Where can you find help understanding the abbreviations on a military headstone? For example, what does “Regt.” mean? Military Headstone The National Cemetery Administration has made it easy. Its website (part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs) includes a list of abbreviations commonly used on government-furnished headstones and markers. The abbreviations include branch of […]
Ever wonder about the artwork, symbols, or decorations on your ancestor’s gravestone? What do they mean? Check out our Facebook post today for some ideas. Gravestone with Carvings
Rural Cemetery Have you heard the name “Hale” while doing Connecticut research and don’t know what it means? Named for Charles R. Hale, the Hale Collection was created through the federal W.P.A. between 1932 and 1935. It includes headstone transcriptions for approximately 2,400 Connecticut cemeteries. Since many headstones not have survived years of rough winter […]
Rural Cemetery The goal of the Godfrey’s Ed Laput Cemetery Project is to update the Charles R. Hale cemetery collection that recorded vital information from the headstone inscriptions of approximately 2,400 Connecticut cemeteries circa 1932-1935. The Laput Project differs from FindAGrave.com in that every stone is photographed; every Hale inscription is included; information from stones […]
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 […]
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 […]
We did it! We now have 1000 digitized books on Godfrey Scholar+! Over the last year we’ve added: 293 Biographies 132 volumes of original Funeral Home Records from 1882 to 1980 including records from the Hallahan Funeral Home featured in the movie A Haunting in Connecticut 234 Genealogies 146 volumes pertaining to the Revolutionary, Civil […]
We’ve added quite a variety of new works to the Scholar this week. Genealogies, Biographies, State and Local Histories, Vital Records, Funeral and Cemetery Records, and even a new Directory: just about a little bit of everything! Of particular note is a volume of internment records from Middletown Connecticut’s Indian Hill Cemetery and 6 Volumes […]
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 […]
One of the Godfrey’s most valuable resources is the data collected by board member Ed Laput and his small army of volunteers in Ed’s quest to update and improve the Hale Cemetery Inscription Collection. The Ed Laput Cemetery Project, as it is called, currently contains data from over 700 Connecticut cemeteries, with more being added […]
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