The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records is one of the last great genealogical manuscript collections to be published. Housed at the Connecticut State Library in Hartford, The Barbour Collection covers 137 towns and comprises 14,333 typed pages. The fortieth volume of the Barbour Collection covers four additional Connecticut towns (Somers, Southbury, Southington, and South Windsor), altogether referring to 29,500 early inhabitants.