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Knox County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

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


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

Directory of Knox County including Rockland, Rockport, Camden and Thomaston .. , Portland, Me.,: Fred L. Tower Co., 1929   974.15.7 1929/30

General

Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and Waldo counties, Maine, Boston  Biographical Review, 1897 920.B52br

Gould, Edward Kalloch, Colonel Mason Wheaton : revolutionary officer and captain of industry, Rockland, Maine: Courier-Gazette Press, [1932?]  B.W5596Gc

Fillmore, Robert B., Chronicles of Knox County, [Rockland, Me.?] 1922  974.15.1

Knox Family Information

B.K772 - Stacks Area

Henry Knox Papers (microfilm)- Bangor Room

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 Knox Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for Knox County

Cemetery Records Online for Knox County (Interment.com)

Cemetery Records Online (Rootsweb)

Atlas for Knox County 1895

Find A Grave for Knox County

USGEN WEB to view some census materials

 


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