Kennebec County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

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

Directories

Directory of Kennebec County: a complete compilation of all the inhabitants, institutions, manufacturing establishments, business firms, business, societies, etc, Auburn, Me.: Merrill & Webber, 1899  974.16.3

Chadbourne, Ava Harriet, Maine place names and the peopling of its towns:, Portland, Me., Bond Wheelwright [1957] Edition County edition  974.108.C344mk

General 

Nash, Charles E., The Indians of the Kennebec,  Hallowell, Me.: Valley Publishers, 1994  970.441.N171i

Marriner, Ernest Cummings,  Kennebec yesterdays, Waterville, Me.: Colby College Press, 1954  974.108.M349k c.3

Index to Kingsbury and Deyo's illustrated history of Kennebec County, Maine, Camden, Me.: Picton Press, c1996  974.16.4 INDEX

Webster, Henry Sewall,  Land titles in old Pittston, Gardiner, Me. : The Reporter-Journal Press,  1912 974.16.P6.1

Gardiner (Me.), Vital records of Gardiner, Maine, to the year 1892 ... , Gardiner, Me., The Reporter-Journal Press, 1914-15  974.16.G2.3 v.1 and v.2

Young, Elizabeth Keene and Keene, Benjamin Lewis, Marriage Notices from the Maine Farmer: 1833-1852. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995   929.3.Y8403m

Young, David C. and Keene, Benjamin Lewis, Abstracts of Death Notices (1833-1852) and Miscellaneous News Articles (1833-1924) from the Maine Farmer. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1997  929.3741.Y84

Maps

Halfpenny, H. E., Atlas of Kennebec County, Maine, Philadelphia: Caldwell & Halfpenny, 1879   912.7416.H13

The old maps of Kennebec County, Maine in 1879, Fryeburg, Me.: Saco Valley Printing, c1983   912.7416.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: 

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 Kennebec Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for Kennebec County

Cemetery Records Online for Kennebec County (Rootsweb)

Cemetery Records Online (Interment.com)

Atlas for Kennebec County

Kennebec Historical Society

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

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