I use it all the time - try... http://www.cslib.org/handg.htm Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "W David Samuelsen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:30 AM Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library > "not found" ?? Google show it's that url. > > but something is diverting visitors away from the actual cslib.org site > > I kept getting odd response (not Google's usual page). > > David Samuelsen > > Allen & Darlene Dowhaniuk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Try this link http://www.cslib.org >> >> Darlene >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Les Mossauer" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:03 PM >> Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library >> >> >> >>>Hi Wally >>> >>>Sorry I can not get the website to open.. >>> >>>Les >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: "Wally Baker" <[email protected]> >>>To: <[email protected]> >>>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:16 PM >>>Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi Jane; >>>> >>>>The main library in Connecticut for genealogical research is the >>>>Connecticut State Library which can be reached at http://cslib.org/ > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 > >

You need the www. in that url. http://www.cslib.org/ Carol Boggs

"not found" ?? Google show it's that url. but something is diverting visitors away from the actual cslib.org site I kept getting odd response (not Google's usual page). David Samuelsen Allen & Darlene Dowhaniuk wrote: > Hi, > > Try this link http://www.cslib.org > > Darlene > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Les Mossauer" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:03 PM > Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library > > > >>Hi Wally >> >>Sorry I can not get the website to open.. >> >>Les >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Wally Baker" <[email protected]> >>To: <[email protected]> >>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:16 PM >>Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library >> >> >> >>>Hi Jane; >>> >>>The main library in Connecticut for genealogical research is the >>>Connecticut State Library which can be reached at http://cslib.org/

Hi Wally Sorry I can not get the website to open.. Les ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wally Baker" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library > Hi Jane; > > The main library in Connecticut for genealogical research is the > Connecticut State Library which can be reached at http://cslib.org/ and > their phone number is 860-757-6500. This library is located at 221 > Capitaol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106. > > Happy hunting, > > Wally Baker > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tami Johnston" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:35 AM > Subject: [GenCT] Main Library > > >> Hi: >> >> Could someone please tell me the name of the main genealogical library in >> Connecticut and where it is located and if they have a website? Can I get >> obits from this library? I need obits from the 1960s, can anyone do >> lookups if these papers are availabe, I will gladly pay reimbursement >> fees. >> >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Tami Parise >> New Orleans, LA >> >> PARISE / SALATTO / KING / CONFORTE / TOLOMEO / and many more ... >> >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Discover Yahoo! >> Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! >> >

Hi, Try this link http://www.cslib.org Darlene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Mossauer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library > Hi Wally > > Sorry I can not get the website to open.. > > Les > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wally Baker" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:16 PM > Subject: Re: [GenCT] Main Library > > > > Hi Jane; > > > > The main library in Connecticut for genealogical research is the > > Connecticut State Library which can be reached at http://cslib.org/ and > > their phone number is 860-757-6500. This library is located at 221 > > Capitaol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106. > > > > Happy hunting, > > > > Wally Baker > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Tami Johnston" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:35 AM > > Subject: [GenCT] Main Library > > > > > >> Hi: > >> > >> Could someone please tell me the name of the main genealogical library in > >> Connecticut and where it is located and if they have a website? Can I get > >> obits from this library? I need obits from the 1960s, can anyone do > >> lookups if these papers are availabe, I will gladly pay reimbursement > >> fees. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Tami Parise > >> New Orleans, LA > >> > >> PARISE / SALATTO / KING / CONFORTE / TOLOMEO / and many more ... > >> > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------- > >> Discover Yahoo! > >> Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! > >> > > > >

Hi Jane; The main library in Connecticut for genealogical research is the Connecticut State Library which can be reached at http://cslib.org/ and their phone number is 860-757-6500. This library is located at 221 Capitaol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106. Happy hunting, Wally Baker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tami Johnston" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:35 AM Subject: [GenCT] Main Library > Hi: > > Could someone please tell me the name of the main genealogical library in > Connecticut and where it is located and if they have a website? Can I get > obits from this library? I need obits from the 1960s, can anyone do > lookups if these papers are availabe, I will gladly pay reimbursement > fees. > > > > > Thanks in advance, > Tami Parise > New Orleans, LA > > PARISE / SALATTO / KING / CONFORTE / TOLOMEO / and many more ... > > > > --------------------------------- > Discover Yahoo! > Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out! >

