Connecticut Resources Online

Contributed by Grant Smith

Connecticut Birth, Marriage and Death Records
Births, marriages, civil unions and deaths since July 1, 1897 – Connecticut Dept. of Public Health
http://www.ct.gov/dph/cwp/

For information on vital records prior to July 1, 1897, you must contact the town where the vital event occurred. Following is the web site that provides the contact list for Connecticut Town and City clerks.
http://www.ct.gov/dph/lib/dph/hisr/PDF/CT_TownCityClerks.pdf
Some towns in Connecticut are part of a larger community. For example, the town of Willimantic is a part of the larger community of Windham, CT. The following web site provides an Excel spreadsheet that contains the names of towns and the larger community to which they belong.
http://www.ct.gov/ecd/cwp/

Connecticut State Library (history and genealogy unit)
http://www.cslib.org/handg.htm
http://www.cslib.org/vitals.htm

Connecticut City and Town websites
http://www.ct.gov/ctportal/
Click on the Government link in the left column then click on City and Town websites

Connecticut Death Indexes
http://www.deathindexes.com/connecticut
Connecticut Obituaries
http://www.obitlinkspage.com/obit/ct.htm
http://www.gendir.com/connecticut_obituaries_g.html

Connecticut Land Records
http://www.land-records.com/land-records/connecticut-land-records.htm
http://www.cslib.org/landrec.htm

Connecticut Military Records
Revolutionary War
http://www.cslib.org/revwar.htm
Civil War
http://www.chs.org/kcwmp/

Connecticut Census Records
http://www.ancestry.com
http://www.heritagequest.com
http://www.researchguides.net/census/state

Connecticut Historical Society
http://www.chs.org/library/
Connecticut Historical Society Genealogy collections
http://www.chs.org/library/geneal.htm
University of Connecticut Genealogy guides
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/research/guides/genealogy.pdf
Colonial Connecticut Records
http://www.lib.uconn.edu
Database name: Colonial Connecticut Records

Connecticut Society of Genealogists, Inc.
http://www.csginc.org
The Connecticut Nutmegger database
http://www.NewEnglandAncestors.org
Once you have reached this web site, you must login using your subscription to the New England Historic Genealogical Society in order to access this database. After you have logged in, select Databases. Then select the letter “T” from the Alphabetical list. Then search the list of databases for “The Connecticut Nutmegger.” Click on “The Connecticut Nutmegger” and you will be able to search for a Person or Place.

http://www.ctgenweb.org
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html