CENSUS RECORDS

Federal censuses for the state of Connecticut began in 1790, and continue every ten years thereafter. They are currently available through 1920, and all but 1870 and 1910 are indexed. There is a special index from 1790 to 1850 at the Connecticut State Library, taken from a duplicate set of schedules housed at the Connecticut State Archives. It is not collated in the same way as the "official" set at the National Archives and consequently cannot be used for locating a particular individual on that set of returns. However, the Connecticut version of the index includes all names in the 1850 census and not just heads of households.

Jay Mack Holbrook's Connecticut 1670 Census (Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute, 1977), combines a number of sources (tax, land, church, freeman, probate) attempting to count the heads of household by name for the entire colony in the time period 1667–73. This is the most complete pre statehood enumeration available.

No state population censuses were taken for Connecticut, although a number of inventories and enumerations of population exist (with and without names). A unique census, however, was taken by Connecticut in the twentieth century. The Military Census of 1917 listed all males between at least twenty to thirty years of age, although most towns reported those sixteen through sixty. Given along with the name and age, were place of birth and number of dependents, ability to perform certain tasks, and occupation.

Connecticut Research Sources

Parks, Roger, ed. Connecticut: A Bibliography of its History. Hanover, CT: University Press of New England, 1986.

Abbe, Elizabeth. "Conneticut Genealogical Research: Sources and Suggestions," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 134 (January 1980): 3-26.

Kemp, Thomas Jay. Connecticut Researcher's Handbook. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1981. (This guidebook provides a solid bibliography by subject and a town-by-town description of resources available.)

Sperry, Kip. Connecticut Sources for Family Historians and Genealogists. Logan, UT: Everton Publishers, 1980.

Connecticut State Archives
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel: 860-566-5650
Fax: 860-566-2133
E-mail: markj@cslnet.ctstateu.edu

Connecticut Society of Genealogists
175 Maple Street
East Hartford, CT 06118
Mail:
P.O. Box 435
Glastonbury, CT 06033-0435
Tel: 860-569-0435
203-569-0002

New England Historic Genealogical Society
101 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116-3007
Tel: 617-536-5740
1-800-AT-NEHGS
Fax: 617-536-7307
E-mail: nehgs@nehgs.org
URL: http://www.nehgs.org/

Connecticut Historical Society
1 Elizabeth Street at Asylum Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
Tel: 860-236-5621
Fax: 860-236-2664
E-mail: cthist@ix.netcom.com (library)
ctmus@ix.netcom.com (museum)

Godfrey Memorial Library
134 Newfield Street
Middletown, CT 06457
Tel: 860-346-4375
Fax: 860-347-9874
E-mail: godfrey@connix.com
http://www.godfrey.org/

Connecticut USGenWeb Project
Connecticut State Library
History and Genealogy Unit
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford 06106
(This major research repository is comprised of two parts: the State Archives and the History and Genealogy Unit.)
Connecticut Historical Society
1 Elizabeth Street
Hartford 06105

Yale University Library
Manuscripts & Archives
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240