Godfrey Memorial Library or Connecticut State Library? David Samuelsen Tami Johnston wrote: > Hi: > > Could someone please tell me the name of the main genealogical library in Connecticut and where it is located and if they have a website? Can I get obits from this library? I need obits from the 1960s, can anyone do lookups if these papers are availabe, I will gladly pay reimbursement fees. > > > > > Thanks in advance, > Tami Parise > New Orleans, LA

> Jane thanks for posting that. If I have any records that I could post > on people from certain counties, who would you suggest I contact via > email? Most counties have a USGenWeb http://www.usgenweb.org/ or AHGP http://www.ahgp.org/ site - those main pages will lead you to the state and then the county menus. Depending on what type of records there are also sites where you can submit partial cemetery readings, births, marriages or deaths. GenCircles http://www.gencircles.com/ provides a place to upload gedcoms and link with others and RootsWeb accepts transcriptions also. You could also simply submit the records to the county mailing list where they would become part of the list archives. Hope this helps. Jane

Hi: Could someone please tell me the name of the main genealogical library in Connecticut and where it is located and if they have a website? Can I get obits from this library? I need obits from the 1960s, can anyone do lookups if these papers are availabe, I will gladly pay reimbursement fees. Thanks in advance, Tami Parise New Orleans, LA PARISE / SALATTO / KING / CONFORTE / TOLOMEO / and many more ... --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!

Hi List: I am looking for the following families, if anyone else is researching them I would love to hear from you. Joseph & Rose Parise. They had 8 children: Carmen, Mollie, Josephine, Anne, Frank, Louis, and a few more. They came from Italy and settled in New Haven Co., CT. Andrea Juiseppe (Joseph) Salatto b. 1884 in Ferrindino Potenza, Italy. Immigrated to America through New York, New Jersey and finally settled in Connecticut. He married Katherine Izzo b. 1889 in Bialadino Caserta, Italy. They had about 10 children: Margaret, Lucy, Frank, Ralph, Nancy, Jennie, Ann, and others. Last but not least, Alphonse Conforte married Maria Tolomeo. They came from Italy and settled in Connecticut. They had at least 6 children: William, Josephine, Louis, James, Fred, Alice. Anyone out there researching these names? Thanks for reading, Tami Parise New Orleans, LA PARISE / SALATTO / CONFORTE / TOLOMEO / KING and a few more known ones ... --------------------------------- Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. Check it out!

Jane thanks for posting that. If I have any records that I could post on people from certain counties, who would you suggest I contact via email? Nancy-Jo Nunez A genealogist enthusiast -----Original Message----- From: Jane Devlin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:52:36 -0400 Subject: [GenCT] New Connecticut files on line 11 May 2005 - added added Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, Vital Records 1642-1896, Births, N-Y surnames, [courtesy of Dave Swerdfeger, Lyme, New London Co., CT, Cemeteries, & Cornwall, Litchfield Co., CT, Wilcox Cemetery 8 May 2005 - added Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, Vital Records 1642- 1896, Marriages, D & E surnames, [courtesy of Coralynn Brown] All these files will be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI DUNHAM - WILCOX - TROTT - KIRK over 2300 data files from CT, MA, RI, NJ, NY & MI

Thanks, Jane -- you are the best. I hope you hear that often enough, but if you don't: We really appreciate all your work!!! Karen Sullivan We're Not Your Grandmother's DAR! Visit: http://www.dar.org -----Original Message----- From: Jane Devlin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [GenCT] New Connecticut files on line 11 May 2005 - added added Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, Vital Records 1642-1896, Births, N-Y surnames, [courtesy of Dave Swerdfeger, Lyme, New London Co., CT, Cemeteries, & Cornwall, Litchfield Co., CT, Wilcox Cemetery 8 May 2005 - added Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, Vital Records 1642- 1896, Marriages, D & E surnames, [courtesy of Coralynn Brown] All these files will be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI DUNHAM - WILCOX - TROTT - KIRK over 2300 data files from CT, MA, RI, NJ, NY & MI

