers whose deaths were reported to the Social Security Administration. This file now contains over 89 million death records.

Census Links - Hartford County CT
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Farmington, Hartford County, CT 1790 Census
Hartford County CTGenWeb Project
Links to Online Census Records Hartford Co., Connecticut
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Search 1880 US Federal Census Free Online
FamilySearch.org - A service provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Search the United States Indian Census 1885-1940
Ancestry.com ~ The Indian Census schedules are census rolls usually submitted each year by agents or superintendents in charge of Indian reservations, as required by an act of 4 July 1884 (23 Stat. 98).
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Cemeteries of Hartford County
Interment.net is a publisher of cemetery transcriptions for use by genealogists and local historians. Search and browse cemetery burial records from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Hartford County
The website that tells where the dead politicians are buried

Carmon Community Funeral Homes Obituraries
Hartford County Connecticut Newspaper Abstracts
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Hartford Courant Death Notices Memoriams
Obituary Collection
This database is a compilation of obituaries published in U.S. newspapers, collected from various online sources. ~ Ancestry.com
Read Historic Newspapers Online
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of approximately 4,588,000 individuals and references thousands of different records compiled from everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed, you may find the following information: name, age, year and place of arrival, and the source of the record.

Farmington Soldiers in the Colonial War
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USGenWeb Pensions Project
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Bristol, Connecticut 1889 Panoramic Map
Snap Shots of the Past
Connecticut Towns and Counties
Connecticut State Library
1895 Hartford County Connecticut Map
This atlas was originally printed in 1895 by the Rand McNally Corporation. ~ LivGenMi.com
Original Land Owners Indexed in the Government Land Office Records Database
County by county, state by state maps for original settlers whose purchases are indexed in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management database

A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records
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Research Guide to Probate Records at the Connecticut State Library

Search City & Farm Directories
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription
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Hartford County Connecticut Genealogy
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Hartford County Connecticut Resources at RootsWeb
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Original Proprietors of Hartford CT 1636
Hartford County CTGenWeb Project
Wethersfield, Hartford County CT Genealogy
This is for the exchange of genealogy information related to Wethersfield CT.
Windsor, Hartford County CT Genealogy
This is for the exchange of genealogy information related to Windsor CT
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Descendants of James Forbes of Hartford, Connecticut (c. 1635-1692)
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Families of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut
The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut; Including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks, and Ellington, 1635-1891
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Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut
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First Settlers of Windsor, CT
as recorded in Town Records of 1640 - USGenWeb Archives
Wethersfield CT, Early Settlers
This is for information on settlers who arrived in Wethersfield CT prior to 1651.
A Family Odyssey: The Connecticut Churchills and the Settling of America 1635-1900
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Hartford Black History Project
Black Genesis: A Resource Book for African-American Genealogy
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Southington Connecticut History
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Windsor Connecticut History
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History and People of Connecticut
A historical look at Connecticut from its earliest inhabitants through World War II.
By: Rickie Lazzerini

National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County Connecticut
The Noah Webster House Museum of West Harford History
The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society
The Antiquarian & Landmarks Society, Connecticut’s only statewide museum-based historical organization, promotes interest in special places by preserving and interpreting properties and collections of importance to Connecticut’s heritage.

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