The indexing of the Groton, Voluntown, Sterling, and Waterford Church records book is finally complete! This book is a treasure trove of information from the Congregational Churches in all four towns between the years of 1720 to 1839. These records include admissions: 815 Baptisms 419 from the Groton First Congregational Church 396 from […]
We apologize for being late on this week’s Scholar update. With the annual appeal in full swing and the increase in patrons visiting the library we’ve been utterly swamped! Last we we uploaded a huge amount of biographies and genealogies to the Scholar, for the most part drawing from the store of scanned K, L, […]
In spite of this warm spell hinting otherwise, New England’s vibrant foliage is letting everyone know that autumn is most certainly here! With the change in the season comes an upswing in the number of visitors to the Godfrey: we’re already noticing a marked increase in the number of patrons we see each day. Since […]
It’s been a great week for adding new content to the Scholar! We’re back to genealogies and biographies, working through the Is and Ls, as well as adding some new handwritten family charts and trees. Next week you can look forward to a new batch of genealogies as we continue to work through our backlog […]
October is Family History Month so it’s not surprising that some of the most anticipated events of the year for genealogists will take place this month! Among those is the Annual Family History Seminar organized by the Connecticut Society of Genealogists. There are three very interesting presentations scheduled and it looks like it’s going to […]
Do we have some neat things to tell you about this week! First we’ve added more record books from Middletown’s First and Second Congregational Church, the Cromwell Congregational Church, and the First Congregational Church of Jeffersonville Indiana! Also new to the Scholar is a selection of supplementary materials from the Brooks Collection: excerpts from vital […]
While people from all over the world subscribe to the Godfrey’s online database most patrons who visit the library itself hail from Connecticut or nearby New England states. When someone from further away drops by it’s quite exciting! We always love to take a minute to chat with some of our long traveling visitors and […]
Last week we added all sorts of incredible works to the Scholar. Among the searchable books added are state and local histories, genealogies, biographies, and vital records from several Connecticut town. We also added two record books from the Cromwell First Congregational Church and two sets of funeral home records, the first from New Britain’s […]
We would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Due to an unfortunate accident some data was erased from the Scholar’s main page. An older version of the data was uploaded so the format has also reverted to a previous state. All content is still present on the Scholar and can be found via navigation in […]
Last week’s Irish Genealogy luncheon was a rousing success! Over thirty people gathered at the Playwright restaurant in Hamden, Connecticut last Wednesday to discuss the often frustrating research into one’s Irish ancestors. There was engaging conversation and interesting questions all around and we can only hope that the attendees had as good a time as […]
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