11 May 2005 - added added Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, Vital Records 1642-1896, Births, N-Y surnames, [courtesy of Dave Swerdfeger, Lyme, New London Co., CT, Cemeteries, & Cornwall, Litchfield Co., CT, Wilcox Cemetery 8 May 2005 - added Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA, Vital Records 1642- 1896, Marriages, D & E surnames, [courtesy of Coralynn Brown] All these files will be found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/ Jane Devlin Lake Orion, MI DUNHAM - WILCOX - TROTT - KIRK over 2300 data files from CT, MA, RI, NJ, NY & MI

After years of pleading from researchers, I am expanding into Connecticut Indexes of Testators NY - Rensselaer co NY - Vol 19 (1856-1859) (10 May) MA - Berkshire co MA - Vol 1-4 (1761-1784) (10 May) PA - Philadelphia co PA (entire file repaired to correct Volumes #) (7 May) NY - Albany Co NY - Vol 18-19 (1861-1865) (7 May) NY - Wayne Co NY - Vol. 1-3 (1886-1891) (7 May) VT - Windsor Co VT - Windsor District Vol 1-5 (1787-1821) (7 May) CT - Litchfield Co CT - Sharon District Vol. B-K (1757-1810) (7 May) NY - Richmond Co NY Vol. A (1787-1811) (7 May) These are not only ones. There are more counties and states in the indexes Just that these ones are newest additions. http://www.sampubco.com/ W. David Samuelsen SAMPUBCO

