Old Lyme, CT 06371
860.434.1684 Fax: 860.434.9547
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Old Lyme Room Fees How to access HeritageQuest Local Families (Our Collection) Contact:Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Jill Adams, Genealogy Librarian 2 Library Lane Old Lyme, CT 06371 Phone (860) 434-1684 Email- click here *************************************************************************************************** Old Lyme Cemetery Association keeps indexed maps of the current cemeteries in Old Lyme. In order to locate someone in an Old Lyme cemetery, you will need to contact them directly. Their contact person is Bob Whitcomb and his phone number is 860-434-7221. The Hale Collection is a list of inscriptions on headstones in Connecticut. The list was compiled under the auspices of the F.E.R.A. and the W.P.A., sponsored by the Connecticut State Library, compiled under the supervision of Charles R. Hale, State Military Necrologist, assisted by Miss Mary H. Babin, Secretary. The Old Lyme Library has copies of Old Lyme, East Lyme, and Lyme editions, all copied in 1934. All are indexed by name on headstone and include lists of cemeteries and a map of their locations. The graveyards covered in Old Lyme include: Duck River, Layville, Peck, Black Hall Schoolhouse, Champion #1 and #2, Wait, Old Meeting House Hill, Griswold, Chadwick and Slate. The graveyards covered in Lyme include: Sterling, Congregational Church, Bill Hill, Marvin, Brockway, Joshuatown, Selden, Cove, Luther, Daniels, Indian Grave, Beckitt Hill, Gillett, Grassy Hill, Colt, Beebe, Griffin, Sisson, Pleasant View, North Lyme Baptist (moved to Pleasant View), Ely, Lord, Hall (moved to Grassy Hill), Richards. The graveyards covered in East Lyme include: Old Stone Church, Union, Banty, Rogers, Pest Yard, Center (or Riverhead), Cavarly, Huntley, Crocker, Powers, Flanders Church, 3 Taber Stones, Leech, Fosdick, Barthrick (or Champion #3), Tinker, Old Fox Farm, Holmes, Tilleson, Beebe, Chadwick, Reeve, Indian Cemetery (now in Union Cemetary).
At this time, there are no fees for using any of the Old Lyme Library’s materials within the building. Printing and photocopies are 10 cents per page for black and white and 50 cents per page for color. Please ask before photocopying materials from the genealogy room. Many of our books are fragile and irreplaceable. We may still be able to make a copy safely for you if we are uneasy about the book’s condition. If you have written or emailed requesting photocopies be sent to you, our charge is 50 cents per page (black and white) plus postage. Due to time restraints, we may not be able to accommodate all requests. We do not charge for librarian time spent on genealogy projects, however, each request will be given attention and requests will be answered in a timely fashion. The Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library is a private library association. Our budget is very limited. While our historical collection is sometimes wonderfully rich for genealogists, it contains many fragile items that we would like to preserve for many generations of genealogists. Our goals for the library ultimately include adding a digital collection, bolstering our print collection, and rebinding (and digitizing!) our fragile items. We accept some limited donations of rare books relevant to Old Lyme and Lyme history, including bound family histories relevant to the town. If you discover that our library’s genealogy collection has been helpful, please consider a monetary donation for the library’s annual fund drive or for preserving the genealogy collection in specific. If you are frustrated by the Old Lyme Library’s genealogy collection, please consider a monetary donation to help us improve it! We are interested to know how our collection has been helpful and how it can be improved to help more genealogists. Please let us know in writing if there is other information we could provide on these pages, or how the Old Lyme Room’s collection could be improved. Below are some historical societies and centers that may be helpful for genealogy in the Old Lyme, Lyme and Saybrook region. This information was collected in August of 2005. The internet links worked in August of 2005, but they may not be regularly maintained or available indefinitely. Local: Old Lyme Historical Society Lyme Historical Society New London County Historical Society Saybrook Colony Founders Association Old Saybrook Historical Society and the Frank Stevenson Archives Links to many local Connecticut Historical Societies: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/govtinfo/ConnState/connhistsoc.html Statewide: Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University Connecticut Society of Genealogists Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut History Online Mystic Family History Center HeritageQuest provides access online to searchable records, books and articles of interest to genealogists. Materials available include census records, family and local histories, and Revolutionary War documents. To access HeritageQuest from the Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library, you will need to start on the catalog homepage for the library. “iCONN ” is one of the choices on the blue strip. Click on iCONN. A new, very complicated search page will appear. HeritageQuest appears on the right, under the ‘By Subject’ category. Click on the word ‘HeritageQuest’ to enter into the database. You can access HeritageQuest from any internet terminal anywhere.. Use the http://www.iconn.org. It will ask you for your library card barcode, usually located on the back of your library card. Any Connecticut town’s library barcode should work. This brings you to your search page. Please click on Link to Individual Resources. Next, look for "History, Biography and Genealogy" and then you will see HeritageQuest. Click on HeritageQuest and you will access the database. We have materials such as family genealogy books and memorials on many families, but some Old Lyme and Connecticut Families of note are: Noyes, Lord, Ludington, Griswold, Ely, Marvin, and Sill. These materials are listed in our online catalog. Searching with the family name + family in the subject heading can sometimes be helpful (eg. Noyes Family) in locating materials. These items do not circulate. Old Lyme Contact Information
