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From: Carol Kredt <>
Subject: Re: [CTLITCHF] Available Records for County of Litchfield and/orCity of Torrington
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:47:42 -0800
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Lynne -
Have you tried Rootsweb - surname or locality message boards, for example?
Or the Torrington library (for newspapers)? Or the Torringtgon Register of
Deeds - or whatever it's called in Connecticut (Google?)? Just a few
possibilities that come to mind...
Good luck!
Carol in Canada
--- Original Message -----
From: "Lynne Uhler" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: [CTLITCHF] Available Records for County of Litchfield and/or City
of Torrington
> Hi, All:
>
> I've just signed on to this list and have a few questions I hope you can
> help me with. I've exhausted the LDS' catalog of films for the area of
> Litchfield County I'm searching--the City of Torrington.
>
> 1) Can anyone tell me whether there are newspapers available for the
> County of Litchfield or the City of Torrington for the years 1889 to
> about 1905? If they exist, where are they and are they indexed? Very
> specifically I'm trying to find a death or divorce in the timeframe of
> the Fall of 1902 through October 1904. Several children were turned
> over to the Gilbert School in October 1904 and the assumption is that
> their father died. Their mother kept the youngest child and was
> remarried sometime around 1907, that year suggested by the age of the
> first child she had with husband #2.
>
> 2) Are there searchable court records for the City of Torrington?
> County of Litchfield? If so, how do I find them?
>
> Any advice or suggestions on where to seek records--or any resources
> list members might have--would be very much appreciated.
>
> thank you very much,
>
> Lynne
>
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