Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine Genealogy

Town Clerk
Town of Scarborough Town Clerk Scarborough Municipal Building 259 U.S. Route One Scarborough, ME 04074 Phone (207)730-4021

Brief History
Additional data on Scarborough, Maine can be found in  WikiPedia: the Free Encyclopedia .

Town Histories
Go to Archive.org to find published materials for this town.

Vital Records
"Scarboro, Cumberland, Maine computer printout : births or christenings, 1755-1875" is available to browse online at Family Search.. The Scarboro records are alphabetical and begin at image 375 and continue to page. It contains 2,289 names.

"Scarborough - Town and vital records, 1681-1893 (1908)" are available online at Family Search. Four of the image sets are searchable and one is browseable.

Obituaries - Scarborough Historical Society - See Index and Images of Obituaries for instructions.

Churches
Marriage records, Second Congregational Church, Scarboro, Maine, 1729-1800 - Digital Version on Family Search.

Land Records
Documents related to the ownership of real estate are recorded at the Registry of Deeds. Scarborough land records are included with Cumberland County and are available online for searching, viewing, and download at LandRecords.Com.

Town of Scarborough Annual Reports
Town Reports can be a marvelous resource to learn about various individuals within the town. Sections of the Town Annual Reports typically include bills paid for building roads and bridges, expenses for the poor, and the superintendent of schools report, which includes names of teachers, where they taught, and occasionally the names of students. Reports have been scanned, OCRed, and are available at. Digital Maine - Scarborough Books. Annual Reports available at Digital Maine include various years from 1854 to 1893.

Scarborough Tax Valuation Ledgers
Tax Valuation ledgers provide information regarding property owners (property tax) and voters (poll tax).

1841 Tax Valuation Ledger - Digital Maine.

1875 Tax Valuation Ledger - Digital Maine

Newspapers
The Scarborough Public Library has a limited online collection of Scarborough newspapers, including:


 * Scarborough Leader (1995-2018)
 * Southern Forecaster (2003-2018)
 * Current (2001-2016)
 * Sun Times (1989-1993)
 * Forecaster (Southern Edition) (2002-2003)
 * Scarborough News Review (1978-79)
 * Cumberland County (2009)

Libraries and Historical Societies
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum

Scarborough Public Library