Archives and Libraries provide large amounts of information for your research. The links below will provide you with some information and prepare you for a visit to a library.
Connecticut Archives
Connecticut Genealogical Societies
Connecticut Historical Societies
- Connecticut Town Historical Societies
- The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America
- The Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Connecticut
- Connecticut Society of Genealogists
- Connecticut Historical Society
Connecticut Town Historical Societies
- Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives – Madison
Archives are filled with several extensive databases that house nearly 90,000 entries that document the history of Madison, Connecticut.- One Page Histories
Over the years, we’ve put the little details together that make Madison, Connecticut what it is today. Whether you’re new to the town or a life long resident looking to learn more, have fun reading our One Page Histories about the town of Madison.
- One Page Histories
- Clinton Historical Society
- George S. Flynn Library
The George S. Flynn Library contains more than 20,000 documents, photographs, maps, clippings, and other materials chronicling the history of Clinton and its families.
- George S. Flynn Library
- Danbury Museum & Historical Society
- Enfield Historical Society
The Enfield Historical Society has limited genealogical resources, most of which are available through other sources. - Fairfield Museum and History Center
- Historic mural restoration, Old Black Rock Harbor, 1810
- Database of enslaved people and owners in Fairfield
The Vincent J. Rosivach Register of Slaves in Fairfield, Connecticut (1639-1820) is a comprehensive database of enslaved individuals in colonial and post-colonial Fairfield. - Gustave Whitehead and the Wright brothers.
Jane’s All About Airplanes’ 2013 announcement that Gustave Whitehead should be credited with having flown in Fairfield and Stratford in 1901 puts an authoritative stamp on an achievement that had previously lacked recognition by most aviation historians. - Materials on African-Americans in the Fairfield area
This guide describes historical records and files in the Fairfield Historical Society library that relate to African Americans. This includes the status of free blacks, examples of slavery and names and family information of African Americans who resided in the Town of Fairfield or Fairfield County during the Colonial period up through the 19th Century of U.S. History. - Materials on women’s history in the Fairfield area
The purpose of this annotated guide is to provide the researcher, teacher, and student of Fairfield with information about the resources available on the topic of women’s history. - Materials on the history of Black Rock
A Guide to the Fairfield Museum and History Center’s Collections Relating to Black Rock, Connecticut - Old Burying Ground cemetery – Google map showing some of the grave sites of historical figures
- Franklin Historical Society
- Guilford Keeping Society
The Guilford Keeping Society collects, preserves and shares the history and heritage of Guilford, Connecticut for present and future generations. - Hamden Historical Society
- Hamden Historical Society Library
The Hamden Historical Society Library was inaugurated in 1984 and provides a secure, central place to hold and display items which shed light on Hamden’s past. The collection consists of artifacts, primary source documents, organization records, photographs, and like materials. It is housed on the third floor of the Miller Library.
- Hamden Historical Society Library
- Harwinton Historical Society
- Harwinton Historical Society, Inc. was incorporated in 1970. Its collection contains approximately twenty-five hundred items including farm implements, carpentry and blacksmith tools, household furnishings, scrapbooks, photograph albums, clothing, many CDs and books. The Society is proud of its restored 1840 Schoolhouse, Barn Museum, Country Store, Blacksmith Shop and operating Shingle Mill.
- Historical Society of East Hartford
- Newsletters
The HSEH newsletter is printed 5 times during each Historical Society year – about the beginning of Sept., Nov., Jan., March, and May.
- Newsletters
- Historical Society of Glastonbury
- Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford (JHSGH) is dedicated to collecting and preserving historical documents, photographs and memorabilia of the Jewish community of Greater Hartford. Its mission is to collect, preserve and catalog historical, political, economic and social documents, photographs, memorabilia and oral histories relating to the Jewish people of this community. - Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
- The Founders
- Jeremy Adams
- Matthew Allyn
- Francis Andrews
- William Andrews
- John Arnold
- Andrew Bacon
- John Barnard
- Thomas Barnes
- Robert Bartlett
- John Baysey
- Thomas Beale
- Nathaniel Bearding
- Matthew Beckwith
- Mary Betts
- John Bidwell
- Richard Billings
- Thomas Birchard
- Peter Blachford
- Thomas Blatchley
- Thomas Bliss, Jr.
- Thomas Bliss, Sr.
