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The Archive Section of the Old Saybrook Historical Society is staffed by a small group of volunteers and maintains a collection of original documents, copies, transcripts, photographs, motion pictures, and maps of historical and genealogical significance. Files are available on nearly three hundred Old Saybrook families, which vary widely in depth and breadth. Many files contain only a single newspaper article or letter, but other files contain extensive genealogies, family histories, and photographs. The family records are filed alphabetically by surname, and files on ten prominent families occupy boxes of their own in the same section. Limited searches will be conducted on request as time permits. Staffers will determine whether or not the Archive has any relevant material and, if so, will provide a free estimate of research charges ($10 per hour plus expenses.. The Historical Society also has a library of over 1,200 volumes, on a wide variety of topics of local interest, at the Stevenson Archive. OSHS
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In the 1930's, Charles R. Hale organized and directed a project to record every headstone inscription in the state of Connecticut with funding from FERA and WPA. The complete collection is available at the Connecticut State Library, and the Old Saybrook edition "Headstone Inscriptions: Town of Old Saybrook, Connecticut to 1934" at the Stevenson Archive. A companion volume, "Cypress Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions" gathered by Mrs. Frederic Bebbe, is available at the Archive (Box 14).
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Special thanks to Dorothy Swan, Martha Soper, Elaine Staplins, Allison Elrod, Harold Elrod, Suzanna Otto, the Old Saybrook Historical Society, and the Saybrook Colony Founders Association for invaluable assistance in the preparation of this guide.