I have Debbie's permission to repost these bios to the appropriate lists. Her only request is that you keep the information free for all to use. Lisa IOWA ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION VOLUME III 1804-1926 C. R. MARKS Constant Roberts Marks is one of the most distinguished and venerable citizens of Sioux City, where he has been an active representative of the legal profession for nearly six decades and where during the past twenty years he has been associated in law practice with his son, Russell A. Marks, under the firm style of Marks & Marks. His birth occurred at Durham, Greene county, New York, on the 11th of April, 1841, his parents being Almeron and Mary (Phelps) Marks, both of whom were natives of Burlington, Connecticut, the former born October 13, 1804, and the latter May 10, 1806. His paternal ancestors migrated from London, England, to Derby, Connecticut, about 1720 and their descendants intermarried with earlier immigrants. One of these, Governor Robert Treat, hid the Connecticut charter in the Charter Oak. Mrs. Mary (Phelps) Marks, the mother of Constant Robert Marks, was descended from William Phelps and William Gaylord, who emigrated from Tewksbury, England, and settled at Windsor, Connecticut, about 1630. Aaron Gaylord, grandfather of Mrs. Mary (Phelps) Marks, was in the Revolutionary army at Boston, Massachusetts, immediately after Bunker Hill and was killed by Indians at the massacre of Wyoming in 1775. Constant R. Marks, whose name introduces this review, acquired his early education in the common schools of New York and Connecticut. He prepared for college at the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield and in the Hudson River Institute of Claverack, New York, while in 1863 he entered Yale University as a member of the class of 1867. Illness, however, prevented his graduation. He was a member of the college fraternity Alpha Delta Phi. His professional training was received as a student in the Albany Law School and he was admitted to the bar in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1867. Constant R. Marks spent the first ten years of his life at the place of his nativity and after his father's death lived with his grandfather in the ancestral home of the family at Burlington, Connecticut, there residing until 1859 save for the period of his absence at school. In the year mentioned his widowed mother removed with the family to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which was the legal residence of Constant R. Marks until the spring of 1868. He was away at school, however, and during a part of the time served in the army, and he also followed the profession of teaching. Coming west in the spring of 1868, he practiced law in Chicago for a brief period and in April of that year arrived in Sioux City, Iowa, where he took up his permanent abode and has remained an active representative of the legal profession to the present time. He practiced independently until 1874, when he became senior member of the first of Marks & Hubbard, his associate subsequently serving as a member of congress for three terms. In 1879 he became senior partner in the firm of Marks & Blood, which was maintained for four years, while in 1884 he formed an association with David Mould under the name of Marks & Mould. David Mould afterward became district judge. During the past two decades, as above stated, Mr. Marks has practiced in partnership with his son, Russell A. Marks, under the firm name of Marks & Marks. He has devoted his attention principally to general law practice but in more recent years has specialized in probate work and real estate law. Mr. Marks was also identified with financial affairs for a time. During a vacancy he served as president of the National Bank of Sioux City, which was organized in 1890 with a capital of one million dollars, and was attorney for this bank and a director in other financial institutions. Mr. Marks was one of the founders of the Sioux City Library, at first a corporation, and then taken over by the city of Sioux City, and a fine building was erected under statute as an educational corporation with a city library tax, which eventually bought the property. Mr. Marks prepared the combined plan. We quote from his autobiography: "In 1884 Sioux City wanted waterworks, but was in debt to the limit. I prepared a plan by which a private company got a city franchise with an agreement that city levy a water tax for fire protection, and had right to buy the works at cost, and in a few years got it without a dollar of profit to anyone. It is worth millions now." The military record of Mr. Marks includes service during the Civil war. On the 18th of April, 1861, he enlisted in the Allen Guard, Company K, Eighth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and the same day started for Washington, his being the second regiment to depart for the national capital at the outbreak of hostilities between the north and the south. The Sixth Massachusetts Regiment was fired into by a mob in Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861, and the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, under General B. F. Butler, went by way of Annapolis, reaching there on the 20th of April and thence going through to Washington. Part of the company to which Mr. Marks belonged was guard on the Constitution, "Old Ironsides," the naval school ship at Annapolis, for a few days, and was sent to help garrison Fort McHenry, Baltimore, for two weeks. The soldiers rejoined their regiment when General Butler opened up Baltimore. Mr. Marks contracted typhoid fever at Fort McHenry and was ill for some time, after which he returned home with his regiment. He participated in no battles. He has membership in the Grand Army of the Republic and proudly wears the little bronze button which proclaims him a veteran of the great civil strife. A stanch republican, Mr. Marks in his prime attended all political caucuses and conventions and did everything in his power to promote the success of the principles and candidates of the party but never sought public preferment for himself. In 1869, without his knowledge, he was nominated as candidate for representative in the Iowa legislature, in which he served for one term, declining another nomination. It was also without his knowledge that he was chosen a member of the Sioux City school board, on which he served in all for nine years, during three years of which period he filled the office of president. Since 1869 he has been a member of Sioux City Lodge, No. 164, I. O. O. F., in which he held all the offices years ago. Mr. Marks was one of the organizers of the Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters in 1884, served as its president for many years and is now honorary president. The Sioux City Academy of Science and Letters maintains an excellent museum in the Public Library building. It has published several annual volumes and maintains a weekly public lecture course during the winter months. Mr. Marks also belongs to the Riverside Boat Club, of which he served as president for eighteen years. He attends the services of St. Thomas Episcopal church in Sioux City. His paternal ancestors were active in the Episcopal church in Connecticut from the beginning. On the 27th of June, 1871, at Great Barrington,Massachusetts, Mr. Marks was united in marriage to Harriet Josephine Kilbourne, who was born at that place on the 25th of June, 1854, her parents being Russell and Harriett (Seeley) Kilbourne, the former born at Great Barrington, Massachusetts, May 5, 1802, while the latter was descended from an old Massachusetts and Connecticut family. Mrs. Harriet Josephine (Kilbourne) Marks is descended from Thomas Kilbourne, who migrated from England to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1634, and from his great-grandson, Hezekiah, who graduated from Yale College in 1720, and from his grandson, Robert Kilbourne, who with five brothers served in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Marks has membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution and has been an active member of the Shakespeare Club for forty years. Constant Roberts and Harriet Josephine (Kilbourne) Marks are the parents of two sons and a daughter, recorded below. (1) Russell Almeron Marks, whose birth occurred at Sioux City, March 2, 1874, was graduated from Yale University in 1895 and is now associated in law practice with his father. He wedded Marie Shelly and has three children, namely: Kilbourne Payne Marks, a freshman at Yale University; and Marion and Margery Marks, both of whom are high school students at Sioux City, Iowa. (2) Constant Roberts Marks, Jr., who was born September 29, 1876, resides at Montrose, Colorado. He married Bertha Prescott and has two children: Constant Roberts Marks (III), a junior at Boulder College in Colorado; and Marilla Marks, who is eight years old. (3) Josephine L., whose natal day was December 8, 1887, is the wife of David H. Bartlett and the mother of a daughter, Susan, who is five years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett are residents of St. Paul Minnesota. Mr. Marks has for many years taken considerable interest in the history of this region. He has written special articles for newspapers and in commemoration of local occasions. He was associate editor of "Past and Present of Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa," published by the S. J. Clarke Publishing Company in 1904. He also furnished for publication in annals of Iowa, and in a volume of the Sioux City Academy of Science, an article on Monona County (Iowa) Mormons, a Mormon colony that flourished there from about 1850 to 1862. In 1908 he published in "Historical Collections of South Dakota," Volume IV, an article on the French pioneers of Sioux City and South Dakota, and in the same publication edited the autobiography of Louis D. Letellier, an early French trader in South Dakota, who prepared the manuscript at the request of Mr. Marks. In 1924, in association with Albert M. Holman, an early settler in Woodbury county, Iowa, Mr. Marks published a book entitled "Pioneering in the Northwest," in which Mr. Holman gives an account of personal experiences in 1865 in building a wagon road by the Sawyer expedition from here to Virginia City - sixty-four wagons, about three hundred oxen and one hundred miles - which met great difficulties and was surrounded by Indians and several killed. Mr. Marks' contribution to this work consists of a record of the life of Sergeant Charles Floyd, who died on the Lewis and Clark expedition and was buried in Sioux City and a monument to whose memory was erected in 1904. Mr. Marks was one of the Iowa commissioners in charge of the state appropriation to aid in building the monument. Charles Floyd's relationship to the expedition and to the Floyd family is traced in this book. In the same volume appears the story of the life of War Eagle, local Indian chief, and his son-in-law, Theophile Bruguier, who was the second settler in this region and was a man of marked ability and historical importance. There is also a sketch of William B. Thompson, the first actual settler, and an account of his murder of an Indian trader at a dance attended by half-breeds in 1852. Debbie Clough Gerischer gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Iowa History Site iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Scott County celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm

