Connecticut Genealogy (Libraries, Societies...) Hidden Genealogy Nuggets

Connecticut Genealogy

There are currently 169 towns or cities in the state of Connecticut. Most of these towns have historical societies which collect and preserve the towns historical documents and records. There are many hidden genealogy nuggets to be found in the records collected by your local historical society. They may have old school registers with pupil rosters. Most historical societies would have some records to help you find your family during the difficult years of 1890, the year the census was burned. We have included a link to all the Connecticut Historical Societies we could find.

Here on the Hidden Genealogy Nuggets website we have a genealogy database with tens of thousands of Connecticut records loaded. You can search our database for free all the time. If you find a record of your ancestor, click on the details to find what Connecticut Facility has the original document.

The following Connecticut Genealogy links might be just what you needed to break that proverbial genealogy brick wall. There’s a wide variety of links ranging from historical societies to libraries and more. Each of these websites may have records of genealogical interest in Connecticut. Please explore these links, visit their websites and support their activities by donations and/or joining their organizations. These websites contain a mixed bag of transcribed records and links to their catalogs which might contain just the right record group you are looking for.

Although this page is focused on Connecticut Genealogy only, this website supports and promotes societies and organizations in any part of the country who would like to have their records included for free on this website.

Connecticut Statewide Genealogy

Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society

State: Crestleaf

Fairfield County, Connecticut Genealogy

Bethel: Bethel Historical Society

Bridgeport:

Brookfield: Brookfield Historical Society

Danbury: Danbury Museum and Historical Society

Darien: Darien Historical Society

Easton: Easton Historical Society

Fairfield: Fairfield History and Museum Center

Greenwich: Greenwich Historical Society

Monroe: Monroe Historical Society

New Canaan: New Canaan Historical Society

New Fairfield:

Newtown:The Genealogy Club of Newtown, Connecticut has a great 1890 census substitute for Newtown, CT listed on their website. You will not find this census substitute listed anywhere else on the web.

Newtown: Newtown Historical Society

Newtown: Newtrown BMD Record Index 1850 - 1895

Norwalk (& Rowayton): Norwalk Historical Society

Norwalk (& Rowayton): Rowayton Historical Society

Redding:

Ridgefield: Ridgefield Historical Society

Shelton: Shelton Historical Society

Sherman: Sherman Historical Society

Stamford: Stamford Historical Society

Stratford: Stratford Historical Society

Trumbull: Trumbull Historical Society

Westport: Westport Historical Society

Weston: Weston Historical Society

Wilton: Wilton Historical Society

Hartford County, Connecticut Genealogy

Litchfield County, Connecticut Genealogy

Barkhamsted: Barkhamsted Historical Society

Bethlehem: Bethlehem Historical Society

Bridgewater:

Canaan (& Falls Village): Falss Village Canaan Historical Society

Colebrook: Colebrook Historical Society

Cornwall: Cornwall Historical Society

Goshen: Goshen Historical Society

Harwinton: Harwinton's Municpal Historian

Kent: Kent Historical Society

Litchfield: Litchfield Historical Society

Morris: Morris Historical Society

New Hartford: New Hartford Historical Society

New Milford (& Gaylordsville): New Milford Historical Society

New Milford (& Gaylordsville): Gaylordsville Historical Society

Norfolk: Norfolk Historical Society

North Canaan:

Plymouth: Plymouth Town History

Roxbury:

Salisbury: Salisbury Association

Scotland: The Huntington Homestead

Sharon: Sharon Historical Society

Thomaston: Thomaston Historical Society

Torrington: Torrington Historical Society

Washington: Gunn Library and History Museum

Watertown: Watertown Historical Society

Warren: Warren CT History

Winchester:

Woodbury: Old Woodbury Historical Society

Middlesex County, Connecticut Genealogy

New Haven County, Connecticut Genealogy

Ansonia:

Beacon Falls: Beacon Falls Historical Society

Bethany: Bethany Historical Society

Brandford: Brandford Historical Society

Cheshire: Cheshire Historical Society

Derby: Derby Historical Society

East Haven: East Haven Historical Society

Guilford: Guilford Historical Society

Hamden: Hamden Historical Society

Madison: Madison Historical Society

Meriden: Meriden Historical Society

Middlebury: Middlebury Historical Society

Milford: MIlford Historical Society

Naugatuck: Naugatuck Historical Society

New Haven: New Haven Museum

North Brandford: Totoket Historical Society

North Haven: North Haven Historical Society

Orange: Orange Historical Society

Oxford: The Oxford CT Municiple Historian's Page has a great collection of records. There are transcriptions of old diaries, town reports, sexton burial records and more.

Oxford: The Oxford's Past website has a very complete set of cemetery transcriptions for Oxford, Seymour and some surrounding towns. It also has some genealogies.

Oxford: The Oxford's Library has a small collection of county and town histories. It also has a book of vital records for Oxford.

Oxford: The Oxford Historical Society has a collection of records which need to be cataloged.

Prospect: Prospect Historical Society

Seymour: The Seymour Public Library has a great collection of city directories, county and local histories and some books on town records.

Seymour:The Seymour Historical Society has quite a number of records on Seymour which you will not find anywhere else. These include school records, diaries and business records.

Southbury: Southbury Historical Society

Wallingford: Wallingford Historical Society

Waterbury: Mattatuck Museum and History Center

West Haven: West Haven Historical Society

Wolcott: Wolcott Historical Society

Woodbridge: Amity and Woodbridge Historical Society

New London County, Connecticut Genealogy

Bozrah:

Colchester: Colchester Historical Society

East Lyme: East Lyme Historical Society

Franklin:

Griswold: Griswold Historical Society

Groton: Mystic River Historical Society

Lebanon: Lebanon Historical Society

Ledyard: Ledyard Historical Society

Lisbon: Lisbon Historical Society

Lyme: Florence Griswold Museum

Montville:

New London: New London County Historical Society

North Stonington: North Stonington Historical Society

Norwich: Norwich Historical Society

Old Lyme: Old Lyme Historical Society

Preston: Preston Historical Society

Salem:

Sprague: Sprague Historical Society

Stonington: Stonington Historical Society

Voluntown:

Waterford: Waterford Historical Society

Tolland County, Connecticut Genealogy

Andover: Andover Historical Society

Bolton: Bolton Historical Society

Columbia: Columbia Historical Society

Coventry: Coventry Historical Society

Ellington: Ellington Historical Society

Hebron: Hebron Historical Society

Mansfield: Mansfield Historical Society

Somers: Somers Historical Society

Tolland: Tolland Historical Society

Union: Union Historical Society

Vernon: Vernon Historical Society

Willington: Willington Historical Society

Windham County, Connecticut Genealogy

Connecticut Genealogy Links at Hidden Genealogy Nuggets