Early Connecticut marriages

Question

 Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800: Book 2

Frederic William Bailey

 

- January 1, 1896

Bureau of American ancestry

 

- Publisher

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=hM0UAAAAYAAJ&rdid=book-hM0UAAAAYAAJ&rdot=1

 

Comments

All the books in the series are available for free online, at multiple locations. Here is a list:

• Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 

The above list also includes the link to An Annotated Table of Contents.

The books were republished in 1982 (7 books in one volume) with additions/corrections.

Answer 1

Thanks, Eddie, for bringing up this series. Now I can ask my questions!

There are 7 volumes available on Archive.org:

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/earlyconnecticut1896bail v. 1], New Haven, CT: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, Price, Lee & Adkins Co., Print., 1896.

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092205826 v. 2], New Haven, CT: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, Price, Lee & Adkins Co., Print., 1896.

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092205834 v. 3], New Haven, CT: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, 1898.

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092205842 v. 4], New Haven, CT: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, Price, Lee & Adkins Co., Print., 1899.

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/earlyconnecticut05bail v. 5], New Haven, CT: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, Price, Lee & Adkins Co., Print., 1902.

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092205867 v. 6], New Haven, CT: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, Price, Lee & Adkins Co., Print., 1904.

Frederic W. Bailey, ed., ‘’Early Connecticut Marriages, as Found on Ancient Church Records, prior to 1800’’, [https://archive.org/details/cu31924092205875 v. 7], Worcester, MA: Published by the Bureau of American Ancestry, The Davis Press, 1906.

Questions:  Are there any problems with this series we should be aware of?  Does Bailey tend to be accurate in his transcriptions?  Are there any major known gaps in his coverage of the available materials?

Comments

Many of these marriages are also covered in the Connecticut Church records indexes (at the Connecticut State Library but available on Ancestry.com.) I haven't noted any major discrepancies when I've found a marriage in both places.

Thanks for the list of all of them

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Happy to oblige, Anne.  Thank you for the answer to my question.  Do you happen to know whether the databases at the library and at Ancestry are all or partly based on these volumes?

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The Connecticut Church Record Indexes were built from the original church book records. The CT Library archives built the indexes, so users wouldn't wear out the originals. Bailey predates the indexes and also would have used the original church books.

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Thank you for the clarification, Anne.

Answer 2

Thanks good to know, on some of them, they sure are interesting to try to understand all I can say is good luck, and I hope people can understand them.