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Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions contains vital information from headstone inscriptions in over 2,000 Connecticut cemeteries that were recorded in a W.P.A. project directed by Charles R. Hale ca. 1932-5. These records are bound in volumes for each town and are indexed on slips in a single alphabetical file. Many cemeteries had been abandoned and long-forgotten when Mr. Hale began his research. For example, the town clerk in North Stonington knew of only nine cemeteries in the town; Mr. Hale found 95. He made house-to-house inquiries about old vaguely remembered plots, and then crawled through the woods to find them. He even located a cemetery under Route 9 in Middletown and several that had been flooded by reservoirs. In total 2,269 cemeteries came to light.
This website is a collection of cemeteries I have transcribed from the Hale Collection of Cemetery Records as found in the Connecticut State Library. I have also linked to some of the cemeteries transcribed by various transcribers to help fill in the gaps and make this collection more complete.
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Other Connecticut Resources:
- 1670 Connecticut Colonial Census
- Barbour Collection of Vital Records
- Connecticut Records on Footnote
