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These archives, libraries, societies, and museums preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in Maine. Remember, Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1819, so early Maine records are often found in Massachusetts repositories.
Wiki Articles on Major Repositories for Maine[edit | edit source]
Allen County Public Library · American Antiquarian Society · Bangor Public Library · Farmington Public Library · Haverhill Public Library · Maine Historical Society · Maine State Archives · Maine State Library · Massachusetts Historical Society · National Archives at Boston · New England Historic Genealogical Society · Penobscot Marine Museum · Skidompha Public Library · University of Maine Fogler Library
Online Records of Maine[edit | edit source]
 Links to online databases and indexes that may include vital records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, maps, military records, naturalizations, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records.
National Repositories[edit | edit source]National Archives at Boston[edit | edit source]380 Trapelo Road |
- The Boston archives branch has Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont documents, photos, and maps of 80 federal agencies, War of 1812, forts, World War II research at Harvard and MIT, federal bankruptcy courts, First Circuit Court of Appeals, Navy, Coast Guard, westward expansion, ethnology, Revolutionary War, Civil War, captured German records, territorial papers, censuses, passenger arrival records for Boston and New England, Canadian border crossings.[1]
Statewide Repositories[edit | edit source]
Maine Historical Society Brown Library[edit | edit source]489 Congress Street
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Maine State Archives[edit | edit source]
84 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0084
Telephone: 207-287-5795
Fax: 207-289-5739
Website: Maine State Archives
- Original records from all Maine counties, towns, and plantations.[2] A wiki article describing this collection is found at Maine State Archive Collections (FamilySearch Historical Records)
- Maine Memory NetworksIncluding letters,photographs, maps and much more.
- Maine Memory NetworksIncluding letters,photographs, maps and much more.
Maine State Library[edit | edit source]
64 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
Telephone: 207-287-5600
Fax: 207-287-5624
E-mail: Ask a Librarian, Information Form
Website: Maine State Library
- Has history, genealogy, town histories, counties, Indians, boundary changes, rivers, maps, oral histories, and town/plantation records. This is the best genealogical repository in Maine.[2]
Regional Repositories[edit | edit source]
Bangor Public Library[edit | edit source]
Bangor Room
145 Harlow Street
Bangor, ME 04401
Telephone: 207-947-8336
Fax 207-945-6694
E-mail: info@bangorpubliclibrary.org
Website: Local History, the Bangor Room, and Special Collections
- Genealogical and historical references for Bangor, the Penobscot Valley, the state of Maine, and the entire region of New England. They have censuses, Maine Register town histories, the Bangor Daily News Index, county histories, family records and research, genealogy handbooks, Bangor city directories, military histories, passenger lists, and scanned photos.[4] They also provide free access to Ancestry Library and HeritageQuest Online.
Farmington Public Library[edit | edit source]
117 Academy Street
Farmington, ME 04938
Telephone: 207-778-4312
E-mail: jenscott@farmington.lib.me.us
Website: Farmington Public Library
- The Genealogy Room has over 1,700 works: town histories, published and unpublished family histories, local newspapers, Ancestry.com access, vital records, and cemetery transcripts.[5]
Penobscot Marine Museum[edit | edit source]
Stephen Phillips Memorial Library
11 Church Street (PO Box 498)
Searsport, Maine 04974
Telephone: 207-548-2529 ext.212
E-mail: cgood@pmm-maine.org
Website: Stephen Phillips Memorial Library
- Their collection includes an important biographical index of Maine people. They also have records of shipping companies, ship registers, logbooks, and journals.[2]
Skidompha Public Library[edit | edit source]
Lincoln County Genealogy and History Center
184 Main Street (PO Box 70)
Damariscotta, Maine 04543
Telephone: 207-563-5513
E-mail: skid@msln.net
Website: Genealogy:Find Your Roots
- Their genealogy and local history collection is outstanding.[2] It is strongest for Lincoln County, but also includes other areas of Maine, New England, US, Canada, and other countries.[6]
University of Maine Fogler Library[edit | edit source]
Orono, ME 04469-5729
Telephone: 207-581-1661
Fax: 207-581-1653
E-mail: Ask a Librarian form
Website: University of Maine Fogler Library
- They have excellent collections about early Maine settlers, fisheries, Acadians, ships, and shipping companies.[2]
Outside of Maine Repositories[edit | edit source]
Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1819, so early Maine records are often found in Massachusetts repositories.
