The Barbour Collection

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The Barbour Project

Did you know that the Vital Records of early Connecticut were collected by Lucius Barnes Barbour?

Help us Recreate them!

Last Update: October 3, 2003

Here's the concept. We all have family from Connecticut. If they lived from the earliest days to the mid 1800s, their vital records were PROBABLY recorded in the Barbour Collection. Go to your files. Find your photocopies. Get them keyed in! The data in your file cabinets could be just what someone else needs!

Please join Here's how you can help.

Key your records from the Barbour collection. The Barbour is sorted by CITY, then TYPE OF RECORD, then FAMILY NAME.

At first I wanted to Keep It Simple. Use "Notepad" or a simple text editor. No fancy formatting. But we ALSO want the Volume and Page number to be able to be nicely columnized. PROPOSED Each record on a line by itself. AFTER the record, follow by ".V." then the Volume number, then ".P." then the Page? That way I can easily write a program to "HTML-ify" the information. If you prefer to submit a file that is already in HTML format, do it this way:

TABLE
TR TD COLSPAN=3 SURNAME HERE /TD /TR
TR TD Vital Record Info /TD TD Volume /TD TD Page /TD /TR
. . .
/TABLE

So that for each name we would end up with a table that looked like this:

WARNER

Abigail, m.Jedediah Barnes, b.of Farmington,Dec.3, 1730 LR5 13

Benjamin,s.Demas,b.Mar.3,1774 LR17 440

Charles A.,m.Matilda Clark,b.of Berlin,Dec.12,1836,by Rev.Noah Porter LR47 95

Cloe,d.Thomas(s.of Thomas),b.Aug.12,1738 LR6 7

. . . . etc . . .

Send an email to: gar@askgar.com
Give it a subject like this: BARBOUR:NAME OF CITY:STARTING NAME:ENDING NAME
If you only have one surname, use the same name twice
So, something like: BARBOUR:FARMINGTON:WARNER:WARNER
Or: BARBOUR:HARTFORD:FOOTE:GRAVE

Barbour Contributions Received So Far

City	# Surnames	# Records
Farmington	1	34
Waterbury
		Welton Family	ALL of 'em!

The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records -- available for purchase!

SPECIAL NOTE ON THE TOWN OF NEW HAVEN

As you might have noticed above, the Town of New Haven is not included in this list. This is primarily because a much richer resource is already available. "Families of Ancient New Haven" is a NINE VOLUME set documenting New Haven and its daughter towns from 1638 to 1800 for births and deaths, and 1810 for marriages. Also includes data from daughter towns: Hamden, Bethany, Woodbridge, East Haven, North Haven, and West Haven.

Families of Ancient New Haven -- 3 volume reproduction of 9 volume original.
Families of Ancient New Haven -- All 9 volumes on a single CD!
Ancestor Spy also has Vital Records of New Haven on Microfiches

OTHER EXLUDED TOWNS

The Barbour Collection also excludes the towns of Bolton, Coventry, Enfield, Mansfield, Norwich, and Vernon for the same reason. Exhaustive compilations of their vital records were already prepared. (BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE! IF YOU DO, LET ME KNOW SO I CAN PUT UP LINKS TO THEM!!!)

Bolton Vital Records to 1854, Vernon Vital Records to 1852 - Available on Microfiche

More Recent Vital Records

Connecticut Vital Records Information -- this site tells how to contact each Vital Records Clerk in today's Connecticut.

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WARNER
Abigail, m.Jedediah Barnes, b.of Farmington,Dec.3, 1730	LR5	13
Benjamin,s.Demas,b.Mar.3,1774	LR17	440
Charles A.,m.Matilda Clark,b.of Berlin,Dec.12,1836,by Rev.Noah Porter	LR47	95
Cloe,d.Thomas(s.of Thomas),b.Aug.12,1738	LR6	7
. . . . etc . . .