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CONNECTICUT Volunteers

The list below includes volunteers who were willing to do research in the area covered by this page at the time the original RAOGK site went down in late 2011. What has been lost lost is the contact information for those individuals.

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• State or Country:
• County or province, parish, region, etc:
• Your name: (This is a "display name". If your name is Susan Jones, you could want a display name of "Suzie" .. "SueJ" ... "Susan J" ... or even "Susan Jones"
• Act of Kindness: (Describe the services you are willing to provide.)

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Note: The list below reflects the RAOGK volunteers appearing on the RAOGK site, as of the Way Back Machine Snapshot on 27 Jan 2010.

County	Volunteer	Act of Kindness
ALL	Sunny Shafer	BLACK SHEEP ANCESTORS: Over the years I have accumulated several files/records, documents, news items etc (5 GB) I have scanned/transcribed/digitized so I can search my hard drive easily. This info includes in part: prison, asylum, inmate, mug shots & Bertillon records, wanted & missing posters, photos, poor/alms/work houses, orphanages, sanitariums, court records, road/prison camp, executions, pardons, convict ships info etc. This info covers all U.S. states [and other countries] and all time frames from 1400's to present but primarily 18th & 19th century.
ALL	Dennis Beausoleil	Census records for the years 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930.
ALL	Shelli	I will check my marriage index 1959-2001 and death index 1949-2001. Not all counties are listed. I can also check censuses in any state.
East Haven	Alberta Vitale	I can provide some genealogy research information (and possible photos if I can find the gravestone; the cemetery is not mapped) for "The Old Cemetery" on River Street, East Haven. I may also be able to obtain information including photos for the East Lawn Cemetery, also on River Street. NO obits or public records. I can however make suggestions as to where you might contact to obtain information i.e. names, locations of local libraries, newspapers and historical societies etc.
Fairfield	Erik Andersen	Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. Mainly in Bethel, Ridgefield, Redding, Danbury, Brookfield, Newtown.
Fairfield	Kim Perry-Schneider	Gravestone pictures. Danbury, CT area: Wooster Cemetery, Saint Peter's, Wooster Street Cemetery.
Fairfield (north)	Michael R. Bradbury	Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. I will travel to towns of Sherman, New Fairfield, Brookfield.
Guilford	Tracy Tomaselli	Birth/Marriage/Death, Probate and Obits.
Hartford	Gary Walker	Still photos of South Windsor cemeteries.
Hartford	Ruth Vidaver Firestone	Still photos of tombstones. (No cemeteries in the city of Hartford.)
Hartford	Charle J. Smith	Gravestone photographs, local historical and genealogical information, generally through lookups in local library resources. I do not visit CT State Library or vital statistics bureau.
Hartford	Elaine Kidd O'Leary	Obituary lookups from 1991 forward in the Hartford Courant.
Hartford	Ray Thomas	Windsor items only.
Hartford	Alison Watson Maston	Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying.
Hartford	David Beal	I will take still photos of any cemetery or gravestone in Manchester, CT.
Hartford	Don Michaud	Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. I can be flexible with the towns that I search, the response just might take a little longer. Connecticut is a small state and I live right at the top in the center. Most requests if less than an hour drive will be researched.
Litchfield	Ellen Paul	Public Records (Town Hall) lookups and copying. Town of Warren and Warren Historical collection; interments St. Bridget Cemetery, Cornwall Bridge.
Litchfield	Kathleen Zuris	New Milford (town): Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Church records 1716-1939; births, marriages, deaths 1702-1902, probate 1787-1922; land records 1706-1902; US census for New Milford 1790-1930. Will search archives at Connecticut State Library for gas mileage reimbursement per RAOGK guidelines.
Litchfield	Susan Bradbury	Public Records lookups and copying. I can do research in New Milford, Roxbury and Kent ONLY. I also have access to many old books on the New Milford area, some privately owned.
