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SAINT BERNARD · NEW HAVEN · INITIAL RESEARCH EDITION

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PDF · 11 pages

Searchable historical evidence

Five original 1900 page images, including a related orphanage illustration, paired with uncorrected OCR text.

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Excel workbook · XLSX

Cemetery research index

Five editable sheets: scope, cemetery references, source catalog, related Christ Church entries and candidate death-index matches.

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PDF · 4 pages

Research guide

How to search, interpret source differences, investigate plots and request surviving records.

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Original supplementary PDF · 6 pages

Early Catholic burial source table

605 Christ Church / St. John’s source rows, published by Aronsen et al. (2019), CC BY 4.0. These are not confirmed Saint Bernard burials.

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Original article · PDF

Open-access historical research article

Aronsen et al. (2019), PLoS ONE, CC BY 4.0. Hosted in the SGC media library; requires internet access. Includes scientific images of human skeletal remains and the history of the old Christ Church cemetery.

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CSV · Official state index extract

New Haven death index

242,757 source rows with name, date and city. Cemetery of burial and plot are not recorded.

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Plain text · TXT

Records-request drafts

Five unsent drafts for the cemetery office, museum, Vital Statistics, historical society and image contributors.

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CSV, JSON, XLSX and a full-text SQLite database are included. Workbook edits do not automatically update the website or other exports. Checksums accompany the files.

No original death certificates, burial permits, authenticated plot map, individual grave photographs or original newspaper clippings have been obtained. Linked sources provide routes to further records.