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Before asking for help, please check the RESEARCH page to see if perhaps the information you are seeking is already online (there is a lot for New London County!). Be very specific in your request in name(s), place(s) and dates, but limit it to one request at a time. Please don't send an entire family tree unless you have cleared it with the County Coordinator.

Please note: These people are all volunteers who are donating their time to help the CTGenWeb project to make it easier to find your roots. We all have lives that may interfere with prompt responses, so have patience.When you receive a response from your "Genealogical Angel" PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY THANKS!

If you are researching, and find a bad e-mail address listed here, please notify me. Also, if would like to do lookups for fellow researchers, or if you have volunteered in the past but no longer want to be listed here, please contact. I regret to say that I do not have the ability or time to answer personal genealogy research questions, as I live and work full time in Atlanta, Ga. My contribution to New London County genealogy is in hosting this web site.

Some of these listings date back years. If you find a broken link, please let me know!

Thank you!

February 13, 2016
As time permits, I'll do lookups from "The Genealogical History of the Gallup Family in the United States," with biographical sketches of members of the family, by John D. Gallup, Agawam, Mass. Press of The Hartford Printing Company, 1893.
Pat Sabin

March 2007
Carolyn Smith has created a web site listing her vast research materials for lookups. Thank you, Carolyn!
http://www.newlondonct.info/

March 1, 2005
As time permits, I'll do lookups from "A Modern History of New London County, Connecticut, Volume III," 1922, Editor in Chief, Benjamin Tinkham Marshall, A.M., D.D., President of Connecticut College, New London, published by Lewis Historical Publishing Co, NY. This is a book of biographies of local businessmen, educators, and ministers who were still living in 1922 at the time the book was published, so the DOB probably will be no earlier than the 1830's. However, with each biography, there is a good bit of family history and in some cases, a photograph. There are a lot of repeats of the same surname, so please ask for a specific name.
If I find your ancestor, I'll transcribe the biography to the New London County CTGenWeb (some have been transcribed on THIS PAGE.

Pat Sabin - newlondon AT patsabin.com or patricia.sabin AT comcast.net Please be sure to mention New London in the subject line.

April 11, 2004 - Hudgens Family . I would like to volunteer genealogy look-ups for the following books I have: "Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut 1650-1900" and "Tapestry: A Living History of the Black Family in Southeastern Connecticut." These two books have alot of valuable information that I would like to share and also contains some limited Indian information.

June 16, 2003 - Joseph H. Gardner . Volunteer to do look-ups in: Clara Gardner Miller, _Gardiner/Gardner Genealogy_ (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Publ. Co., 1937), which focuses on the Gardner and Lake families.

May 20, 2003 - Connie Robinson. I am a transplant from Groton, CT to Oregon. I have a copy of "The Antecedents and Descendants of Noah Whipple" of the Rogerene Community at Quakertown, CT., by Clara Hammond McGuigan. I will be happy to do lookups in the book.

April 24, 2003 - Chris Wannamaker will do lookups from The Ely Ancestry: The Lineage of Richard Ely.

June 30, 2002 - Larry Chesebro' volunteers to do look ups in Anna Chesebrough Wildey’s, Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough, (New York: Press of T. A. Wright 1903). Her book contains 600+ pages of really good info up to 1902 with not only the Chesebrough family but so many others including most of the original Stonington families back to their immigrant ancestors.

May 7, 2002 - Nancy Hauser has updated her look-up information:

I have the Descendants of James Morgan book.
On my web site at
http://www.mv.com/ipusers/pcsrus/Denison/denison_society.htm, I have two
books: The Descendants of Isaac Denison, and Denison Genealogies by George
Burlingame Denison. I have them all indexed with hyperlinks, so they are
easy to use, too.

And I have access to the Groton Avery Clan on Genealogy.com, and am willing
to look things up there.

Carolyn Smith - I have a variety of materials I will be glad to search. To name a few, Genealogies:Groton Avery Clan Vol. 1 & index, Bill, Bolles, Gallup, Geer, Morgan, Spicer History of Stonington (indexed by me), Williams, Woodbridge. Books: Caulkins History of New London & Norwich. Local History: West Mystic, Poquonnock Bridge, Historic Ledyard Vol. 1 & 2 Includes geneaolgies I co-authored about various Groton & North Groton families, Sept. 6, 1781North Groton's Story (Ft. Griswold). Cemetery books: Groton, Ledyard and some Norwich. Barbour Collection (will be getting these as they are completed). New London City Directory 1918. I have extensive extracts of Groton & New London Land Records. I also have 4 vol Rev. Pension Rcords.

Update March 2007: See Carolyn's new web page for a list of all her source material: http://www.newlondonct.info/
3/18/01- Carolyn has just added new material to her research library and has kindly offered to do lookups:

The Roll of Honor the Union Army who died while the war was on. Lists burials.

Torreys New England Marriages Prior to 1700 with Supplement

Soldiers in King Philips War

CT Divorces 1719 -1910

Thomas Minor Diaries
03/09/03 - Carolyn has added this material to her reference library for lookups:

The History of Montville

The Aaron Stark Genealogy

June 28, 2001. Meg Smeal will do lookups from the "Joshua Hempstead Diaries - New London 1711-1758" which contains many New London County names.

