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Maine Genealogy Databases

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General Genealogy

Maine Genealogy USGenweb
Our Sister Site - Maine Genealogy Genealogyforum.com
Maine Genealogy Resources Rootsweb
Colonial Genealogy - First Families First Families.org

Census Records on line

1790 Maine Census by Rootsweb

1800 Maine Census by Rootsweb

1837 State Census (not included are non-naturalized residents, and non-taxed Natives) by Maine Historical Society

1880 Full Maine Census by Family Search - LDS

Maine Census Project by US Census Project

Maine Census on line by Census-online.com

Vital Records

Maine Marriages Pre-1892 by US Marriage Project
1892-1966 & 1976-1996 Maine Marriage Index by Maine State Archives

1960-1996 Maine Death Index by Maine State Archives
Social Security Death Index by Rootsweb

Cemetery Stone Transcriptions

Maine Tombstone Project by US Tombstone Project
Several Maine Cemeteries in Various Counties by Rootsweb
Maine Old Cemetery Association by Maine Old Cemetery Association
Maine Cemetery Stone Transcriptions by Interment Net

Directory of Maine Cemeteries by Cemetery Junction

Military Records

Revoluntionary War - Native American Soldiers of Maine by USGenweb

War of 1812 - Letter Related to War of 1812 to John Holmes by USGenweb

1st day of Gettysburg by Capt James Abram Hall 2nd Maine Battery by ME State Archives
Capt Henry Whitman Cunningham 19th Maine Regiment Company D - Account of Fredricksburg by ME State Archives
Lt Franklin C Adams 17th Maine Infantry Comp K by ME State Archives
Col. Selden Conner - later Governor of Maine by ME State Archives
Edgar B Davis of the 26th Maine Infantry (re-enlisted 2nd Maine Cavalry) an account of their raid at Marianna, FL by ME State Archives
Col. Neal Dow 13th Maine Volunteer Infantry Account of the Steamer Mississippi in March 1862 by ME State Archives
Pvt. Walter G Morrill 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Company B Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient by ME State Archives
Lt. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Congressional Medal of Honor (later Governor of Maine) by ME State Archives

Summeries of Maine Regiments (engagements & stats) by ME State Archives

WWI Roster & History of the 56th Maine Pioneer Infantry First Heavy Field Artillery by Distant Cousin

WWII Maine Casualties Army & Airforce by Access Genealogy

Land Records

Land Grants Plantation Book 1 1840-1851 by USGenweb

Early Land Patents in Maine from 1776 by USGenweb

Newspapers and Obituaries

Abstracts from the Maine Farmer 1833-1924 (discussing all US news, including Maine) by Maine Historical Society

Encouraging MA Citizens to Emigrate to District of Maine (Sprague's Journal of Maine Vol VIII) by USGenweb

History of Newspapers and Press Maine by USGenweb

Bio's and Bibles

Free Baptist Cyclopedia Historical & Biographical Sketches (Surnames A only completed) all Maine by USGenweb

Bio and Descendants of Sir Everard de Rowe by USGenweb

Bio and The Life & Death of Sebastian Rale by USGenweb

Local History

Index to Volumes 1-8 of Maine Families in 1790 (.pdf) by Rootsweb

Emigrants who Settled in Maine 1620-1650 by USGenweb

Native American Place Names of Maine by USGenweb

(Ebook) Index Sprague's Journal of Maine History 1913-1926 by Rootsweb

"The Kennebec Valley" by SH Whitney 1887 (Ebook) by USGenweb

Maine's 100th Anniversary Part 1 | Part 2 by USGenweb
Centennial Documentary Items Part 1 | Part 2
Centennial Towns (1921) by USGenweb

Occupational History

Maine's Educational System-Schools and Teaching (extracted Sprague's Journal of Maine History) by USGenweb

Plymouth Colony Governor's 1620-1692 by USGenweb

Early Map-Makers and Maps of Maine by USGenweb
Early Publishers of Maine by USGenweb
History of Maine Postal Service by USGenweb
1816 Maine Post Offices & Post Masters by USGenweb
Early Mines, Mining Companies, Miners by USGenweb
Early Journalists of Maine by USGenweb

Cultural Information

Native American's of Maine in the Revoluntionary War by USGenweb
"The Indians of Maine" Vol IV June, 1916 Sprague's Journal of Maine by USGenweb
Letter from Bishop Fenwick to Gov Lincoln Re: Passamaquoddy & Penobscot Tribes Vol VIII Sprague's Journal of Maine History by USGenweb
Bio of Louis Annance (Cheif St Francis Tribe) Sprague's Journal of Maine Vol VIII by USGenweb
Native American Place Names of Maine by USGenweb

Early Af-Americans/Mulattoes in Maine by USGenweb
Bio and Descendants of Freed Slave Benjamin Darling by USGenweb

Anti-Slavery Movement in Maine:
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 by USGenweb

"A Brave Maine Irishman" Bio of Honorable Daniel F. Cohalan by USGenweb

Historical and Genealogical Societies and Libraries

Maine State Archives
84 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0084
(207) 287-5795

Maine State Library
64 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0064

Maine Historical Society
489 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101

Maine Genealogical Society
PO Box 221
Farmington, Maine 04938-0221

Maine State Museum
83 State House Station
Augusta ME 04333-0083

New England Historical and Genealogical Society

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