Military histories are amazing resources. They can tell you if your ancestor served, where, and for how long. Even better, a number of military histories have been digitized and are available online for members through Godfrey Scholar. Wondering how to access them? Check out our video. click on button
“Gazetteer” is an unfamiliar word to most researchers, but it can be a huge help in your research. Columbia Gazetteer Also known as “geographical encyclopedia,” a gazetteer provides detailed information about a place. This includes current and former names, the boundaries, major geographical features, and more. Why would you want to use a Gazetteer? Often […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week we added quite the variety of records to the Scholar. It won’t be long before we can say that our backlog of scanned books is no more! Most of these records come come from Connecticut in the 1800s and early 1900s, so if your ancestors lived in Connecticut around that time these new […]
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 have quite the eclectic mix of additions to the Scholar this week! Of particular note are records from the now closed Roberts Funeral Home in Middletown, Connecticut. The current owners of the records, the Doolittle Funeral Home, gave the Godfrey exclusive permission to host the records on the Scholar, so you will not find […]
It has been another great week for adding content to the Scholar! This will most likely be the last large installment of new genealogies and biographies added to the Scholar from our current backlog. There will certainly still be more, but they will be interspersed with a little more variety as well. Next week you […]
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