Betty Gay Index
Betty Gay was a Monroe County genealogist that researched hundreds of families in the Monroe County area. She amassed a collection of over 35 binders of genealogical information about various Monroe County families. She wrote letters to family members, dug through the cemetery books, and waded through church books and courthouse records to ferret out these people. Betty researched from Aben to Ziegler and a whole lot of families in between. At last count, there were about 4,600 entries in our index! There are many more names that appear on those charts. Some are very likely YOUR family members too! I found my great-grandparents, a few former neighbors, and some classmates in Betty’s files. I am sure that if you have Monroe County families, some of them are in Betty’s files. Click on the button below to search the index for your family.
The Betty Gay Collection is housed in GSMC's archives which is located on the second floor of the Monroe County Historical Museum, 126 S. Monroe Street. We are open on Wednesdays from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm. Other hours can be arranged with our archivist. Be sure to stop by and check it out. There are 37 binders filled with research material on Monroe County families!
Master Cemetery Index (Members Only)
The Master Cemetery index is an index of the cemetery transcriptions done by some of our members in the 1970's and 1980's, with additions made for approximately 50 cemeteries that have been canvassed in the last several years. The index also includes Roselawn burials, which was generously provided by the sexton, Bedford Memorial Gardens, and the County Infirmary Cemetery. The Roselawn records contain burials through June of 2014 and Bedford Memorial Gardens through 2015.
Entries with an x for the page number have a marker and were added from canvassing the cemeteries and checking Find A Grave, and are not on the transcription done in the 1970's & 1980's. Records with NM for the page number indicate that there is NO MARKER on the grave. Many of our cemeteries are being recanvassed, so many new entries will appear with x for page number. Names in [ ] are not on the markers themselves, that information was found elsewhere, typically the obituary or death certificate. Entries in Find A Grave will be listed under the name on the tombstone (per Find A Grave rules), but the new surname is provided to facilitate finding the obituary and death record. Search any surnames that have two parts, such as VanZandt, with NO SPACE.