{"id":260033,"date":"2026-07-13T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/family-tree-usa-marchapril-2026-family-tree-usa\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T17:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:25:02","slug":"family-tree-usa-marchapril-2026-family-tree-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/family-tree-usa-marchapril-2026-family-tree-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Tree USA &#8211; MarchApril 2026 &#8211; Family Tree USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"text-align:center;margin:0 auto 1.5em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/64e1954208df1118.jpg\" alt=\" - Unknown book cover\" style=\"max-width:300px;width:100%;height:auto;box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,.25);border-radius:4px;\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>ancestry.com>. Coverage may vary by location, and sites may offer different versions of the collection; learn more at <lib- guides.ctstatelibrary.org\/c.php?g=211782&#038;p=11144249>. There is no such central index to records between 1850 and 1 July 1897. But you can \ufb01nd marriage and death index- es covering the period from 1 July 1897 to the early 2000s on FamilySearch <www.familysearch.org>, Ancestry.com, and the Connecticut State Library website <www.ctstate library.org>. Reclaim the Records hosts the most-comprehensive index at <www.connecticutgenealogy.org>. It current- ly covers births between 1 July 1897 and 31 December 1917, and marriages and deaths between mid-1897 and 31 December 2017.<\/p>\n<p>They have plans to add more data. Whether and how you can order original records depends on the year the event took place. FamilySearch has digitized images of some older original records (gener- ally pre-1890), and you can reach out to municipalities to request records kept there. You can also obtain post-1897 records from the state vital records office <portal.ct.gov\/dph\/vital-records\/how- to-obtain-a-record?language=en_US>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this ser- vice is generally slower than getting the record through the town. Birth records less than 100 years old are closed to the public, though they can be purchased by a descendant or member of an authorized genealogical society. There are not such privacy laws for marriage or death records, though any Social Security numbers will not be revealed to requesters who don\u2019t meet certain criteria. Despite its Colonial roots, Connecticut has little early census information to document speci\ufb01c inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>One exception, the 1669\u20131670 grain inventory for Hartford, Wethers\ufb01eld and Windsor, names heads of household. Transcribed as part of Collections of the Connecticut His- torical Society, Volume 21, it has been digitized by Family- Search and HathiTrust <www.hathitrust.org>. 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