We’re working our way through the Bs with this week’s batch of genealogies and biographies uploaded to the Scholar! It’s also a great week for Middletown researches! Two more volumes of the Doolittle Funeral Home Records are now available on the Scholar as well as a portion of the midwife record of Sebastiana Grimaldi Misenti, […]
The funeral home business has gone through some dramatic changes over the years. For quite a while funeral homes as we know them today simply did not exist. Caskets were made at the local furniture store, viewings were held at the home of the deceased or deceased’s family, and funeral services were held at the […]
This week we’ve added more biographies and genealogies from our library of scanned books. About half the books added this week have to do with families or people with last names starting with A or B. Another volume of the Doolittle Funeral Home Burial Records is also on the Scholar and the indexing for the […]
If you’ve used the Godfrey Scholar in the last day or so you may have noticed that things are not as they once were. But do not fear! All of the books and records are still right where they are supposed to be: we’ve just made a few formatting improvements to make your research experience […]
This week we really dug into our backlog of scanned books to bring a huge number of biographies as well as some genealogies to the Scholar! You’ll notice that most of the books we’ve added focus on people whose last names start with an A: this is because we’ve started from the beginning of our […]
On Wednesday the New York Times ran an article highlighting two historians’, Dr. Cooper and Dr. Bendroth, race to find and preserve old church documents. Many of these records have incredible historical significance that absolutely cannot be duplicated in anything else and, tragically, it truly is a desperate race to try and save them. Fire, […]
In 1924 two brothers from Middletown, CT opened the Dunn Funeral Home at 530 Main Street. The Godfry Library is lucky enough to have exclusive access to the records of the Dunn Funeral Home records from 1910 to 1966, from before the official location was even opened! Before the official funeral home opened caskets were […]
A phone call from a curious Godfrey Scholar prompted us to think once again about library founder Fremont Rider’s greatest contribution to the field to genealogy, the American Genealogical-Biographical Index. For those who are unfamiliar, the American Genealogical Biographical Index, or AGBI, is a 226 volume index of all names mentioned in nearly every genealogical […]
At long last every book on the Godfrey Scholar, with the exception of a few miscellaneous volumes, is available in our Page Viewer and completely searchable! No more loading immense pdfs and no more painstakingly searching through every book on the off chance it mentions the person you are looking for! As an aside note […]
We can’t speak about anywhere else in the country, but here in Connecticut the weather has been waffling between major thunderstorms and humidity so oppressive you can barely breathe! Precisely the type of weather that makes you want to hole up in your home or air conditioned public building of your choice. While you do […]
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