Connecticut CT

As of 2000, Connecticut has two area codes: 203 for Fairfield and New Haven Counties and 860 for the rest of the state.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Bridgeport

3135 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06432
(203) 335-3638

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
335 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
(860) 236-4571

Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven
P.O. Box 3251
New Haven, CT 06515-0351
(203) 392-5860

Jewish Historical Society of Greater Stamford
PO Box 3326
Stamford, CT 06905-0326
(203) 321-1373, ext. 150
Fax: 203-322-6081
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Jewish Historical Society of Waterbury
PO Box F
Waterbury, CT 06798

SYNAGOGUES IN CONNECTICUT

The Connecticut Jewish Ledger , 924 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, CT 06107 annually publishes, "All Things Jewish." They have current lists of synagogues, cemeteries, funeral parlors, chevra kadisha and stonecutters in Connecticut with accurate telephone numbers and addresses. The telephone number is 1-800-286-6397. The fax is 860-231-2428. Source: Lenn Zonder, President, Congregation Sinai, 426 Washington Avenue, PO Box 309, West Haven, CT 06516-0309; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Hale Collection (1934): (The Connecticut State Tombstone Collection, circa 1934): Edward A Cohen, 25 Stoneham Drive, West Hartford, CT 06117 (203) 523-5521. (NOTE: Shomer Shabbos: Please do not call on Friday nights or Saturdays) and Lew Goldfarb, 22 Marilyn Road, South Windsor, CT 07064, who worked with Edward Cohen. If there is a number under the number of graves column, they have found those cemeteries. The date shows when they completed that cemetery. For more up-to-date information, contact them. (total 25,044 graves):
Volume 1 Introduction Years
Hale-Summary 1780-1934
Hale-towns A to G 1780-1934
Hale-Fairfield 1780-1934
Hale- Hartford 1780-1934
Volume 2 HARTFORD: Hartford, Ct: Garden, Waverly, Tower, Cleveland Ave Cemeteries
General Map
Names A-L 3100 names
Names M-Z 2500 names
Volume 3 Garden, Waverly, Tower, Cleveland Ave Cemeteries
This disk shows how the stones are laid out, walking through the cemetery and marching down the stones.
NWmap
SWmap
NEmap
Volume 4 Mahl Avenue and Old North Cemetery (Central)
Names
MahlMap walking through
Old North map
Volume 5 Zion Hill Cemetery and Southern Hartford - (Incomplete as 6/1992)
Names
Map

• BOOK: Jewish Cemeteries of Hartford, Connecticut: The Cohen/Goldfarb Collection, Vol. 1 by Edward A. Cohen and Lewis Goldfarb. Published in 1995 by Heritage Books, Inc.