Connecticut Family Histories #1, 1600s-1800s

These books are comprised of family history articles that originally appeared in Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volumes I-III and Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes I-VIII. Genealogies of Connecticut Families is composed of a collection of articles that were originally published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, while Families of Ancient New Haven, compiled by America's foremost genealogist Donald Lines Jacobus, comprises the first eight volumes of what became one of America's premier periodicals, The American Genealogist.

The materials cover the entire state of Connecticut and even include information on some families whose ancestry is associated with other areas, largely Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and the Midwest. What you can learn about each listed individual varies, depending on the original article. However, in this collection you will find birth, death, marriage, probate, land, and court records. These records may provide you with information such as the dates and locations of important family events, as well as the names of the participants, witnesses, or other family members.

As you look through this data set's index, you may occasionally find two entries that are exactly the same, except for the way in which the given name or surname is spelled. This is usually because the original spelling of the name was unclear, so two separate entries were generated for the index. You may also see that some of the names contain question marks, as in "Williamson, ???". These question marks indicate that a name was unknown or difficult to transcribe from the original.

Copyright information for each volume can be found on its copyright page. If you wish to cite information found in one of this data set's volumes, we recommend using the following format:

Author's Last Name, Author's First Name. "Book Title." Place of Publication: Publisher. Copyright Date. Page Numbers. Reproduced on Genealogy.com's Online Data Set #179 (Connecticut Family Histories #1, 1600s-1800s).

Abbreviations Used in Families of Ancient New Haven

In Families of Ancient New Haven many abbreviations are used to denote sources, types of records, and towns. The legend to the abbreviations below may be helpful when reading through the text.

Abbreviations for Sources of Information

These abbreviations are made up of two parts, the first signifying the town, the second, the kind of record. For example:

• In "NHV," "NH" means New Haven and "V" the vital statistics of that town.
• In "WdT1," the "Wd" means Woodbridge and "T" a gravestone inscription, the figure following the "T" designating a particular graveyard.
• In "HC2," the "H" stands for Hamden and "C" for a Congregational church there, the figure following the "C" specifying the particular church.
• "NoHx" means the Episcopal church of North Haven, "x" always standing for an Episcopal church and "NoH" for North Haven.

A list of general symbols for towns and kinds of record are given below, followed by a list (arranged alphabetically by symbols) of the specific record sources.

Books Included in this Data Set

Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volume I (A-Ga)

Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volume II (Ge-O)

Genealogies of Connecticut Families, Volume III (P-W)

Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes I-III

Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes IV-VI

Families of Ancient New Haven, Volumes VII-VIII