Androscoggin County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON
ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
(Androscoggin River Valley is also included in this finding aid)

Directories
Turner's Androscoggin County directory : of the inhabitants, institutions, manufacturing  establishments, business firms, societies, county census, etc., Auburn, Me.: A.R. Turner Pub. Co., 1898  974.18.1 v.3, v.4

Directory of Androscoggin County,  Auburn, Me. : Merrill & Webber, 1900  974.18.2 1914-15, 1922-25

General
History of Androscoggin County, Maine Publisher Boston, W.A. Fergusson, 1891 974.18.3

Chadbourne, Ava Harriet. Maine place names and the peopling of its towns : Franklin and Androscoggin Counties, Freeport, Me.: Bond Wheelwright Co., 1957 (County ed) 974.108.C344mf

Jones, Page Helm.  Evolution of a valley: the Androscoggin story. Publisher Canaan, N.H.: Phoenix Pub., [1975]  974.18.J723e

Maps
Sanford, Everts & Co.  Atlas and history of Androscoggin County, Maine, Publisher Philadelphia, 1873   912.7418.S224a (Folio)

The old maps of Androscoggin County, Maine in 1873, Fryeburg, Me.: Saco Printing, c1983   912.7418.O44o

Microfilm
United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890, Schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War: Maine. [microform], Washington: National Archives, 1948  F973.7441.A3 part 1 and part 2

Also available are censuses on microfilm: Census for 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1920 (not all counties available)

The indexes for these censuses are  located in the Microfilm Room for easy reference:

United States. Census Office. 1st census, 1790 Title Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790: Maine, Washington, Govt. Print Off., 1908  929.1741.U58
Maine 1800 territorial census index, Salt Lake City, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1979  929.3741.J137m 1800
Maine 1810 census index Publisher Bountiful, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1976  929.3741.J137m 1810
Maine 1820 census index Publisher Bountiful, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1976  929.3741.J137m 1820
Maine 1830 census index Publisher Bountiful, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1977  929.3741.J137m 1830
Maine 1840 census index Publisher Bountiful, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1978  929.3741.J137m 1840
Maine 1850 census index Publisher Bountiful, Utah : Accelerated Indexing Systems, c1978  929.3741.J137m 1850

Websites for Androscoggin Genealogy Research

• USGEN WEB for Androscoggin County

• Cemetery Records Online for Androscoggin County

• Androscoggin Historical Society

• USGEN WEB to view some census materials

Other Counties:
Aroostook, Cumberland, Franklin, Hancock, Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Oxford, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Sagadahoc, Somerset, Waldo, Washington and York Counties.