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Centralization is the norm for Connecticut's cemetery records. The Connecticut State Library holds the Hale Collection containing over one million gravestone inscriptions. The project to collect these began in 1916 by Charles R. Hale but was continued by act of the General Assembly and the WPA through the 1930s. While clearly many stones had been lost or destroyed by that time, over 2,000 cemeteries were located state-wide and included in the collection. Each town's inscriptions are bound in separate volumes, but an alphabetical index across towns is available. Both have been microfilmed and are available through the FHL.
Cemeteries might have been church, family, town, or private ones. Only twentieth-century death records have place of burial indicated, but most administrators operating cemeteries in the state have records of their own, and many historical societies in the state have collections of town cemeteries not included in the Hale Collection. As with other states, the DAR chapter produces annual volumes of Bible, cemetery, and family records, which are deposited at the Connecticut State Library and the DAR Library in Washington, D.C.
Town clerks usually keep "Burial Books," generally beginning in the late nineteenth century, which indicate place of burial in that town for those who died outside of town.
- Connecticut Cemetery Records at Archives.com
- Connecticut Gravestone, Tombstone, and Memorial Photo Collection from findagrave.com
- Connecticut Cemetery Books at Amazon.com
- Connecticut USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project
- Connecticut Cemeteries at Internment.net
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Cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. Cemetery and other sources of information associated with death include:
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