It’s fall. Here in New England, that means getting out the winter clothes, bringing in the plants, stacking the firewood. Some of us carry on the tradition of canning and putting up preserves. As I go through this yearly ritual, I am reminded of going with my grandmother to check on her root cellar, […]
We hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween this year! Over the holiday weekend we added more biographies and a few more genealogies to the Scholar. If you’ve been following our blog you also know we’ve finally indexed the church records in our collection from Congregational churches in Groton, Voluntown, Sterling, and Waterford. We […]
Last week was another busy one on the Godfrey Scholar! We’re well on our way to getting through our backlog of scanned books, with over 800 already on the Scholar and just about 300 left to go. This time we’re happy to bring you a selection of genealogies and biographies regarding people and families whose […]
The indexing of the Groton, Voluntown, Sterling, and Waterford Church records book is finally complete! This book is a treasure trove of information from the Congregational Churches in all four towns between the years of 1720 to 1839. These records include admissions: 815 Baptisms 419 from the Groton First Congregational Church 396 from […]
We apologize for being late on this week’s Scholar update. With the annual appeal in full swing and the increase in patrons visiting the library we’ve been utterly swamped! Last we we uploaded a huge amount of biographies and genealogies to the Scholar, for the most part drawing from the store of scanned K, L, […]
It’s been a great week for adding new content to the Scholar! We’re back to genealogies and biographies, working through the Is and Ls, as well as adding some new handwritten family charts and trees. Next week you can look forward to a new batch of genealogies as we continue to work through our backlog […]
Do we have some neat things to tell you about this week! First we’ve added more record books from Middletown’s First and Second Congregational Church, the Cromwell Congregational Church, and the First Congregational Church of Jeffersonville Indiana! Also new to the Scholar is a selection of supplementary materials from the Brooks Collection: excerpts from vital […]
Last week we added all sorts of incredible works to the Scholar. Among the searchable books added are state and local histories, genealogies, biographies, and vital records from several Connecticut town. We also added two record books from the Cromwell First Congregational Church and two sets of funeral home records, the first from New Britain’s […]
We would like to apologize for the inconvenience. Due to an unfortunate accident some data was erased from the Scholar’s main page. An older version of the data was uploaded so the format has also reverted to a previous state. All content is still present on the Scholar and can be found via navigation in […]
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 […]
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