Godfrey Library 134 Newfield Street Middletown CT 860-346-4375 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Family History Center
The Godfrey Memorial Library has borrowing privileges from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, UT. We can help you to identify and select the microfilm or microfiche that you need for your research and borrow them from the FHL for you to use here. [ ANY FHC CAN HELP YOU DO THIS ALSO]
History
The Godfrey Memorial Library was founded by Fremont Rider and was incorporated on 26 Nov 1947 as a “…free public library of books, pamphlets, periodicals and other materials in the fields of American biography and genealogy and in cognate fields; to carry on and promote investigation and research in these fields and to publish the results thereof…”
A site was selected on a hill near Wesleyan University and construction for the new Library began. Fremont Rider, the Library’s founder and first librarian named the building for his brother-in-law, the late Brig. General Stuart Chapin Godfrey who died in WWII. Just before the Library opened on May 6, 1951 Rider’s wife Grace (Godfrey) Rider passed away and the Library was dedicated jointly in memory of his wife and brother-in-law.
The Library has continued with its mission of collecting genealogical materials and publishing. It’s list of titles include a number of genealogies; reference books and indexes, including the 226 volume American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI). AGBI is still the largest genealogical reference set ever published.
Highlights Census 1790-1930 yet 1790-1820 indexed 1860-1870 indexed 1900-1910 indexed
Search Books -- 25,000 books of Family history and other
Search Persi -- Has over 1.6 genealogy articles from family historys, magazines and pamhlets
These are just some highlights Hope this helps! Bill Daniels
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