Instructions

These Look-up requests guidelines need to be followed:

1. IMPORTANT: Mansfield Look-up must be the subject. Many volunteers receive 100s of E-mail messages daily from genealogy mail lists, online services, etc.  Most of the time only subject lines are scanned. If it contains nothing of interest for the volunteer, the E-mail may be trashed without being read. Some volunteers have setup filters to automatically send Look-up requests with subjects like "Mansfield Look-up" to specific mailboxes where it will be brought to their attention.

2. Limit your lookup request to 1 specific person or a married couple at most. Do not ask for everybody with X surname or an entire family group, or for hardcopies to be mailed, please [be] advise that The USGenWeb Project volunteers have been asked not to comply with such requests."

3. CAPITALIZE all surnames in the message - John SMITH.

4. Please, include dates (at least time frame), spouses, and issue if known. This data may save the volunteer valuable lookup time. Example: not having to spend time looking in 1600s sources for someone living in the early 1800s.

5. State in your request the title of the source you want searched for many volunteers are doing several sources on several sites.

6. Don't forget to the thank the volunteer.

      Thank you!

Look-up Volunteers needed!

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Records

• Published VRs of Mansfield
  
  Dimock, Susan W. Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut 1703-1850 (New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1898).

  Susan Taylor,	On sending a request to me, you will receive an automatic acknowledgment that your request has been received. If you do not receive this acknowledgment, it means either I didn't receive your request or your request did not have the correct subject; therefore, not brought to my attention for processing.
  Isabel B. Weigold,	[email protected]

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• Town Hall Look-ups
  
  Andrew Franklin, [email protected], has volunteered to do simple VR look-ups at the Mansfield Town Hall. Make your request specific and limited to one person - no general surname look-ups. Please, provide as much info as you can on the person.
  
  Requests instructions

• Published Vital Records Coventry
  
  Isabel Weigold, [email protected], has volunteered to do look-ups in:

  • Dimock, Susan W. Births, Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths, from the Records of the Town and Churches in Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844 (New York The Baker & Taylor Co., 1897).

  Requests instructions

• Barbour Collection of Willington, CT
  
  Isabel Weigold, [email protected], has volunteered to do look-ups in:

  • "Barbour Collection: Connecticut Vital Records, Willington, Births-Marriages-Deaths, 1727-1851," compiled in 1921 under the supervision of Lucius Barbour, Connecticut Examiner of Public Records from 1911-1934, original MS collection in custody of the Connecticut State Library, Hartford, CT (FHL microfilm 0002983; Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1949).

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• Early Connecticut Marrages
  
  Isabel Weigold, [email protected], has volunteered to do look-ups in:

  • Bailey, Frederic W., Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800, Seven books in One Volume (reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1968; originally published New Haven: Bailey, 1896).

  Transcription of Mansfield Marriages from this source is online.

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Histories

• History of Tolland Co., CT
  
  Isabel Weigold, [email protected], has volunteered to do look-ups in:

  • Cole, J.R. History of Tolland County, Conn. (NY:  W.W. Preston Co., NY, 1888).

  Requests instructions

• History of Willington, CT
  
  Isabel Weigold, [email protected], has volunteered to do look-ups in:

  • Demers, R. F. Modernization in a New England Town, a History of Willington, Conn. (Dalton, MA:  Studley Press, 1983)

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Surnames

• AMES
  
  Steven Morgan Sims, [email protected], has volunteered to help on AMES queries - a Mansfield connected family. Among his resources, is an AMES family tree dated 1850 containing 450 names.
  
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• BARROWS
  
  Sharon Barrows Sanzo, [email protected], has volunteered to help on BARROWS family requests. She has researched this Mansfield connected family back 14 generations and written/compiled:

  • Sanzo, Sharon Barrows, The Barrows Family, 14 Generations in Progress.

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• FENTON
  
  Richard Valentine, [email protected], has volunteered to do FENTON look-ups, a Mansfield connected family. Among his resources, are the following:

  • Fenton, Edward H. Genealogy of the Descendants of SOLOMON FENTON with His Lineage from ROBERT FENTON, the Common Ancestor of the Connecticut Fentons (New Haven, CT: n.p./s.p., 1885).

  • Weaver, William L. Genealogy of the FENTON FAMILY, Descendants of ROBERT FENTON, an Early Settler of Ancient Windham, Conn., (Now Mansfield) (Willimantic, CT: n.p./s.p., 1867).

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• HALL
  
  Cathy Schaefer, [email protected], has generously offered to do HALL look-ups in:

  • Hall, Rev. David B. The Halls of New England. Genealogical and Biographical (1883).
    
    "It has a lot of information on the Halls who lived in and around Mansfield."

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• STORRS
  
  Norma Storrs Keating, [email protected], a descendant of Samuel STORRS - one of the founders of Mansfield and of the Univ. of CT, has generously offered to do look-ups in:

  • Storrs, Charles. The Storrs Family- Genealogical and Other Memoranda  (New York, 1886)

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