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Maine -- Genealogy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred C. Knight genealogical data

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 385
Scope and Content note

Birth, death and marriage data relating to members of the Knight family in Maine.

Dates: ca. 1980

Barbara Bardeen Cobb genealogical collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4139
Scope and Content note

Genealogy research including charts, internet printouts, pages from books (photocopies), and original documents, such as death certificates, Bible records, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorial cards, and correspondence. Includes photocopies of original documents. Mostly Maine ancestors and names, including Banks, Webster, Donnell, Young, Bradbury, and Wheelwright.

Dates: 1907 - 2017

Bickford family genealogy collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4310
Scope and Content note This collection documents Mahlon Bickford's research into the Bickford family genealogy, much of which was used to publish the Bickford newsletter. Contents include correspondence, notes, family trees, vital and property records, legal documents, newsletters, news clippings, photographs, negatives, posters, and a ledger. The collection includes biographical and genealogical information on individuals, families, and geographical groups, as well as...
Dates: 1782 - 2024; Majority of material found within 1988 - 2024

Clifford N. Carver papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 289
Scope and Content note

Correspondence and genealogical data containing lists of vessels built in the Carver, Merrithew and McGilvery yards of Searsport, Maine, as well as lists of Searsport captains and their vessels.

Dates: ca. 1930

Ella Fannie York Craig papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 252
Scope and Content note

Correspondence, newspaper clippings and notes relating to the ancestry of Ella F. Craig, including the Gilbert, Hamlin, Robbins, Williamson, and York families, and includes allied families.

Dates: 1893 - 1938

Eveleth family genealogical papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 119
Scope and Content note

Genealogical papers of the Eveleth family and the related lines of the Davis, Stevens, True, Bailey and Woodford families, compiled by Ellen Lolita Eveleth. Includes letters, newspaper clippings, printed material, manuscript notes, and photographs of Eveleth and Woodford family members. The family, in this collection, dates back to the 1600s.

Dates: 1895 - 1972

Glenn Skillin papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4317
Scope and Content note

This collection houses the personal and research papers of Glenn Skillin, documenting his life, relationships, genealogical research of the Skillin family, and research conducted for his book A bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820. Contents include correspondence, notes, writings, reports, vital records, genealogical data and charts, publications, news clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs.

Dates: 1789 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1930 - 2022

Goold family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2996
Scope and Content note This collection contains business and personal papers of the Goold family of Windham and Portland, Maine, from 1751-1946. Some larger items are included, such as tax ledgers, day books, pocket diaries and a broadside. The majority of the papers belong to Nathan Goold, born 1778, however the collection contains a much larger cast of characters, whose relationships are described in the Biographical note. Other families included in the collection are the Gowens and the Clarks, whose daughters...
Dates: 1751 - 1946

Marion L. Dunn genealogical papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 356
Scope and Content note

Genealogical data on the Heald, Fairbrother, Quint, Spencer, Witham and Young families, as well as considerable material including census data on other families in the towns of Bancroft, Danforth, Haynesville, Orient, and Weston.

Dates: ca. 1970

Moody family genealogical research

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4171
Scope and Content note

Notebooks of manuscript genealogical notes, which includes newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1916 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1958