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; selected clippings online)
Branford Digital Scrapbooks (selections about Branford from the New Haven Register and the Branford Review, 1878-1980)
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)
The library boasts an extensive collection of materials on the history of Branford including the following:
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)
Sample some of our resources with a regional twist:
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
In addition, the library features the following regional genealogy reference sources:
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