The Connecticut Historical Society collections include printed genealogies, Connecticut town and city directories (incomplete runs), and local histories (including published vital records, church records, and cemetery inscriptions) for New England and some non-New England states. In addition, the collections include the following:

Reference Material
Genealogical Manuscripts
Microfilm
Microfiche
Genealogical Periodicals
Online Resources

CHS Members may also borrow materials from our Genealogical Loan Collection

• Published passenger and immigration lists
• Military lists
• Biographical dictionaries
• Hereditary registers
• Genealogical indices and bibliographies
• Library catalogues
• Guides for ethnic research
• Census indices—New England, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 1790-1850

Collections compiled by professional genealogists for clients or by individuals working on their own families. Material is filed by family or town, and includes compiled family histories, data sheets, notes, copies of bible records, miscellaneous abstracts of probate, land, church, and vital records. Includes the work of Donald Lines Jacobus, Julius Gay, H. W. Brainard, D. W. Patterson, Edna Miner Rogers, E. E. Case, and L. B. Barbour.

• Barbour Index (abstracts of CT vital records to 1850 +/-)
• Connecticut census and Soundex for 1900
• Corbin Collection (western Massachusetts)
• Torrey's notes to New England Marriages Prior to 1700
• Connecticut newspapers
• Charles R. Hale Collection (headstone inscriptions and death notices to 1934 +/-)

• Holbrook Collection of Massachusetts Vital Records
• I. G. I. for the United States and Canada (1988)
• Boston Transcript genealogical column
• Hartford Times genealogical column and index
• The Connecticut Historical Society Collections

• New England Historical and Genealogical Register
• Connecticut Nutmegger
• The American Genealogist
• Mayflower Descendant, Quarterly
• New York Genealogical and Biographical Register
• National Genealogical Society Quarterly
• Connecticut Ancestry

The Library is also a subscriber to a number of online genealogical research sites, and from the CHS you will have full access to these online databases. We also have CD-ROM resources that you may make complete use of.