Town of Old Lyme Offices: If you write the Old Lyme Town Hall with names and dates for deaths, births and marriages they will let you know if it is in their records. Please have as much accurate information as possible. Once you are sure that the relevant records are in Old Lyme’s Town Hall, you only need to send a letter with the names and dates of the persons involved along with a check and a SASE. Please refer to the pdf link below for procedures and forms for birth records in the past 100 years. As of October 1, 2005, the cost for all copies of birth, death or marriage certificates will be $10. (Cost is $5 until then.) Note that no records are available before 1855 for Old Lyme. Refer to our Vital Records link to confirm which town records apply before 1855. Lyme Contact Information Lyme Town Hall Lyme Town Hall will look up and make copies of birth certificates for $10 (cost is $5 until 10/1/05). Don’t send a check until you confirm your person is in their records. They will answer letters (send SASE), but you can use vital record volumes (such as the Barbour Collection) as an index for everyone before 1850. If the person isn’t listed in vital records, they won’t have them in town hall. All inquiries involving searching land records require someone to come in person. Requesting copies of records of vital events occurring in ConnecticutRequest forms and relevant information are linked here in pdf format. (These documents are provided by the CT Department of Public Health Vital Records Section.) Note that the cost of copies will rise from $5 to $10 on October 10, 2005. The Vital Records Section maintains birth, death and marriage records since July 1, 1897. (For dates prior, see the pertinent town hall or the State Library Genealogy Unit, listed under our Libraries link.) If you wish to link directly to the Vital Records Section, their website is http://www.dph.state.ct.us/OPPE/hpvital.htm The Vital Records Section is currently microfilming their records, so you will need to contact the pertinent town halls directly. The form for requesting birth records from town halls is on the pdf link above. Old Saybrook Acton Public Library Lyme Public Library Old Lyme Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library Connecticut State Library The Connecticut State Library's mission is "to preserve and make accessible the records of Connecticut's history and heritage." (From the website, August 30, 2005.) The History and Genealogy Unit’s website includes excellent information for researchers and the library itself serves as the reference point for the State Archives. For a fee, some indexed information is available through email and written query forms. Godfrey Memorial Library The Godfrey is a private library. Membership is $35/year and their membership card can be used as your genealogist identification to allow you access to Connecticut town vital records. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records is a multi-volume set listing births, marriages and deaths from ancient records in each town. The Old Lyme PGN Library owns several volumes for local towns that can be used for genealogy research. (See the Town Halls link for contact information for Lyme and Old Lyme Town Halls.) There are often vital records in other volumes as well, sometimes including church records and land records. Historic persons living in the current area of Old Lyme may be listed in vital records of modern nearby towns. Old Lyme has been part of several towns in the past, below is a timeline that may assist you in locating the appropriate town. Old Lyme. (Town records start 1855) Lyme, (Town records start 1667) Saybrook. (Town records start 1635) Also of Interest: East Lyme was incorporated 1839 (taken from Lyme and Waterford). It is, as the name implies, east of Old Lyme and Lyme. It includes the towns of Flanders and Niantic. Vital records start in 1839. (Barbour Collection 1839-1853). East Haddam, including the village of Moodus, is located across the Connecticut River from Haddam, just north of the village of Hadlyme. Vital records start in 1743. (Barbour Collection 1743-1857). Requesting copies of records of vital events occurring in ConnecticutRequest forms and relevant information are linked here in pdf format. (These documents are provided by the CT Department of Public Health Vital Records Section.) Note that the cost of copies will rise from $5 to $10 on October 10, 2005. The Vital Records Section maintains birth, death and marriage records since July 1, 1897. (For dates prior, see the pertinent town hall or the State Library Genealogy Unit, listed under our Libraries link.) If you wish to link directly to the Vital Records Section, their website is http://www.dph.state.ct.us/OPPE/hpvital.htm The Vital Records Section is currently microfilming their records, so you will need to contact the pertinent town halls directly. The form for requesting birth records from town halls is on the pdf link above.
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