A 91-year-old genealogist has pored over thousands of original documents that record the lives of generations of Bermudian families, and now she has donated almost 700 handwritten files to the National Museum of Bermuda so they can be put online and made accessible to the public.
Ms. Hollis Hallett told the Bermudian newspaper, the Royal Gazette, “I hope that by donating my research to the museum and having it put online, people get some satisfaction from finding out about their family.”
Ms. Hallett earned the nickname “Index Queen” for a series of publications that detailed wills, births, deaths, and marriage notices in Bermuda. She also published books on Bermuda’s history and volunteered at the National Museum of Bermuda.
Read the story in the Royal Gazette article, Genealogist donates life’s work to Bermuda.
