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The Charles R. Hale Collection of Headstones

Vital information from headstone inscriptions in over 2,000 Connecticut cemeteries was recorded in a W.P.A. project directed by Charles R. Hale ca. 1932-5. These records are bound in volumes for each town and are indexed on slips in a single alphabetical file. Both the state-wide slip index and the volumes for each town can be viewed through FamilySearch catalog. newspaper photograph of Charles R. Hale recording gravestone information

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