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Hancock County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

HANCOCK COUNTY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY


Directories

Bacon, George F. (George Fox), Rockland, Belfast and vicinity : its representative business men and its points of interest, embracing Rockland, Belfast, Camden, Rockport, Bucksport, Ellsworth, Thomaston, Waldoboro, Warren, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, Newcastle. Newark, N.J., Glenwood publishing company, 1892  974.15.4

Biographical review, volume XXIX : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, Maine Publisher Boston : Biographical Review Publishing Co., 1898  920.B52bre

Chatto, Clarence I. Register of the towns of Sedgwick, Brooklin, Deer Isle, Stonington, and Isle au Haut, 1910. Publisher Brooklin, Me., Friend Memorial Public Library [c1972]  974.14.S3.3

General 

Preble, Myrtle.  Index to Old Hancock County families by William MacBeth Pierce, 1982  929.1741.P611o Index

Penobscot County (Me.), Abstracts of Penobscot County Maine probate records, 1816-1866 : including abstracts of probate records from Hancock County, 1790-1816, relating to that part of Hancock County set off as Penobscot County in 1816 Publisher Camden, Me. : Picton Press, c1990  REF 929.37413.A164a

Maps

 Colby (S.F.) & Co. Atlas of Hancock County, Maine; Ellsworth, Me., 1881, 912.7414.H13

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 Hancock Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for Hancock County

Atlas for Hancock County

Find A Grave for Hancock County

Census Information

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


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