Connecticut Cemetery Records Research Guide

Connecticut cemetery records can provide people with a lot of the information they need to create family trees. People do this for many reasons, but mostly because they want to leave a legacy for future generations, so they will know about their family history.

Many documents are necessary to complete a family tree, including Connecticut cemetery records, and they can provide you with information that you may not be able to get any place else.

For example, if you want to know how old a person was when they died, this is one of the best ways to find out. For Definitions of all Cemetery Terms See Symbols on Gravestones and Their Interpretations

Other information contained in Connecticut cemetery records includes:

• Date of Death – When you are creating a family tree, you want your information to be as detailed and accurate as possible. You will need to include birth dates as well as dates of deaths, which you can find in Connecticut cemetery records.
• Location of Death – It may be that the person you are currently researching did not die in the same area where they were buried. You can get this information from Connecticut cemetery records.
• Cause of Death – This is a crucial piece of information for your research. Your Connecticut cemetery records may even hold the name of the attending physician at the time of death, which is just more interesting information for future generations to learn.
• Names of Immediate Family Members – Not only can Connecticut cemetery records provide information about the person you are currently researching, they can lead you to other names to research. You can usually find the names of the immediate family members of the deceased in Connecticut cemetery records.

Creating a detailed family tree doesn’t have to be a difficult job.

When you have Connecticut cemetery records and other documents, you will have all of the information you need right at your fingertips, and you can get to work creating a family tree that future generations can continue to add to.

Contact the various cemeteries to find out how you can get copies of Connecticut cemetery records to use for your research.

Research In Connecticut Cemetery Records

Most of the cemetery records for Connecticut have been centralized.

The Hale Collection, which included more than one million inscriptions from gravestones around the state, can be found at the Connecticut State Library.

There were more than 2,000 cemeteries in the state that were part of the Hale Collection’s accumulation of inscriptions, even though some of the gravestones had been destroyed by the time the Hale Collection was compiled.

The inscriptions for each town are contained in their own volumes. However, there is an index of them all available and it is organized in alphabetical order by town name.

The FHL has microfilmed volumes for both the statewide indexes and the town indexes available.

Some of the cemeteries in the state of Connecticut were run privately, while others were run by churches or towns. Some were even created for specific families.

Each cemetery’s administrators kept their own records, but death records weren’t required to include burial place until the 1900s.

Several historical societies in Connecticut hold cemetery records that were not part of the Hale Collection. The Washington D.C. DAR Library and the Connecticut State Library each hold family, Bible and cemetery records as well.

Generally, from the late nineteenth century onward, “Burial Books” were kept by the town clerks. Those documents usually included the place of burial for anyone who passed away outside of the town limits.

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