Maine Bible Records

United States Maine  Bible Records

Start with the free Index to Early Bible Records (pre-1830; 17,000 entries).

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) collection contains several volumes of Bible records from Maine. The DAR collection is described in Maine Genealogy It is also partially indexed in:

Kirkham, E. Kay. An Index to Some of the Bibles and Family Records of the United States. Volume 2. Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, 1984. .

The Maine State Library also has a large collection of Bible records. Some Bible records are also included in the Maine Old Cemeteries Association records. See Maine Cemeteries for more information.

Copies, or abstracts of old family Bibles that are no longer known to exist, may survive in Revolutionary War Pension application files at NARA, Washington, D.C., which are available online at three commercial websites: Ancestry, Footnote, and Heritage Quest Online.

Web Sites

 * http://www.dar.org/
 * http://www.rootsweb.com/~meandrhs/taylor/bible/maine.html
 * http://genealogy.about.com/od/bibles/