York County Resources

BOOKS AND OTHER RESOURCES 
FOUND AT THE BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ON

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

Directories

Chadbourne, Ava Harriet. Maine place names and the peopling of its towns: York; foreword by Elizabeth Ring. Illustrated county ed. Freeport, Me.: Bond Wheelwright, 1971. 974.108.C344my

General

Bartlett, Ralph Sylvester. The history of York county, Maine, and a rambling narrative about the town of Eliot and its mother-town old Kittery with personal reminiscences; an address delivered by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett at exercises held in Eliot, Maine, August 29, 1936, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of York county in the province of Maine. [Boston Jerome press] c1938.   974.19.18

The York, Cumberland & Lincoln almanack, for the year of Christian æra / N. Lowe. Portland: Printed and sold by Thomas B. Wait, 1788-   Cage 529.5.W134w 1792 

 Index to death notices: Jenks's Portland gazette, 1798-1806 / compiled by David Colby Young.1st ed. limited. Danville, Me. (PO Box 152, Danville 04223): D.C. Young, c1983-  929.37419.Y84i v.1 c.2 

Maine Probate abstracts / by John Eldridge Frost. Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1991.  929.3741.F929m v.1-2 

Marriage returns of York County, Maine prior to 1892 / edited by John Eldridge Frost and Joseph Crook Anderson, II. Camden, Me.: Picton Press, c1993.  929.1741 .Y82m 

The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some related families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich and Hampton. By David W. Hoyt. Providence, R.I. [Snow & Farnham, printers] 1897-1917.  974.45.S17.1 v.1-3 

Perkins, Esselyn Gilman.  History of Ogunquit Village: with many interesting facts of more recent interest. Portland, Me.: Falmouth Pub. House, c1951.  974.19.O3.1 

Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford).  History of York County, Maine. With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia, Everts & Peck, 1880.  974.19.8 

Province and courts of Maine. Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1928-  974.102.M284p v.1-6 

  Saco Valley settlements and families: historical, biographical, genealogical, traditional, and legendary / by G. T. Ridlon, Sr. Portland, Me.,  1895.  974.19.4 

Mountfort, Julia Ann Dyke.  Witch trot land; being a bit about the mother of Maine, York county, or Yorkshire, or New Somersetshire, from which all Maine counties came. Of her hopes and dreams and heart-breaks, and of the first incorporated English city in America. By a couple of witches (Anne Mountfort) [and] (Katherine Marshall) [Damariscotta, Me., Lincoln county news, 1937]   974.19.17 

York County (Me.). Register of Deeds. York deeds. 1642-1737. Portland, J. T. Hull, ca. 1900. v. 1-18.   974.102.Y8 v.1-18 

Taylor, Helen V. A time to recall: the delights of a Maine childhood; drawings by Erik Blegvad. New York: Norton, c1963.  974.108.T214t 

Maine cemetery inscriptions: York County / Maine Old Cemetery Association. Camden, Me.: Picton Press, c1995.  REF 929.5 .M284mc vol.1-4 

Maps

  Atlas of York County, Maine. From actual surveys, drawn and published by Sanford, Everts & Co. Philadelphia, 1872.   912.7419.S22 

The old maps of York County, Maine, in 1872. Fryeburg, Me.: Saco Valley Printing, c1980.   912.7419.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 York Genealogy Research

USGEN WEB for York County

Cemetery Records Online for York County

Atlas for York County 1895

Find A Grave for York County

York 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, Waldo, and Washington Counties.