During April of 1930, at the very onset of the Great Depression, 2381 men, women and children living in East Granby and Granby Connecticut were enumerated in the decennial U.S. Federal census. Now 88 years later, the lives of most of these individuals have ended, but each of their personal histories lives on through public records that reveal their origins, their military service, their occupations, their families, and their eventual demise. Vital statistics, prior census records, town directories, newspaper articles and obituaries are but a few of the many sources which serve to document the lives led by these early 20th century East Granby and Granby residents.