This list of links for members is distinct from the list on the Local History page. The links below are devoted specifically to genealogy research. A few of the links are repeated on other pages of this web site as a convenience to users. Also included are links to several complete books available online about early Middletown families.

Middletown & central Connecticut genealogy

The Connecticut Index of Jane Devlin's "Dunham-Wilcox" web site
http://www.dunhamwilcox.net/0_ct-index.htm
A treasure-trove of Middletown and Middlesex County records, including vital records (Barbour), cemetery records, wills, deeds, the 1853 Centennial Address of David D. Field, Middletown Upper Houses by Charles Collard Adams (1908), and much more.

Middlesex County USGenWeb Project
http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/comiddlesex/
Assemblage of resources, links, & records for Middlesex County towns.

Middletown USGenWeb Home Page
http://www.ctgenweb.org/county/comiddlesex/Middletown/index.html
Assemblage of resources, links, & records for Middletown, including A Record of the Births, Marriages, and Deaths of the First Proprietors of Lands in Middletown, Connecticut, from Vol. 1 of Middletown records (Pub. in NEHGS Register, Vol. 14, 1860).

Ray Brown's Place for New England Genealogy
www.rays-place.com/
Miscellaneous vital records, biographies, town histories, cemetery records, and more.

General Connecticut genealogy

The Connecticut State Library Genealogy Page
https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/home
This page presents a comprehensive collection of the library's history and genealogy subject guides and finding aids.

Connecticut GenWeb Home Page
http://www.ctgenweb.org/
This site is a provides a single entry point to the GenWeb sites for all Connecticut cities and towns. Since the GenWeb sites depend on data contributed by volunteers, be advised that the information for any given county or town is variable.

Colonial Connecticut Records 1636-1776
Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636-1776
Colonial Connecticut Records (CCR) is a digital collection created by the staff at the University of Connecticut Libraries and supported generously by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center and the Connecticut State Library. This site relies on Internet Archive’s American Libraries editions of these records.

Connecticut History Illustrated
https://ctdigitalarchive.org/
Connecticut History Illustrated (CHI) --- part of the Connecticut Digital Archive --- brings together the Connecticut history-related digital resources of libraries, archives, museums, galleries, historical societies and other cultural heritage institutions in Connecticut. It contains material as varied as the history of the state, from documents to images, from maps to audio and video covering the entire spectrum of work, play, and life in Connecticut. CHI was built on the success of Connecticut History Online (CHO), the pioneering collaborative digital collection of Connecticut history resources. All content from CHO is included in Connecticut History Illustrated.

Mystic Seaport Museum
www.mysticseaport.org/library/home.cfm
If you have Middletown ancestors who were involved in the maritime trades, it is worth checking the online databases at Mystic Seaport Museum.

University of Connecticut Libraries Historical Scanned Map Collection
http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/historical_maps.html
The University of Connecticut Historical Map Collection is available for online viewing as well as downloading in several file formats. The collection includes both the 1877 and 1915 "bird’s eye view" maps of Middletown.

Mailing list & message board

RootsWeb Mailing List for Middlesex County
https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=ctmiddle
This was a monitored mailing list, CT-MIDDLE-L, a place to post genealogical queries that would be read by those with similar interests. The list is now closed, but its archives remain useful for genealogical clues and tidbits.

SMFSD Message Board at RootsWeb
https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.connecticut.smfsd
The SMFSD message board at RootsWeb was a place to post queries about Middletown's first settler families. Now closed along with other ancient RootsWeb boards, its archives can still be useful.

General genealogy web sites

RootsWeb Home Page
www.rootsweb.com
RootsWeb is a free genealogy web site with how-to information for the beginning genealogist, plus links to databases, mailing lists, message boards, and much more.

Cyndi's List
www.cyndislist.com
Cyndi's List is the ultimate index of Internet links (over 250,000) to genealogy web sites.