Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Franklin County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- American Repertory & Advertiser (Burlington, Vt.)1822-1823
- American Repertory (St. Albans, Vt.)1821-1826
- American Repertory (St. Albans, Vt.)1823-1826
- Champlain Reporter (St. Albans, Vt.)1809-1810
- Daily Telegraph (St. Albans, Vt.)1863-1???
- Franklin Co. Journal (Swanton, Vt.)1870-18??
- Franklin County Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1810-1811
- Franklin County Herald and Swanton Advertiser (Swanton, Vt.)1862-1???
- Franklin County Journal (St. Albans, Vt.)1856-1???
- Franklin Journal (Swanton, Vt.)1870-1???
- Franklin Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1837-1843
- Green Mountain Journal (Richford, Vt.)1878-1881
- L'avenir National (St. Albans, Vt.)1871-1876
- Le Foyer Canadien (Worcester, Mass.)1873-1875
- Le Protecteur Canadien (St. Albans, Vt.)1868-1871
- Merchant's Home Visitor (St. Albans, Vt.)1874-1880
- North American (Swanton, Vt.)1839-1841
- Richford Gazette (Richford, Vt.)1878-1927
- Richford Journal (Richford, Vt.)1881-1927
- Richford Journal and Gazette (Richford, Vt.)1927-1977
- St. Albans Adviser (St. Albans, Vt.)1808-1809
- St. Albans Daily Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1873-1878
- St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1891-1981
- St. Albans Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1843-1870
- St. Albans Messenger and Transcript (St. Albans, Vt.)1870-1873
- St. Albans Republican (St. Albans, Vt.)1839-18??
- St. Albans Semi-Weekly Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1875-1878
- St. Albans Transcript (St. Albans, Vt.)1870-18??
- St. Albans Weekly Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1873-18??
- St. Albans Weekly Messenger (St. Albans [Vt.])1873-1880
- St. Albans Weekly Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1881-19??
- St. Albans Weekly Messenger and Transcript (St. Albans, Vt.)1873-1873
- Swanton Courier (Swanton, Vt.)1877-1977
- Swanton Herald (Swanton Falls, Vt.)1852-1???
- The American Journal (Swanton Falls, Vt.)1855-1857
- The Critic (Maple Shade [Saint Albans, Vt.])1856-18??
- The Daily Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1879-18??
- The Democrat (St. Albans, Vt.)1855-18??
- The Democrat (St. Albans, Vt.)1858-1861
- The Enosburg Standard (Enosburg Falls, Vt.)1895-1977
- The Franklin County Herald (Swanton, Vt.)1852-1???
- The Franklin Republican (Sheldon, Franklin County, Vt.)1837-1839
- The Frontier Sentinel (Richford, Vt.)1866-1878
- The Health Review (Enosburgh Falls, Vt.)1886-1???
- The Reflector (Cambridge, Vt.)1886-1???
- The Repertory (St. Albans, Vt.)1826-1836
- The St. Albans Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1878-1879
- The St. Albans Advertiser (St. Albans, Vt.)1878-1880
- The St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1861-1861
- The St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1863-18??
- The St. Albans Democrat (St. Albans, Vt.)1851-1???
- The Swanton Journal (Swanton Falls, Vt.)1857-1???
- The Vermont Sentry (Swanton, Vt.)1882-1???
- The Vermont Sun (St. Albans, Vt.)1896-1???
- The Vermont Transcript (St. Albans, Vt.)1864-1870
- Vermont Daily Transcript (St. Albans, Vt.)1868-1870
- Vermont Farmers' Advocate (St. Albans, Vt.)1891-19??
- Vermont Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.)1898-1???
- Vermont Observer (St. Albans, Vt.)1940-19??
- Vermont Republican (St. Albans, Vt.)1839-18??
- Vermont State Paper (St. Albans, [Vt.])1835-1836
- Vermont Sunday News (Burlington, Vt.)1948-1977
- Vermont Temperance Herald (St. Albans, Vt.)1870-1871
- Vermont Weekly Tribune (St. Albans, Vt. ; Morrisville, Vt. ; Burlington, Vt.)1854-1???
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
- Find Franklin County's official website
We haven't checked this county's website yet, so this opens a web search. Look for an address ending in .gov, then find the town clerk and the probate court.
- The town clerk
In Vermont, land records and births, marriages and deaths are kept by each town, not the county.
- The probate court
Wills and estates, by probate district (now the probate division of the Superior Court).
- The Vermont State Archives
In Middlesex: state vital records and copies of many town and court records.
- Vermont State Archives and Records Administrationfree
The state archives in Middlesex, with vital records, court records and records of state government.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "Vermont, Franklin" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Chittenden County
Check the parent county for earlier records: Chittenden County
Later formed partly from Franklin County: Grand Isle County, Lamoille County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1792, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
Vermont's towns keep land and vital records, and the state has kept copies of births, marriages and deaths from 1857 on. Search by town, not county.