Strafford County, New Hampshire Genealogy Records

Listed record inventories

Selected holdings and indexes for Strafford County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.

See the repository's descriptions and search options

Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.

Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.

Where to find the records

• Strafford County official website

  Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the town clerk, the county registry of deeds and the probate court, and any online record search the county offers.

• The town clerk

  Births, marriages and deaths, kept by each town.

• The county registry of deeds

  Deeds and other land records.

• The probate court

  Wills and estates, by county (now the Circuit Court's probate division).

• The New Hampshire State Archives

  In Concord: provincial, court and state records. Birth, marriage and death records are with the state's Division of Vital Records.

• New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Managementfree

  The state archives in Concord, with provincial, court and state government records.

• FamilySearch Catalogfree

  Search by place for "New Hampshire, Strafford" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.

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Boundaries and parent counties

Formed from: Land not yet in any county

Later formed partly from Strafford County: Belknap County, Carroll County

Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1769, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.