I have found it is best to contact the town clerks for birth and death records. Birth records are very difficult to obtain and especially girls birth records. I have contacted the state for death records and received negative responses and then contacted the town clerks and received very complete death records and this is for searches in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Don't know what the problem is, lack of records at the state level or poor searches. Budd Rice. Seattle, WA. On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:36:44 -0500 Peter Vanderbrouk <rpckvv@swbell.net> writes: > Didn't know they had them back then. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Becky McIntire <beckymac@neo.lrun.com> > To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:11 PM > Subject: [CRV] 1790 records > > > > Hi List > > Does anyone know how to obtain a birth certificate for the 1790's > for > > CT. I understand they are hard to get right now, don't know if > that is > > true or not. > > Thanks > > Becky > > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > > The Connecticut River Valley List covers the history and > genealogy of the > Connecticut River Valley. > > http://searches.rootweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl put > Ct-River-Valley in > the box > > http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogy library for Conn River > area) > > Listowner: NewEnglander1621@msn.com > > > > ============================== > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > Any misbehaving on this list will be warned --ONCE--no second > chances.. > THIS WARNING ONLY APPEARS ONCE > Listowner: NewEnglander1621@msn.com > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
The state records are closed indefinitely because they are being worked on. I'm not sure if they are being microfilmed or computerized or both. But something is being done. Right now the only place to get copies of vital records is through the individual towns. Birth records less than 100 years old have stringent restrictions. The law defines who can get copies of birth records. The list is very short and restricted to close blood relatives with allowances for exceptional circumstances which are also defined by the law. There are some records that are very hard to find because the families did not have the births recorded in the town records. Also that was the time period when many families moved north to New York and Vermont. Older children may have been born in CT and the younger children born somewhere else. The information that has gotten passed down is that the family was from Connecticut and the move to another state is forgotten or ignored. In the 1880 census records two of my greatgrandfather's sons say he was born in Ohio. Actually he was born in Pennsylvania, and only lived in Ohio for a few years before he was married and a couple years more after he was married. Anyone looking for a record of his birth in Ohio would not find it. Marilyn CT Budd Rice wrote: > > I have found it is best to contact the town clerks for birth and death > records. Birth records are very difficult to obtain and especially girls > birth records. I have contacted the state for death records and received > negative responses and then contacted the town clerks and received very > complete death records and this is for searches in the late 1800s and > early 1900s. Don't know what the problem is, lack of records at the state > level or poor searches. > > Budd Rice. > Seattle, WA. > > On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:36:44 -0500 Peter Vanderbrouk <rpckvv@swbell.net> > writes: > > Didn't know they had them back then. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Becky McIntire <beckymac@neo.lrun.com> > > To: <CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:11 PM > > Subject: [CRV] 1790 records > > > > > > > Hi List > > > Does anyone know how to obtain a birth certificate for the 1790's > > for > > > CT. I understand they are hard to get right now, don't know if > > that is > > > true or not. > > > Thanks > > > Becky > > > > > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > > > The Connecticut River Valley List covers the history and > > genealogy of the > > Connecticut River Valley. > > > http://searches.rootweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl put > > Ct-River-Valley in > > the box > > > http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogy library for Conn River > > area) > > > Listowner: NewEnglander1621@msn.com > > > > > > ============================== > > > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > > > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > > > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > > > > > > > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > > Any misbehaving on this list will be warned --ONCE--no second > > chances.. > > THIS WARNING ONLY APPEARS ONCE > > Listowner: NewEnglander1621@msn.com > > > > ============================== > > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! > Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! > Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. > > ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl ...type in Ct-River Valley or other mailing list > http://www.acpl.lib.in.us [large genealogy library in Indiana] > > http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogical lib for Conn River area) > > ============================== > Genealogy calendars, guestbooks and more: > Visit RootsWeb's Resource Center at > http://resources.rootsweb.com/