Local History Resources

• Branford Annual Reports (1868 – present)
• Branford Census
  • Microfilm (1790 – 1940, no 1890)
  • Abstracted, typed records (1790 – 1880, census substitute 1890)
  • Online through Ancestry Library from a Blackstone Library computer (1790 – 1940, no 1890)
• Branford City Directories (1897- present, various years)
• Branford Historical Society and Blackstone Library Manuscript Collection
• Branford Review (1878 – 2008, various years, on microfilm; some years available online from the link below)
• Branford Newspaper Articles (selections about Branford from the Branford Review, New Haven Register and the Journal Courier)
• Local church histories
• Local church records (abstracted, various years)
• Local historical maps
• Milestone – Branford High School Yearbook (1925 – present, missing 1933 and 1934)
• Photographs & Postcards of Branford (1912 – 1974)
• Selected Branford Family Genealogies
• Vital Records Indexes (abstracted, various years)

History of Branford Books*:

• Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records Index
• Bells of Branford (Birbarie)
• Branford: A Commemorative Album, 1644 – 1994
• Branford, Connecticut: A Survey of Architectural & Historic Resources
• Branford in the Beginning (Feld)
• Damascus Cemetery (Bouley)
• Families of Ancient New Haven (Jacobus)
• Headstone Inscriptions: Town of Branford, CT (Hale Collection)
• History of New Haven County (Rockey) – Branford section
• History of the Colony of New Haven (Lambert) – Branford section
• A History of Totoket or Branford (Thompson)
• It Happened in Branford (Prann)
• A Modern History of New Haven & Eastern New Haven County (Hill) – Branford and Stony Creek
• Old Branford 1635 – 1935 (Carr)
• Records & Tales of Old Branford (McKenzie)

Regional History Books*:

• Back Then (Indian Neck)
• A Brief History of Pawson Park from Early Times to 1916 (Indian Neck)
• A Brief History of Stony Creek
• A Brief History of the Thimble Islands in Branford, CT
• Ecology of the Stony Creek Quarry Preserve
• History of the House Leased by the Branford Historical Society
• Hunting Ground (Indian Neck)
• Nature & Character of Granite Bay (Short Beach)
• On the Ebb (Short Beach)
• The Pine Orchard Shore: a brief history and a glimpse at the summer of 1916
• Ride Down Memory Lane: The Story of the Branford Trolley Museum
• Stony Creek Mapanscrap Book
• A Stony Creek Miscellany
• Summer Island: A Century of History & Nostalgia

Regional Genealogy Reference Books*:

• Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut
• Early Connecticut Marriages
• Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut
• A Genealogist’s Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
• Heads of Families in the First Census of the U.S. taken in the year 1790: Connecticut
• New England Marriages Prior to 1700, supplement and 2nd supplement

*Print titles available at the Blackstone. Ask for help retrieving these books at Reference.