The Church Records index covers about one-quarter of the church records held by the Connecticut State Library, mostly Congregational. There is no specific cutoff date for the index; most entries date before 1850, but there are some to the early 1900s. It does not include Catholic or Jewish records. The List of the Church Records we hold can be found in our Digital Collections. If there is a notation 'SLI' after the entry, the records appear in our Church Records Index. The slip index has been digitized by Family Search.
Each slip gives a complete abstract of an event, e.g., a baptism, marriage, or burial. At the bottom of the slip is a citation to the original record from which the fact was taken, including town, church, volume, and page. In most cases, there is no more information in the original record than what is shown in the transcription.
Most Church records are on microfilm. The microfilms are available here; FamilySearch has also digitized the microfilm. Please see the page about Digital Microfilm.
Are they online?
The Church Records Abstracts were digitized by Ancestry.com.
Digitized microfilm of the original Church Records can be found through a 'Place' search through the FamilySearch catalog.
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