- William Bloomfield
- James Bridgman
- John Bronson
- Richard Bronson
- Nathaniel Browne
- Captain Thomas Bull
- Thomas Bunce, Ensign
- Benjamin Burr
- Deacon Richard Butler
- William Butler
- Clement Chaplin
- Dorothy Hooker Chester
- Richard Church
- John Clarke
- Nicholas Clarke
- William Clarke
- James Cole
- Sergeant William Cornwall
- John Crow
- Thomas Crumpe
- Captain John Cullick
- Philip Davis
- Fulk Davis
- Robert Day
- Nicholas Disborough
- Deacon Joseph Easton
- William Edwards
- Edward Elmer
- Nathaniel Ely
- James Ensign
- Zechariah Field
- Thomas Fisher
- John Friend
- Samuel Gardner
- Daniel Garrett
- William Gibbons
- Deacon Richard Goodman
- Elder William Goodwin
- Ozias Goodwin
- Seth Grant
- Deacon George Grave
- Bartholomew Green
- Rebecca Taylor Greenhill
- Samuel Greenhill
- Thomas Gridley
- Samuel Hale
- Thomas Hale
- John Hall
- Stephen Hart
- William Hayden
- Governor John Haynes
- Henry Hayward
- Reverend John Higginson
- William Hills
- John Holloway
- William Holton
- Reverend Thomas Hooker
- Governor Edward Hopkins
- John Hopkins
- Thomas Hosmer
- George Hubbard
- Thomas Hungerford
- Blaynch Hunt
- William Hyde
- Jonathan Ince
- John Jennings
- Nicholas Jennings
- Thomas Judd
- Ralph Keeler
- Nathaniel Kellogg
- William Kelsey
- Samuel Ketcherell
- John Latimer
- Edward Lay
- John Lee
- William Lewis
- Captain Richard Lord
- Dr. Thomas Lord, Jr.
- Thomas Lord, Sr.
- Richard Lyman, Jr.
- Richard Lyman, Sr.
- John Marsh
- Matthew Marvin
- Reinold Marvin
- John Maynard
- John Moody
- Deacon Isaac More
- John Morris (Morrice)
- Jarvis Mudge
- Benjamin Munn
- Captain Thomas Munson
- Joseph Mygatt
- Thomas Olcott
- James Olmsted
- Dr. John Olmsted
- Nicholas Olmsted
- Captain Richard Olmsted
- William Pantry
- William Parker
- Deacon Paul Peck
- William Phillips
- John Pierce
- Thomas Porter
- Stephen Post
- Abraham Pratt
- John Pratt
- William Pratt
- John Purchas
- Nathaniel Richards
- Priscilla (Wakeman) Richards
- Thomas Richards
- Richard Risley
- Thomas Root
- William Ruscoe
- Nathaniel Ruscoe
- Robert Sandford
- Thomas Scott
- Thomas Selden
- Richard Seymour
- John Skinner
- Arthur Smith
- Giles Smith
- Sergeant Thomas Spencer
- William Spencer
- John Stanley
- Thomas Stanley
- Timothy Stanley
- Thomas Stanton
- Deacon Edward Stebbins
- George Steele
- John Steele
- George Stocking
- John Stone
- Reverend Samuel Stone
- John Talcott
- Thomas Thompson
- Thomas Upson
- Robert Wade
- William Wadsworth
- Henry Wakeley
- James Wakeley
- Samuel Wakeman
- Andrew Warner
- John Warner
- Richard Watts
- William Watts
- Richard Webb
- Governor John Webster
- Governor Thomas Welles
- William Westley
- William Westwood
- Elder John White
- Samuel Whitehead
- Major William Whiting
- John Wilcox
- Gregory Wilterton
- Governor George Wyllys
- The Founders
- Lebanon Historical Society
- Lyme Public Hall & Local History Archives
- Madison Historical Society
- Monroe Historical Society
- New Fairfield Historical Society
- New London County Historical Society
- Old Saybrook Historical Society
- Frank Stevenson Archives & Martha Soper Library
Frank Stevenson Archives, Welcome Center & Martha Soper Library contains books, maps, ledgers, diaries, documents, photographs, mid-20th century newsreels, genealogical material, architectural histories and Native American material. There are also cemetery records, family papers and histories, log books and books on history and Native Americans.
- Frank Stevenson Archives & Martha Soper Library
- Orange Historical Society
- Town History
- The Academy Museum
The Academy also houses the Mary Rebecca Woodruff Research Center, which is the largest repository of Orange Historical materials. Appointments can be made for scholarly research visits and the staff also welcomes serious inquiries by phone or email. The visitor will find a host of materials including primary source documents, artifacts, photographs and negatives, maps, historical newspapers and clippings, scrapbooks, and municipal documents such as tax, school, voting and property records.
- Plainfield Historical Society
- Preston Connecticut Historical Society
- Ridgefield Historical Society
- Wintonbury Historical Society-Bloomfield
- Bloomfield History
- Filley House
- Captain Oliver Filley House History
- The Filley Family and Early Tinware
- Captain Oliver Filley Family
by Eileen Phelps, Genealogical Historian - A Short Biography of Captain Oliver Filley
by Sharon Steinberg - Ancestors of Jay Humphrey Filley (Ahnentafel Report)
by Janis Langston - Filley Family Tombstone Inscriptions with photographs
by Eileen Phelps, Genealogical Historian; inscriptions
updated to April 2004 & photographs by Janis Langston
- Captain Oliver Filley Family
- Genealogy
- The Browns of Wintonbury, Makers of Brown Drums
- Ancestors of Jay Humphrey Filley compiled by Janis Langston
- Chris Nielson & Sons: A Family History
- Pinney Genealogy from Stiles
- Rowley Genealogy from various sources
- Historic Cemeteries
- Latimer Hill Cemetery
- Old Wintonbury Cemetery
formerly Old North Cemetery
- Local History Articles