June 13, 2001. Henry McDonald.   I have a copy of Stillman Foster Kneeland's book, 'The Kneeland Genealogy'. Kneeland's are indexed by first name. Other names are indexed by surname. Over 500 pages and covers many branches of Kneeland's.

May 26, 2001. Tracey Fotiou    (ancestorswanted@snet.net) has offered to do lookups from the following book: "The Stonington Chronology 1649-1949 Being a Year-By-Year Record of the American Way of Life in a Connecticut Town", written by Williams HAYNES in 1949, The Pequot Press, 161-63 Water St., Stonington, CT.   Tracey was kind enough to mention the inscription inside the book, in case it is a close family member: Bertha Clarke PERRY July 1949.

May 22, 2001. Charlotte Anne Kennedy will do lookups from the Barbour Collection for the towns of Norwich and New London. Note that Charlotte Anne has a new e-mail address if you've contacted her previously. (Look up Volunteer)

April 16, 2001. Kenneth Smith will provide information about the World War I submarine, the USS D2 which was out of New London. Ken does not have access to an actual list of crew members.

February 19, 2001. I have the book, "Connecticut Divorces, New London, Tolland, and Windham Cos. 1719-1910" by Grace Louise Knox & Barbara B. Ferris. I will be glad to do lookups for anyone interested. Cathy Lauer

Larry Sugden (LWSugden@myexcel.com) is willing to do lookups in Thomas J. Goodwill's book, "Three Hundred Years In America - A History Of The Goodwill Family." The book focuses on the Goodwill families of Stonington, CT. It has many other surnames, history and anecdotes.

January 10, 2001. Judy Drake will do lookups from George Porter's "Inscriptions From Gravestones in the Old Burying Ground, Norwich Town, Connecticut."

April 28, 2000. Jon Aspinwall has volunteered to do look-ups in the following:
Keroack, Paul R. "Irish Emigrant Headstone Inscriptions from St. Mary Cemetery in Norwich, Connecticut." The Connecticut Nutmegger , volume 32: 1 & 2 (Jun & Sep 1999).

April 12, 2000. Donna Campbell (dcamp48@hotmail.com) will do lookups from Everett Pendleton's book, Early New England Pendletons. It has a great deal of information regarding the descendants of Brian Pendleton who lived in Stonington and the area beginning in 1745.   Feb. 2001 -Donna has also acquired a copy of Brian Pendleton and His Descendants, 1599-1910, by Everett Hall Pendleton.

7/20/96 Have copy of Hall and Plimpton Lyme Vitals, will do lookups, see Bob Miller

7/19/96 Have Vital Records of Lyme,CT to end 1850 / The Connecticut Way Family (Lyme) will do lookups see Jim Bridges (New e-mail address June 2002)

Sep 15, 1996 Mark Merritt I have a copy of Joshua Hempstead's Diary from which I am more than willing to do lookups. As I'm sure you know, it has an index which is extensive but incomplete. I am willing to do name lookups which are indexed, but if the searcher can provide a time frame, I am quite willing to review and report on the dates near. Probably the most common of this type are publishing of intentions to marry and baptisms which JH recorded with rather thorough care.

10 Jan 1997Nancy HauserI have the books: Stonington during the American Revolution, Denison Genealogies by George Burlingame Denison (1895) Denison Genealogy (1978)and the Supplement I'd be more than happy to look things up.

Tue, 01 Apr 1997 Nancy Walker I have "A Man Called Sampson" by Will Ottery. This book contains information on Sampson Occum and his family. It also has some information on other Native Americans who traveled with him to New York and then to Wisconsin. I also have "On Our Own Ground" by William Apess. He was a Pequot missionary. This book contains some geneological information. The last book I have is "The Pequots in Southern New England" edited by Laurence M Hauptman and James D Wherry. This book was written by some college students about the Pequots. It also contains some geneological information. I am doing genealogy on the Western (Mashantcuket) and Eastern (Paucatuck) Pequot tribes and would be willing to look up information in these books for anyone who asks. I do have some other sources available to me for information but those are the only published books that I have in my possesion.

21 Feb 1998 Lonnie FinkI have the BOOK of DOW. And will be glad to do lookup from it. lonnie Researching DOW/KINNE & MAIN/MAINE in CT.

7 Mar 1998 Larry O'Keefe I have gathered information from various sources (town, church, census, cemetery records, etc.) on approximately 600 families of Irish origin in the Stonington, CT/Westerly, RI area and would be willing to look up information in my records. Update, December 2000: Larry now lives in Vermont and doesn't get often get to CT, but he is still willing to do lookups on a limited basis.

25 Apr 1998 NelCyn Found in Kane co. Ill. Biographical Record, 1898 - in most cases, there is additional info. on these families. Will look up on request. Cynthia | Elisha BREWSTER, born 1790 in Norwich, Conn. was the son of Seabury BREWSTER, and the grandson of Wrestling BREWSTER. | George COOK, the son of Burkham COOK was born 1809 in Norwich, Conn. He married Lucy Ann LAMPHERE, also of Norwich. They moved to Chicago in the early 1840's.

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