I have Debbie's permission to repost these bios to the appropriate lists. Her only request is that you keep the information free for all to use. Lisa A Narrative History of The People of Iowa Volume IV 1931 CHARLES W. ATWOOD since 1921 has been county recorder of Pottawattamie County, and for many years was in the railroad service and is a well-qualified executive and manager and has set a high record of efficiency in the management of the county office. He was born in Pottawattamie County, January 3, 1862, son of Selah B. and Mary A. (Barritt) Atwood. His father was born in Connecticut, came out to Iowa in 1860 and spent his active life as a farmer. He was a Democrat in politics and a member of the Mormon Church, while his wife was a Methodist. Mary A. Barritt was born in Ohio and came to Iowa in 1853. Her husband, Lemuel Barritt, settled on a farm in Hazel Dell Township of Pottamattamie County, and he was frozen to death on a hunting trip in 1855. Charles W. Atwood grew up and was educated in Pottawattamie County, and in 1888 married Isabelle C. Prentice. She was also born in Pottawattamie County, daughter of Alexander Prentice, a pioneer farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Atwood have two sons, Ernest L. and Walter H., both residents of La Grange, Illinois. Walter for the past twelve years has been a salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Company. He married Helen Barghausen, of Council Bluffs, and has two children, Mina Belle and Walter, Jr. Mr. Atwood is a Royal Arch Mason, is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, a member of Lodge No. 531, B. P. O. Elks, and is a Republican in politics. His wife is a Methodist. Mr. Atwood spent the first twenty-one years of his life on the home farm, and on July 26, 1883, became a clerk in the railroad offices of Council Bluffs and spent thirty years in railroad and traffic work, finally resigning in 1913. For three and a half years of this time he was traffic manager for the M. E. Smith & Company wholesale dry goods house. Mr. Atwood was elected county recorder of Pottawattamie County in 1920, and has filled the office since 1921, having been elected for five consecutive terms. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project Scott County, Iowa Gerischer family site

