Category Archives: Maine

Maine State Archives launches online catalogue

The Maine State Archives has launched its first-ever catalogue of its holdings, via the online ArchivesSpace portal. For the first time in the Maine State Archives’ 56-year history, researchers can now search through the bureau’s listing of collections online to see … Continue reading

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University of Maine to create bilingual portal to access historical Franco American records from US and Canadian archives

A University of Maine initiative to create a first-ever bilingual portal to Franco American heritage records from archives in the United States and Canada has received a nearly $60,000 US grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The online, … Continue reading

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Looking for ancestors in all the weird places, including Maine State Prison

Sometimes our most elusive ancestors cannot be found because they are hiding in quirky collections, like the 1879 Reports of the Inspectors and Warden of the Maine State Prison and of the Physician and Chaplain, Also the Report of the … Continue reading

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French-Canadian migration to Maine

Genealogists who cannot find the whereabouts of their Quebec ancestors may want to look south in New England, especially Maine. In the Bangor Daily News, Juliana L’Heureux writes: “It was 100 years ago when the Old Canada Road from Quebec … Continue reading

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Obits, marriages and photos in online Brunswick, Maine index

When you learn about the new online index of Brunswick, Maine newspapers, you’re going to hope some of your ancestors settled in this historic mill town about 30 minutes north of Portland. Thanks to retired history teacher and historian Richard F. … Continue reading

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How to discover if your Canadian ancestor was an alien in Maine

The Alien Registration database on Digital Maine, the online library of Maine community and government archives, may delight some family historians who have been trying to figure out where their Canadian ancestors disappeared, especially those from New Brunswick and Quebec, … Continue reading

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Digitizing Maine’s earliest images

Good news for those of us with ancestors who lived in Maine. The Maine Historical Society has been awarded a $149,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize, catalogue and provide free online access through Maine … Continue reading

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Maine border town’s digitized newspapers may help Canadian genealogists

In response to the blog post, Historical Maine newspapers to be digitized, about the Maine State Library’s federal grant to digitize over 100,000 pages of historical newspapers, Peggy O’Kane from the library said the project includes collecting links to Maine … Continue reading

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Historical Maine newspapers to be digitized

The Maine State Library has received a $275,000 federal grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize over 100,000 pages of historical Maine newspapers. This is good news for many, including those of us who have ancestors who … Continue reading

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Canadian immigration to Maine, 1850 to 1940

Did some of your Canadian ancestors settle in Maine? To acquire an idea of where they may have settled or how many settled in a particular area, James Myall has produced an interactive map that shows Canadian migration patterns from … Continue reading

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