Researching Your Branford Ancestor

• Branford Town Hall has vital records from the mid-1600’s. Early records are not fully indexed; full certificates with indexes from 1890 - present. Note: Only those persons who are members of a recognized Connecticut genealogical society are permitted to see birth records for the last 100 years.
• Blackstone Library and Branford Town Hall have the Barbour Collection for Branford (index to births, deaths, and marriages covering the years 1644 –1850).
• Blackstone Library has vital records 1646 – 1863, transcribed by Jane Bouley.
• See also the Branford Review at the Blackstone Library.

• Branford Town Hall has books kept by the sexton for burials in Branford from 1884.
• Blackstone Library has a cemetery index known as the Hale Collection.

• Blackstone Library has a copy of the 1670 Branford census.
• Blackstone Library has microfilmed copies of the Branford census for 1790 – 1930, except for 1890 (the census that was destroyed in a fire in 1921).
• Blackstone Library has typed copies of the Branford censuses of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 and an 1890 census substitute, transcribed by Jane Bouley.
• Blackstone Library has an index to the 1790 Connecticut census; indexes for other years can be found at the New Haven Colony Historical Society and the Connecticut State Library.

• Congregational Church has original records; these records are transcribed and available at the Connecticut State Library.
• The Connecticut State Library has Episcopal Church records on microfilm.
• Other records may exist at the individual churches.
• Blackstone Library has Trinity Church Records 1784 -1895, transcribed by Jane Bouley.

• Branford Town Hall has vital records from the mid-1600’s. Early records are not fully indexed; full certificates with indexes from 1890 – present.
• Blackstone Library and Branford Town Hall have the Barbour Collection for Branford (index to births, deaths, and marriages covering the years 1644 –1850).
• Blackstone Library has vital records 1646 – 1863, transcribed by Jane Bouley.
• See also the Branford Review at the Blackstone Library.

• Branford Town Hall has Land Record volumes indexed by grantor (seller) and grantee (buyer) from the colonial period.
• Blackstone Library and Branford Town Hall have a variety of maps.
• Blackstone Library has land records for Volumes 17 – 25 (1800’s), transcribed by Jane Bouley.

• Branford Town Hall has vital records from the mid-1600’s. Early records are not fully indexed; full certificates with indexes from 1890 – present.
• Blackstone Library and Branford Town Hall have the Barbour Collection for Branford (index to births, deaths, and marriages covering the years 1644 –1850).
• Blackstone Library has vital records 1646 – 1863, transcribed by Jane Bouley.
• Blackstone Library has Early Connecticut Marriages Prior to 1800 edited by Frederic W. Bailey and New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey.
• See also the Branford Review at the Blackstone Library.

• Blackstone Library has a list, by regiment, of Branford soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War.
• Blackstone Library has a number of Civil War regimental histories and a list of Branford Civil War soldiers, compiled by Jane Bouley.
• Blackstone Library has a list of veterans buried in Branford.
• Blackstone Library has WWI Service Records for Connecticut.
• Branford Town Hall has some 20th century military records.

• Branford Town Hall has probate records from 1850, indexed in a card file. Earlier probate records can be found in the Guilford and New Haven probate offices.
• The Connecticut State Library has microfilmed copies of probate records.