Has anyone published, or put online RECENT RESEARCH, 1850 TO 1930????? for Connecticut All of the Barbour and Hale collections only go to 1850's, and there are omissions and mistakes. Jim - Connecticut > The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 39] > Sherman (1802-1850) & Simsbury (1670-1855), $25.00 > > The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 55] > Windsor 1637-1850, $40.00

The published Barbour vital records are available from Genealogical Publishing Co. at http://www.genealogical.com/default.asp?afid= The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 39] Sherman (1802-1850) & Simsbury (1670-1855), $25.00 The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records [Vol. 55] Windsor 1637-1850, $40.00 If you don't wish to spend the $$$, you can borrow them from the New England Historic Genealogical Society circulating library, but you have to be a member to do so. You can find more information at http://www.newenglandancestors.org/ It's worth every penny; I've borrowed dozens, maybe hundreds, of books from them over the years. Or you can probably find them at a local library that has a good genealogy room. Karen Sullivan We're Not Your Grandmother's DAR! Visit: http://www.dar.org -----Original Message----- From: Robert A. Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 1:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [GenCT] 1600s Hartford I want to thank everyone at this site who were kind enough to reply to my Elizabeth, John, Thomas Ferguson query -- such great people you are! My query asked about the vital records of Simsbury and Dover 1600's. From your comments, Dover wasn't in CT. But where could I search for Windsor and Simsbury records from mid 1600's forward? Thanks again, Bob Ferguson CA

I want to thank everyone at this site who were kind enough to reply to my Elizabeth, John, Thomas Ferguson query -- such great people you are! My query asked about the vital records of Simsbury and Dover 1600's. From your comments, Dover wasn't in CT. But where could I search for Windsor and Simsbury records from mid 1600's forward? Thanks again, Bob Ferguson CA

The town of Dover Plains, NY, is in the area of NY right near the Connecticut border. This is the area that was once called the Oblong or Oblong Patent. I don't pretend to be an expert on the Oblong, but I do live in Orange County, NY, just a bit west of that area, and I know that many families from CT settled there. However, the timeline is all wrong, so I'm not sure how this all relates to Bob's family. But I believe that Ginny is correct; I've never heard of a Dover in CT, and I've been working on CT families for a long time. If you want more information on the land patents in Dutchess County, especially the Beekman Patent, Frank Doherty has a nice website at http://www.beekmansettlers.com/. Karen Sullivan We're Not Your Grandmother's DAR! Visit: http://www.dar.org -----Original Message----- From: Ginny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GenCT] 1600's Hartford Hi Bob, i was born here in Ct, and Simsbury is in Hfd. Cnty alright, but as for Dover, have you checked out NY? My mom's people came from Dover, dutchess (Cuchess) Cnty in NY state. Back then, i believe the boundaries were different. I know that somewhere in the time, there was this great area where NY, Ct an dpart of Ohio and some of the west end of Mass were grouped, as was Me, NH and Vt until borders were changed. I have found this with several of the ancestral names on both my mom and dad and first husbands people. I don't recall ofr know of a Dover in Ct. I worked for the phone com. for years and can't remember one here. Of course there could have been a name change way back, but it's a thought for further exploration, if you get stuck. Good luck and happy hunting. Ginny "Robert A. Ferguson" <[email protected]> wrote: Will a king person direct me to where I might find the vital records for Simsbury and Dover, Hartford, Ct., between 1610 and 1630? I'm particulary interest in the children of Thomas Ffurson. The were Elizabeth Ferguson b abt 1615 at Simsbury, Hartford county, and John Ferguson b abt 1618 at Simsbury or Dover, Hartford county, and Thomas Ferguson b abt 1620 in Dover. Best Regards, Bob Ferguson CA