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 […]
Interested in Volunteering? Read this volunteer’s story to learn about interesting projects you can help with. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Godfrey could not function without our dedicated volunteers. From greeting patrons and helping them find their ancestors in our resources to adding books and documents to the Scholar+ Online Library, […]
The Ed Laput Cemetery Project has eclipsed the 900 mark! Ed and his merry volunteer band of brothers and sisters have finished photographing and indexing 35 cemeteries in just the last two months. Recent additions include the first cemeteries we’ve cataloged in Willington, Stafford, Tolland, and Ellington. “I started this project with the idea that […]
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 […]
Cemetery records can be a valuable resource for building your family tree. gravestone This gravestone, for example, includes not only the ancestor’s information, but also whom she married. So how do you locate gravestones, plot records, and other cemetery information? Join us on June 4 at 9:30 a.m. for a Genealogy Club meeting on cemetery […]
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