The Genealogy Room is located on the 3rd floor of the library, and holds the Julia Brush special collection, a nationally-recognized collection of over 900 volumes on the families and local history of neighboring Connecticut towns. Bequeathed to the library after the death of Julia Brush, née Clark, in 1942, The collection has been continually expanded using money that was put into trust by another provision of the Brush will.

If you are searching for Newtown ancestors, the library and the Genealogy Club of Newtown have put together some helpful binders. Those binders contain information on the:

• 1890 Census Substitute for Newtown

• Cemetery Inscriptions: Danbury, CT

• Cemetery Inscriptions: St. Paul’s Church, Huntington, CT

• Genealogy Room Lateral Files Contents

• Hale Collection of Headstone Inscriptions for Newtown

• Julia Brush Collection – Family Files – Ask at Reference Desk

• Newtown Bee Vital Records 1889-1953; Newtown Bee Obits Index 2004-2009

• Newtown Congregational Church Records 1715-1946

• Newtown Supplementary Vital Records

• Newtown: Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1711-1852

• Stratford: Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1639-1840

• Family Histories

For more information the Library website: https://www.chboothlibrary.org/learn-and-research/genealogy/