Maine Archives and Libraries

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The following archives and libraries have collections or services helpful to researchers. One point to remember is that Maine was part of Massachusetts until 1819, and so some records in Massachusetts have information about people living in Maine before that date.

Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in Maine
Maine State Archives· Maine State Library· Maine Historical Society· Cutler Memorial Library (Farmington)· Allen County Public Library· New England Historic Genealogical Society· National Archives Northeast Region (Boston)

National Archives at Boston
National Archives at Boston 380 Trapelo Road Waltham, MA 02154 Telephone: 617-647-8100 E-mail: [mailto:boston.archives@nara.gov boston.archives@nara.gov] Website: archives.gov/northeast/boston/


 * The National Archives at Boston, Massachusetts has records for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont including several on-line databases.
 * Navy Records
 * Maritime Records
 * Post Civil War Tax Records
 * Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States
 * All U.S. federal censuses

New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston MA, for Maine includes great detail on many early families, unpublished family histories, and a large collection of town and county histories.

Maine State Archives
Maine State Archives State House Station 84 Augusta, ME 04333-0084 Telephone: 207-287-5795 Fax: 207-289-5739


 * A wiki article describing this collection is found at Maine State Archive Collections (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Libraries

 * Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow Street Bangor, ME 04401 Telephone: 207-947-8336 Fax 207-945-6694


 * University of Maine at Orono Raymond H. Fogler Library, Special Collections P.O. Box 5729 Orono, ME 04469-5729 Telephone: 207-581-1686 Fax: 207-581-1653

Reference Book
Public Record Repositories in Maine. 1976. Augusta, Maine: Maine State Archives, 1976. ; ;

Web Sites

 * D'Addezio - Maine Societies


 * GeneaSearch - Maine Genealogical and Historical Societies


 * Usgennet.org - on-line Historical and Genealogical Societies of Maine

A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Maine State Archive Collections (FamilySearch Historical Records)