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Waldo County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

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


Directories

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

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

General

  History of the old towns, Norridgewock and Canaan, comprising Norridgewock, Canaan, Starks, Skowhegan, and Bloomfield, from their early settlement to the year 1849; including a sketch of the Abnakis Indians. By J. W. Hanson. Boston, 1849.  Vault 974.12.N7 .1 

Cummings, Mildred H. South. Solon: the story of a Meeting House / Drawings by Philip Bornarth. Skowhegan, Me.: South Solon Historical Society, 1959.   974.17.S6.3 

Somerset County in the world war, by Florence Waugh Danforth. [Lewiston, Me., Journal printshop and bindery, 1920?]   940.3741.D211s 

Waldo County (Me.) Marriage records of Waldo County, Maine prior to 1892 / transcribed by Elizabeth M. Mosher and Isabel Morse Maresh. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1990.   929.1741.W147m 

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

Waldo County: the way it was / Frank E. Claes., Camden, Me.: Down East Books, c1985.  974.15.13 

  Vital records of Monroe, Waldo County, Maine prior to 1892 / transcribed by Elizabeth M. Mosher. Camden, Maine: Picton Press, c1991.   974.15 .M75.1 

Maps

  Atlas of Somerset County, Maine / compiled, drawn, and published from official plans and actual surveys by George N. Colby & Co., assisted by H.E. Halfpenny [et al.] Houlton, Me., 1883.  912.7412.C672 

The Old maps of southern Somerset County, Maine in 1883. Fryeburg, Me.: Saco Valley Printing, c1989. On cover: The old roads, houses with family names, detail maps of villages and neighborhoods. "September 1989" Maps of southern Somerset County, Maine in 1883 as compiled by George N. Colby & Co. Includes index.  912.7412.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


Bangor Newspaper Index Located at the Back of the Bangor Room: Index of names, places, businesses, schools, and death, birth or marriage records.  Articles  are referenced to the specific day and page of a newspaper. Please ask for assistance at the reference desk or in the Bangor Room.

 


Websites for Waldo Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for Waldo County

Cemetery Records Online for Waldo County

Atlas for Waldo County 1895

Find A Grave for Waldo County

Waldo Historical Society

Census Information

S K Publications - To purchase 

USGEN WEB to view some census materials

State of Maine Resources


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