Litchfield	Michael R. Bradbury	Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. The area I will cover is limited to Southern Litchfield Co., Northern Fairfield Co. I belong to Find A Grave.com and will travel anywhere in my catchment area to search for specific graves.
Litchfield	Sheila Lafferty	Between Watertown and Torrington ONLY. Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Gravestone pictures.
Middlesex	John Beckstein	Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. Member of paid subscription sites, can take photos of gravestones in towns of Colchester, Lebanon and East Haddam.
Middlesex	Charle J. Smith	Gravestone photographs, local historical and genealogical information, generally through lookups in local library resources. I do not visit CT State Library or vital statistics bureau.
Middlesex	Sue Fenton	Public Records lookups and copying for Middletown and surrounding towns. Will also get obits in local newspaper.
Middlesex	Ellen Carlson	Will search records for East Hampton, Chatham and Portland.
Middlesex	Debby Adams	Gravestone pictures. Will photograph tombstones in shoreline towns of Clinton, Westbrook, Old Saybrook, Essex, Deep River, and Old Lyme. Requester should provide a map and/or specific lot information for easy identification.
Middlesex	Jodi Brazal	Record search, cemetery lookups for the town of East Hampton only.
New Haven	Tracy Tomaselli	Town of Guilford only Willing to look up vital records and obits only.
New Haven	Linda Hill	Lookups and still photos from Waterbury, Cheshire and Meriden. May take up to six months to do lookups. Will do my best.
New Haven	Mona Rhone	Will do research on vital records and obituaries for Hamden, New Haven, North Haven and Wallingford. Also, pictures of cemetery stones in the same cities and towns.
New Haven	Glenn Palmer	Still photos of tombstones. I will take photos of gravestones in the cemeteries located in the city of Milford, CT. You must know which cemetery & location of stone. I will help where needed but please try to research it first.
New Haven	Vicki Kohanek	Digital photo of grave markers for: (1) MOUNT ST. PETER'S CEMETERY, 219 New Haven Avenue, Derby, CT, 203-735-8026. (2) OAK CLIFF CEMETERY, 72 Hawthorne Ave., Derby, CT, (3) OLDE UPTOWN BURIAL GROUND (A.K.A. 'COLONIAL CEMETERY), 350 Derby Avenue, Derby, CT. Please call cemetery for grave location (Block, Section, and Lot) and general walking direction to grave itself. If you cannot find this info let me know anyway and I'll do what I can to find what you need.
New Haven	Susan Bradbury	Public Records lookups and copying. I can do research in Southbury ONLY.
New London	Barbara Tarbox	Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Town of Groton only.
New London	John Beckstein	Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. Member of paid subscription sites, can take photos of gravestones in towns of Colchester, Lebanon and East Haddam.
New London	Meg Smeal	Lookups in Joshua Hempstead Diary, 1711-1758.
New London	Bob Macek	Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying.
New London	Don Jones	Gravestone pictures.
New London	Linda Christensen	Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public records (library) lookups and copying. Gravestone pictures. All Preston or Griswold CT cemeteries.
New London	Donna Wyman	Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying. Public Records (library) lookups and copying. NO Obituaries. Gravestone pictures. Reimbursement may be required. Will travel to cemeteries and town halls to look up records in East Lyme, Lyme, and Old Lyme. Copies of records are charged for by the town, written information typed and emailed by me is free. Gravestone pictures dependent on the weather.
New Milford	Kathleen Zuris	New Milford (town): Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Obituaries. Church records 1716-1939; births, marriages, deaths 1702-1902, probate 1787-1922; land records 1706-1902; US census for New Milford 1790-1930. Will search archives at Connecticut State Library for gas mileage reimbursement per RAOGK guidelines.
Tolland	Rick Campbell	Videotaping Cemeteries, Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying.
Tolland	Alison Watson Maston	Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying.
Windham	Denise Gorka	Will do lookups in Willimantic, or Windham, CT and obituaries in the Willimantic Chronicle. Also will take pictures of tombstones in Willimantic.
Windham	Dave McTigue	Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying.