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Cumberland County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

CUMBERLAND COUNTY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY
(in Bangor Room unless otherwise stated)

Directories

East suburban directory : for Falmouth, Cumberland, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth, Harpswell--Bailey and Orr's Islands, Maine, Portland, Me.: Clark-Delano Co 974.19.P8.32 1909

Northern suburban directory of Greater Portland, Maine, Portland, Me.: Tower Publishing Co, 1982-  974.19.P8.10A 1982


General

The York, Cumberland & Lincoln almanack, for the year of Christian æra, Portland : Printed and sold by Thomas B. Wait, 1788   529.5 .W134w 1792 - Cage

Biographical review: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Cumberland County, Maine.  Publisher Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1896   920.B52bc

Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford). History of Cumberland Co., Maine. With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Philadelphia, Everts & Peck, 1880   974.19.3

Index to death notices : Jenks's Portland gazette, 1798-1806, Danville, Me. (PO Box 152, Danville 04223) : D.C. Young, c1983- Edition 1st ed. limited  929.37419.Y84i v.1

First Parish Church (Portland, Me.), ... Baptisms and admission from the records of First church in Falmouth, now Portland, Maine. Portland, Me., Maine genealogical society, 1898   974 .19 .P8 .11

Ridlon, G. T. (Gideon Tibbetts).  Saco Valley settlements and families : historical, biographical, genealogical, traditional, and legendary, Portland, Me.: The Author, 1895  974.19.4

Old times: a magazine devoted to the preservation and publication of documents relating to the early history of North Yarmouth, Maine. Including as far as possible, any incidents worthy of record relative to the towns of Harpswell, Freeport, Pownal, Cumberland and Yarmouth. All offshoots of the old town. Also genealogical records of the principal families and biographical sketches of the most distinguished residents of the town, Yarmouth, Me., 1877-84  974.19.N8.1 v.1-8

Sweetser, Phyllis Sturdivant. Cumberland, Maine in four centuries, Cumberland, Me.: The Town of Cumberland, 1976  974.19.C8, .1


Maps

Beers, F. W. (Frederick W.).  The old maps of rural Cumberland County, Maine, Fryeburg, Me.: Saco Valley Printing, c1979  912.7419.O44ol


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: 

State of Maine Census for 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1920 

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 Cumberland Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for Cumberland County

Cemetery Records Online for Cumberland County

Atlas for Cumberland County

Find A Grave for Cumberland County


Census Information

USGEN WEB U S Gen Web - to view some census materials


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