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Franklin County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

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


Directories

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

General 

  • General Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Oxford and Franklin counties, Maine Publisher Boston, Biographical review publishing company, 1897  920.B52b
  • "Paper talks" in Western Maine, [Hampden, Me.: Impact Publications], c1984 Edition 4th ed    974.17.21 (1992 - 2000 not all editions)
  • York, Vincent.  The Sandy River & its valley,  1976. ( Farmington, Me.: The Knowlton & McLeary Co.)   974.17.22

  • Franklin historical magazine Vol.1, no.1, April, 1881 : a magazine devoted to the history and topography of Franklin County  974.17.12

Maps

  • Hoar, Jay S. Small-town motion pictures, and other sketches of Franklin County, Maine. Publisher [Farmington, Me., Printed by Knowlton & McLeary Co.] 1969   974.17.18.

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 for a limited number of counties: 

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

  • The indexes for some of the censuses are  located in the Microfilm Room for easy reference


Websites for Franklin Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for Franklin County

Cemetery Records Online for Franklin County

Atlas for Franklin County

Census Information

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


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