Vital records, as their name
suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and
death. Maintained by civil authorities, they are prime sources of
genealogical information; but, unfortunately, official vital records are
available only for relatively recent periods. These records, despite their
recent creation in the United States, are critically important in
genealogical research, often supplying details on family members well back
into the nineteenth century.
The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy,
by Loretto Szucs and Sandra Luebking.
Connecticut State Vital Records Office
Health
Dept Vital Records 410 Capitol Ave., 1st Floor
Hartford, CT 06134 P.O. Box 340308
MS#11VRS (860) 509-7897
Procedure to obtain a Birth, Marriage, or Death
Certificate
The vital records at the Connecticut Department of
Public Health (DPH) are being microfilmed which currently precludes this
office from issuing certified copies of records. If you require a copy of
a certificate for a birth,
death
or marriage which
occurred in Connecticut, please contact the town clerk of the town or city
where the event occurred.
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For earlier records, contact the Registrar of Vital Statistics in the
town or city where event occurred.
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Death Index, 1949-1996
This large index (over 1.2 million entries) to deaths in Connecticut
contains name of decedent, sex, race, death date, death place, place of
residence, age, marital status at death, and more. Many individuals in the
index were born in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Armed with information in the death index, researchers may obtain death
certificates from the appropriate town clerk in Connecticut (public
records at the state level are temporarily closed). For more information,
please contact the Connecticut Department of Public Health, Vital Records
Section, P.O. Box 340308, Hartford, CT 06134-0308. Tel: (860) 509-7897.(Requires Ancestry.com
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Form For earlier records, contact the Registrar of Vital Statistics in the
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