{"id":920,"date":"2009-06-26T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/friday-finds\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T23:08:15","slug":"friday-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/friday-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Finds &#8211; 06\/26\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/FridayFinds.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMy research focus this week has been my Connecticut ancestors, including the WEBSTER, HOPKINS, JUDD, BRONSON, GRAVES, and LEWIS lines.\u00a0 Fortunately there are some good references available, which I will share in today\u2019s Friday Finds column.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOK<\/strong>\u00a0 Lucius Barnes Barbour, <em>Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut<\/em> (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1977) \u2013 Fortunately this book is available at my local genealogy library, but I also purchased it (along with other books) on the CD collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/products\/Connecticut%20Local%20and%20Family%20Histories\/7515.html\">Connecticut Local and Family Histories<\/a> available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogical.com\/\">Genealogical.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DATABASE \/ INDEX<\/strong>\u00a0 <i><a href=\"http:\/\/content.ancestry.com\/iexec\/?htx=List&amp;dbid=1062&amp;enc=1&amp;offerid=0%3A7858%3A0\">Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)<\/a>, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/content.ancestry.com\/iexec\/?htx=List&amp;dbid=1034&amp;enc=1&amp;offerid=0%3A7858%3A0\">Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)<\/a><\/i>, and <i><a href=\"http:\/\/content.ancestry.com\/iexec\/?htx=List&amp;dbid=1063&amp;enc=1&amp;offerid=0%3A7858%3A0\">Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)<\/a><\/i><\/i> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.\u00a0 These databases are based on the index, <em>The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records Vol. 1-55 <\/em>compiled by Lorraine Cook White (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002).\u00a0 They are available through <a href=\"http:\/\/ancestry.com\/\">Ancestry.com<\/a> (with subscription).<\/p>\n<p><strong>WEBSITE<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravesfa.org\/\">The Graves Family Association<\/a> \u2013 A collection of information pertaining to the GRAVES surname.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to have found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravesfa.org\/gen065.htm\">family tree for George GRAVES<\/a>, my twelfth great-grandfather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I\u2019ve learned or found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,300],"tags":[310,314,317,318,321,346,399,349],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","tag-family-bronson","tag-family-graves","tag-family-hopkins","tag-family-judd","tag-family-lewis","tag-family-webster","tag-location-us-connecticut","tag-friday-finds","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-eQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}