WEST CEMETERY RECORD RECOVERY — REQUEST DRAFTS Drafts for the archive requester — September 8, 2026 These are drafts. No request has been sent and no fees have been authorized. 1. MERIDEN CITY CLERK / REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS Contact: cityclerk@meridenct.gov | 203-630-4030 142 East Main Street, Meriden, CT 06450 Source: https://www.meridenct.gov/government/departments/city-clerk/death-certificate/ Subject: Surviving West Cemetery burial records and vital-record indexes We are working to reconstruct the historical record of West Cemetery on Hanover Street in Meriden. We understand that the former cemetery association's records have been lost, and seek records retained separately by the City. Please identify the earliest and latest years, formats, indexes and copying options for any retained West Cemetery burial permits; sexton or undertaker returns; interment, burial and removal registers; permit stubs; reinterment and disinterment records; and death-record entries that name West Cemetery. Please include any historical alternate names used for the cemetery. For cemetery-specific records, we seek decedent name and variants, death date and place, burial date, cemetery name, section/lot/grave if recorded, undertaker, permit or certificate number, volume and page, and associated notes. Please advise whether any existing cemetery-indexed register or electronic extract can be supplied before we request individual certified copies. We are not asking you to assume that everyone who died in Meriden was buried at West Cemetery. Please also advise whether the City Clerk holds recorded lot deeds, cemetery acquisition deeds, association filings or references to separate cemetery record deposits. If records were transferred or destroyed, please identify the receiving custodian or any available disposition documentation. Please provide a written cost estimate and available access or research-copy options before processing billable work. We seek copies without Social Security numbers. We understand that the vital-record request process may differ from the process for other municipal records. Thank you, [Your name] [Organization, if applicable] 2. MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY — HISTORICAL / GENEALOGY COLLECTION Contacts: jconnolly@meridenct.gov | 203-630-4748 jziarnik@meridenct.gov | 203-630-4756 Collection-visit inquiries: wguzman@meridenct.gov Source: https://www.meridenlibrary.org/services/history-genealogy Subject: Complete digital copy of Hale survey 211-10, West Cemetery, Meriden Your collection guide lists the 1934 Hale headstone inscriptions for Meriden, volumes 26 and 27. We request the complete West Cemetery / Old Cemetery entry, cemetery code 211-10, including the title page, all inscription pages, section headings, indexes, maps, survey route notes and corrections. A selected transcription identifies Lynn C. Webber, October 5, 1934, starting at printed page 421, with references at pages 424, 428, 431 and 433. These page numbers are locating clues; please confirm the actual start and end of the West Cemetery entry. Please preserve original page order and page numbers in the scans. Clear grayscale or color images at approximately 300–600 dpi, supplied as PDF or separate image files, would support transcription and preservation. Please advise availability, any reproduction restrictions and a quotation before paid work. We also seek cemetery photographs, obituary clipping files, undertaker records and lot plans in the Meriden historical collection, and guidance on the 1863–2020 newspaper microfilm. We can provide a name/date list for targeted obituary searches. [Your name] [Organization, if applicable] 3. CONNECTICUT STATE LIBRARY — HISTORY & GENEALOGY CSL.ISREF@ct.gov | 860-757-6580 Source: https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/home Subject: West Cemetery, Meriden — Hale 211-10 and related records Please help locate the complete Hale survey of West Cemetery, Meriden, code 211-10, copied October 5, 1934 by Lynn C. Webber, apparently beginning at printed page 421. We seek all pages, section headings, any plan/map, statewide slip-index entries and corrections. Please confirm which Meriden volume and FamilySearch image group contain the entry; the published inventory identifies film 3345 / DGS 7592426 for a group including Meriden. We also request catalog references for any independent West Cemetery association filings, cemetery deeds/plans, veteran grave records, probate references or deposited undertaker records. Please provide copying options and a quotation before billable work. Our goal is to reconstruct a lost cemetery archive without treating a headstone-only survey as a complete burial register. [Your name] [Organization, if applicable] 4. MERIDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY info@meridenhistsoc.org | 203-639-1913 Directory source: https://clho.org/Sys/PublicProfile/27535551 Subject: West Cemetery — surviving maps, photographs and association papers Does your collection contain West Cemetery lot plans, association minutes or correspondence, receipts, lot deeds, undertaker ledgers, family burial papers, photographs showing rows or markers, or relevant newspaper clipping files? We are especially interested in copies deposited by families or public officials that might survive independently of the former association's lost records. Please identify collection names, date ranges, access arrangements and reproduction terms. Where a record refers to a section, row, lot or grave, please retain the exact original wording and any plan legend. We would welcome references to successor funeral homes holding older ledgers, including records of Reynolds Funeral Home named in a 1936 West Cemetery funeral notice. [Your name] [Organization, if applicable] 5. MERIDEN ENGINEERING / ASSESSOR-GIS / PARKS — ROUTING DRAFT Department directory: https://www.meridenct.gov/government/departments/ Subject: West Cemetery boundary, lot-layout and maintenance records Please identify retained West Cemetery boundary and topographic surveys, filed plans, acquisition records, historic aerial photographs, maintenance or monument surveys, and correspondence with the former cemetery association. We seek any plan that identifies internal sections, rows, lot numbers or grave numbers, with its date, scale, legend and surveyor/custodian. Please distinguish parcel boundaries from an internal cemetery lot plan and indicate whether any existing plan has been superseded. We seek a cost estimate before billable copying and referral to the correct custodian if your department does not hold these records. [Your name] [Organization, if applicable]