FAMILY HISTORY/GENEALOGY RESOURCES
available at the library in the following locations
On Connecticut shelf | In Office | On top of Vertical File Cabinets
On Connecticut shelf
  • Barbour Collection of Vital Records
          Portland, Prospect, Redding, Ridgefield

  • Christ Church Parish: the first 250 years

  • Cultural Resource Survey of Redding, Connecticut, Preservation Computer Services, Inc, Mamaroneck, 1988

  • Phase II Cultural Resource Survey of Redding, Connecticut, Preservation Computer Services, Inc, Mamaroneck, 1995

  • Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing 150th Anniversary 1816-1968

  • Hale Collection
         Cemetery headstones from all of Reddingís cemeteries

  • History and Archeology of Poverty Hollow
         By Stuart A. Reeve and Kathleen Von Jena

  • An Historical and Archeological Survey of Redding, Connecticut
         By Stuart A. Reeve

  • History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (2 volumes)
         By Donald Lines Jacobus

  • Luemily Ryder: Reddingís Last One-Room School Teacher (DVD)

  • Margaret Wixted: An Historianís Perspective (DVD)

  • On the Town by Joan D. Ensor(2 volumes)
         Growing up in Long-ago Redding
         Some Later Years in Long-Ago Redding

  • Redding Center National Register Historic District. By the Redding Historic Study Committee, Redding, 1992

  • Redding Times
         October 1955-June 1960

  • Revolutionary War Records of Fairfield Connecticut by Donald Lines Jacobus

  • Todd's History of Redding by Charles Burr Todd

  • WPA 1934 Building Survey of Redding, Connecticut


In Office
  • First Church of Christ, Congregational ñ Brief History

  • Georgetown and its People by Irene Baldwin

  • Georgetown United Methodist Church 1790-1990

  • Little Egypt: Black History in Three New England Towns by Calista K. Cleary

  • Redding and Easton by Daniel Cruson

  • Redding Remembered

  • Redding Remembered II
         Oral History Project of John Read Middle School 1979

  • Revolutionary Soldiers of Redding, Connecticut by W. E. Grumman

  • Settlement of Redding by Susan Babbit


On top of Vertical File Cabinets
  • Diary of Walker Bates (1856-1870)

  • Dr. Goldhorn House Slides, circa 1938 in print

  • Federal Writersí Project WPA
         Census of Old Buildings in Redding, Connecticut

  • Historic Houses of Redding (Based on Margaret Wixted's research, compiled by Jean Taylor)
         Individual House Histories of 50 historic houses in file cabinets

  • Inventory of Historic Homes
         By Stuart Reeves

  • Moses Knapp/Samuel Osborn House History by Bob Beecroft

  • Municipal Historic Preservation Information

  • Redding Times Keyword Index (1955-1960)

  • Vertical File Headings and Details