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What is a Full Search?
When conducting your family
research you may come to a dead-end. You struggle trying to locate that one
missing piece of information that will help you move forward. A Full Search
request gives Godfrey Library patrons access to research help. You do not need
to have a subscription to the Godfrey Scholar Program to submit a request. You
do not even need to be present at the library.
The link below provides
you with a convenient form to ask your question of our researchers. Please give
as much information as possible to enable us to be reasonably sure the
individual we locate is your family member. Our brilliant volunteer & staff
researchers have decades of experience in genealogy and historical research.
When a request form is received, by mail, email or fax, they will use all
available resources both in-house and online to try to find the answer to your
genealogy question.
An example of the resources included in (but not
limited to) the Full Search are: The American Genealogical Biographical Index
(AGBI-and every name index to over 800 sources on our shelves and the Boston
Transcript); county & local histories, biographies, published genealogies,
Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts, and cemetery records (as applicable).
Each Full Search request is for one individual, however, should
information for an additional relative appear on the same page, that
information is included at no extra charge. For a $30.00 fee submitted names
are searched and photocopies are made of the pages on which they appear. Please
keep in mind that the majority of the information we have at the library is in
the United States and pre-1930. If you are looking for a later time period or
international information our resources are more limited. Every effort is made
to provide the data you request, however, there are times when despite
everyone's best efforts no information is available. In those cases, the fee
still stands and no refunds are given.
To mail in your request, please
send your check to Godfrey Memorial Library, 134 Newfield Street, Middletown,
CT 06457. Please fax forms to 860-347-9874. Email your request to
library@godfrey.org. Please put “Full Search Request ” in the subject
line and include answers to the questions found on the form at the link. Be
sure to include payment information. Allow 3-4 weeks response time. |
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Click here to
view & print a Full Search Request Form
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