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The Barbour Collection of Connecticut town vital records at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford is one of the last great genealogical manuscript collections to be published. Covering 137 towns and comprising 14,333 typed pages, this magnificent collection of birth, marriage, and death records to about 1850 was the life work of General Lucius Barnes Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911 to 1934. In the summer of 2002, Genealogical Publishing Company reached a major milestone with the release of the final volumes in this series--Volumes 51-55. The Barbour Collection is now the single largest series of books ever published by GPC. Volume 1 in the series, offered on this page, is a transcription of the vital records of the first three towns covered in the collection--Andover, Ashford (comprising 90 percent of the volume), and Avon.

For information on the other Barbour volumes available from GPC, click on the links below:

Volume 2 Barkhamsted-Bozrah

Volume 3 Branford-Bridgeport

Volume 4 Bristol-Burlington

Volume 5 Canaan-Canterbury

Volume 6 Canton-Clinton

Volume 7 Colchester-Cornwall

Volume 8 Danbury-Derby

Volume 9 Durham-East Haddam

Volume 10 East Hartford-East Lyme

Volume 11 East Windsor-Ellington

Volume 12 Fairfield-Farmington

Volume 13 Franklin-Glastonbury

Volume 14 Goshen-Greenwich

Volume 15 Griswold-Groton

Volume 16 Guilford

Volume 17 Haddam-Hampton

Volume 18 Hartland-Hebron

Volume 19 Hartford

Volume 20 Huntington-Killingly

Volume 21 Killingworth-Lisbon

Volume 22 Lebanon

Volume 23 Litchfield

Volume 24 Lyme

Volume 25 Madison-Monroe

Volume 26 Middletown

Volume 27 Middletown, Part II

Volume 28 Milford-New Hartford

Volume 29 New London

Volume 30 New Milford-North Stonington

Volume 31 Newtown-North Haven

Volume 32 Norwalk-Norwich

Volume 33 Orange-Plainfield

Volume 34 Plymouth-Pomfret

Volume 35 Preston

Volume 36 Portland-Ridgefield

Volume 37 Rocky Hill-Salisbury

Volume 38 Saybrook-Sharon

Volume 39 Sherman-Simsbury

Volume 40 Somers-South Windsor

Volume 41 Sterling-Stratford

Volume 42 Stamford

Volume 43 Stonington

Volume 44 Stafford-Tolland

Volume 45 Suffield

Volume 46 Thompson

Volume 47 Torrington, Union, Voluntown

Volume 48 Wallingford

Volume 49 Warren, Washington, Waterford, Watertown, Westbrook

Volume 50 Waterbury

Volume 51 Weston, Westport, Willington

Volume 52 Wethersfield

Volume 53 Wilton, Winchester, Wolcott, Woodbridge, Woodbury, Woodstock

Volume 54 Windham

Volume 55 Windsor

In all the volumes, the entries are in strict alphabetical order by town and give name, date of event, names of parents (in the case of births and sometimes deaths), names of both spouses (in the case of marriages), and sometimes such items as age, occupation, and specific place of residence.