Hours
Monday to Thursday
9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday
9 a.m to 5 p.m.
Sunday
(09/10/06 - 05/20/07)
(with a few exceptions)
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Genealogical Resources at the Blackstone Library
The following resources may prove helpful in the study of our town:
- Branford Annual Reports (1868 - present)
- Branford Census
- Microfilm (1790 – 1930, no 1890)
- Abstracted, typed records (1790 – 1880, census substitute 1890)
- Branford City Directories (1897- present, various years)
- Branford, CT (video)
- Branford Historical Society Manuscript Collection
- Branford Review (1878 – present, various years)
- Branford Scrapbooks (selections about Branford from New Haven Register, 1895 - 1976)
- Local church histories
- Local church records (abstracted, various years)
- Local historical maps
- Milestone - Branford High School Yearbook (1925 – present, all but 1933 and 1934)
- Photographs & Postcards of Branford (1912 - 1974)
- Selected Branford family genealogies
- Vital Records (abstracted, various years)
- Zoning Regulations, Town of Branford, CT
The library boasts an extensive collection of materials on the history of Branford including the following:
- Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
- Bells of Branford (Birbarie)
- Branford: A Commemorative Album, 1644 - 1994
- Branford, CT: A Survey of Architectural & Historic Resources
- Branford in the Beginning (Feld)
- Families of Ancient New Haven (Jacobus)
- Headstone Inscriptions: Town of Branford, CT
- History of New Haven County v.2: The Town of Branford (Rockey)
- History of the Colony of New Haven (Atwater)
- A History of Totoket or Branford (Thompson)
- It Happened in Branford (Prann)
- A Modern History of New Haven & Eastern New Haven County (Hill)
- Old Branford 1635 - 1935 (Carr)
- Records & Tales of Old Branford (McKenzie)
Sample some of our resources with a regional twist:
- Back Then (Indian Neck)
- A Brief History of Pawson Park from Early Times to 1916 (Indian Neck)
- A Brief History of Pine Orchard
- A Brief History of Stony Creek
- A Brief History of the Thimble Islands in Branford, CT
- Ecology of the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve
- History of the House Leased by the Branford Historical Society
- Hunting Ground (Indian Neck)
- Nature & Character of Granite Bay (Short Beach)
- On the Ebb (Short Beach)
- Ride Down Memory Lane: The Story of the Branford Trolley Museum
- Stony Creek Mapanscrap Book
- A Stony Creek Miscellany
- Summer Island: A Century of History & Nostalgia
- Thimble Islands Cruise (video)
In addition, the library features the following regional genealogy reference sources:
- Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut
- Connecticut Nutmegger (1968-present)
- Early Connecticut Marriages
- Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut
- A Genealogist’s Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
- Heads of Families in the First Census of the U.S. taken in the year 1790: Connecticut
- New England Historical & Genealogical Register (1847- present, missing 1860 - 1866)
- New England Marriages Prior to 1700
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