The Barbour Collection of Connecticut town vital records at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford is one of the last great genealogical manuscript collections to be published. Covering 137 towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, this magnificent collection of birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of General Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner ...

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Written By: Charles M. Andrews

"This is a kind of folk archeology that I love. In a nation now nearly catatonic from the ravages of suburbia, Leff does a fine job of recovering the lost memories, textures, rhythms, flavors, and feelings of authentic town life." -- James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere "[David Leff] moved to ...

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Seamen's Protection Certificates were authorized by Congress in 1796 to identify American merchant seamen as citizens of the U.S. and as such entitled to protection against impressment by the British Navy, a major cause of the War of 1812. Seamen's Protection Certificates were issued long after that conflict, in fact right up to the Civil War, and they constitute an important proof of ...

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Written By: Ruth Priest Dixon

Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour's celebrated collection ...

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Written By: Lorraine Cook White

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Written By: Nellie Judson Beardsley Holt

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Written By: Alexander F Saunders

Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour's celebrated collection of ...

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Written By: Nancy E. Schott

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Written By: Thomas Henry Tudor

Covering 137 Connecticut towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, the Barbour Collection of Connecticut birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. This present series, under the general editorship of Lorraine Cook White, is a town-by-town transcription of Barbour's celebrated collection of ...

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