At 1:31 PM -0400 5/16/98, robert.cowger wrote: >Hello Maryellen, > >There is a wonderful resource called the Barbour Collection that covers >Connecticut christenings and marriages. It's available in bookform and >either microfiche or microfilm. The only place I know of to get it is >Connecticut libraries or the LDS church family history centers. Good luck. The index, at least (itself many rolls of microfilm), is also available at the Onondaga County Public Library in Syracuse, New York. The Barbour Collection is incomplete, of course. Or at least, it's missing my 2nd great grandfather, Hiram HOLMES, who supposedly was born in Connecticut! - Rich Holmes Morris: FLYING BARK (Newport News) Syracuse, NY / Genealogy: BELDEN (NY), COLLINS (NY,RI), CURRIER (NY,NH), Newport News, VA HANSEN (NY), HAYES (NY,CT), HOLMES (NY,CT), [email protected] JENSEN (NY), YORK (NY,CT)