- 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.