If you’re in the midst of preparing a DAR or SAR application, you know how valuable sources with information about your ancestor can be – and how hard they often are to find. Godfrey can help! Our collection goes beyond what’s available online. For example, this book might be a valuable resource. Compiled in 1976 […]
Have you wondered how to access your ancestors’ records when they lived far away? Today’s guest post gives you a glimpse of what can be found using films delivered to Godfrey’s Family History Center. For more information about the center’s hours, please visit our website. Use of Real Estate Deeds to Uncover Spousal Identity […]
Searching for a Smith or Brown ancestor? Searching in Godfrey Scholar just got easier. Thanks to recent updates, you can add a year or range of years to your name search. If you know the exact year, enter in the box next to “year.” Need to search a ten year period? Imagine you want to search […]
Godfrey Memorial Library is an amazing place. In the more than fifteen years I have been volunteering as a docent and researcher, I have met and been able to help genealogists from all across the United States, and in a few instances, those from other countries. Some people have lots of information about the […]
Birth records of any kind are invaluable to genealogists. These are most often found in vital records for a town or county or sometimes in church records, though baptismal records are more common. At the Godfrey Library, we are lucky enough to have a very unique birth record for Middletown and Ansonia Connecticut as a […]
Below is a list of the latest books and records added to the Godfrey Scholar Online Access. Next we will add more of the Godfrey’s unique content from our physical collection that cannot be found anywhere else, including funeral records, church records, and much more! Expect to see the rest of the Coughlin Lastrina Funeral Home records added to […]
19th Century U.S. Newspaper, one of our most extensive and well used databases has updated their website! As its name suggests, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers is a massive repository of newspapers from all areas of the United States from the 19th century. All of these newspapers are completely searchable. And the new website makes searching […]
From author’s to politicians, the subjects of this week’s new biographies are four incredible men from the history of the United States! The Genius and Character of Emerson was the first book published by the Concord School of Philosophy recording a collection of nearly all the lectures in their complete form from one of their […]
Thank you everyone for bearing with us while routine server maintenance delayed our regular uploads. This week marks the last batch of books uploaded from our backlog! In this final large batch of new books there is a nice variety of biographies, genealogies, church records, funeral records, and even a few military books. Indexes for […]
The Godfrey has the perfect holiday gifts for the genealogists and historians in your life: books! More than 300 used Genealogy and History books are available for purchase. Topics include from Family Genealogies, Vital Records from across the United States, State and Local Histories, accounts of Military Histories, and much more! Many of these books […]
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