Allen County Public Library[edit | edit source]
900 Library Plaza
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802
Telephone: 260-421-1225
E-mail: genealogy@acpl.info
Website: Genealogy Center ACPL
- This is the second-largest genealogy collection in the United States[7] and the largest genealogy collection in a public library. Its holdings include more than 350,000 printed volumes and 513,000 items on microfilm and microfiche.[8] It has a premier genealogical periodical collection, local histories, genealogies, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, ethnic sources, and Canadians. They have a great eastern seaboard and Maine collection.[9]
American Antiquarian Society[edit | edit source]
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634
Telephone: 508-755-5221
Fax: 508-753-3311
E-mail: Library@americanantiquarian.org
Website: American Antiquarian Society
- Best known for its U.S. newspaper collection of over 18,000 bound volumes 1704-1820, history, genealogy, Bibles, maps, biography, directories, Native Americans, women, canals, railroads, photos, manuscripts.[10] They have Maine vital records, newspapers, and town histories. One of the best genealogy centers in America.[2]
Haverhill Public Library[edit | edit source]
99 Main Street
Haverhill, Massachusetts 01830
Telephone: 978-373-1586
E-mail: hpl-ref@mvlc.org
Website: Haverhill Public Library Special Collections
- One of New England's largest collections of original manuscripts, books, genealogical periodicals, and surname folders, local history collection, genealogy databases, Massachusetts vital records to 1910, federal and state censuses, 9,000 New England town and family histories. Their collection of New England and Maine sources is larger than most.[2] [11]
Massachusetts Historical Society Library[edit | edit source]
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215-3695
Telephone: 617-536-1608
Fax: 617-859-0074
E-mail: Contact Us
Website: Massachusetts Historical Society
- Excellent historical materials, original town records, and genealogies related to Maine.[2] This collection does not repeat the New England Historic Genealogical Society collection.[12]
Massachusetts State Archives[edit | edit source]
220 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, Massachusetts 02125
Phone: (617) 727–2816
E-mail: archives@sec.state.ma.us
Website: Massachusetts Archives Division
- The Massachusetts Archives Index, also known as the Colonial Index, cites almost every early New England immigrant inlcuding those for Maine.[2]
New England Historic Genealogical Society[edit | edit source]
New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS)
101 Newbury Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02116-3007
Telephone: 617-536-5740; Library 617-226-1231
Fax: 617-536-7307
E-mail: info@nehgs.org
Website: AmericanAncestors.org
- Best overall collection for New England vital records and probates, and excellent collection for Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe. The manuscript collection for members only has diaries, letters, account books, business papers, church and town records, sermons, maps, wills, deeds, unpublished town and family genealogies, photos, and papers of the region's best genealogists since 1850.[13] The Maine collection has great detail on some early families, unpublished family histories, and many town and county histories.[2]
Family History Centers[edit | edit source]
Some of the above collections are partially duplicated at the Family History Library and its branch Family History Centers around the world. Most centers can help you by:
- Giving you limited, personal, one-on-one research suggestions (but they do not do research for you)
- Providing access to genealogical records either through the premium online Internet FHC Portal for free, or a microfilm loan program
- Offering free how-to classes (varies by location)
- Fostering contact between genealogical enthusiasts
There are several centers located in Maine, for example:
- Bangor Maine Family History Center
639 Grandview Ave
Bangor, Maine USA
Telephone: 207-942-7677- Each center is staffed by volunteers and has varying hours and services. Telephone in advance to verify their hours.
- Bangor Maine Family History Center
To locate one of these 4,500 centers in your own neighborhood, see Find a Family History Center.
For Further Reading[edit | edit source]
- Maine State Archives, Public Record Repositories in Maine. (Augusta, Maine: Maine State Archives, 1972). WorldCat 17248268; 1983 online digital edition. FHL Film 928040 item 4; Fiche 6051251; Book 974.1 A3m.
- Maine (Directory of Historical Societies) in D'Addezio A Directory of Historical Societies in the United States, Canada and Australia online.
- Usgennet.org Online Historical and Genealogical Societies of Maine.
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 124. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Ref Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Dollarhide and Bremer, 53.
- ↑ Genealogy and Family History Research at MHS in Maine Historical Society (accessed 5 April 2016).
- ↑ Local History, the Bangor Room, and Special Collections in Bangor Public Library (accessed 5 April 2016).
- ↑ Genealogy Services in Farmington Public Library (accessed 5 April 2016).
- ↑ Genealogy: Find Your Roots in Skidompha Library (accessed 5 April 2016).
- ↑ Allen County Public Library in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 28 April 2010).
- ↑ Genealogy Center in Allen County Public Library (accessed 28 April 2010).
- ↑ Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 59.
- ↑ Genealogy Resources in Haverhill Public Library (accessed 14 November 2013).
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 57.
- ↑ Dollarhide and Bremer, 5, 57, and 59.
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