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Odds and Ends

August 21, 2017 | 12:08 pm
The Maine Register state yearbook and legislative manual (black books) can be a good source. They contain info on all the towns and plantations etc. starting in the 1800s. You can find the postmaster, town selectmen, school committee members, clergy, you name it. You can find out when the town came into being, name changes and when other towns were annexed etc.
Don’t just look under the counties and towns. Scan through the first part of the books also. You’ll find custom districts, immigration departments, lighthouse districts and public health dept. info and some of the employees listed. Hopefully you can find these books stashed somewhere in a library. Some or all probably can be found on line as well.
August 21, 2017 | 12:08 pm
Gleanings from the NEHGS e-newsletter…
Family Search will stop distribution of microfilm as of 1 Sept. 2017. The technology is becoming obsolete and they should be done digitizing the rest of their microfilms by 2020.
Reminder…the NEHGS is digitizing the sacramental records of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston from 1789-1900. That’s baptism, marriage, deaths, and more from150+ churches.
For those with Welsh ancestry… the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is putting on line 11,000and counting digitized drawings of Welsh landmarks.
A Revolutionary War era ledger was for sale on eBay. It’s now in the archive where it belongs. The sale was against New York law. Significant records have to be maintained, not sold. Apparently all states have records retention laws of different variations.
March 20, 2017 | 1:35 pm
I recently heard the last 30 seconds of an NPR broadcast about the Internet Archives at https://archive.org. I then goggled “internet archives” and you should see what’s there! It’s a nonprofit with over 284 billion web pages doing this.
There are Maine genealogy books, city directories, census records and you name it. Pick a state; pick the European libraries or the Library of Congress. You name it. I only went on to see if I could figure out how to use it and to look at the selections. I picked a book and looked page by page. Who knows what useful information might be found there.
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The Aroostook County Genealogical Society, a non-profit organization founded in 2003, is the society for everyone from the beginner to the most advanced family historian. The ACGS serves its members by:

Providing genealogical skills development through education information, publications, research assistance, and networking opportunities;
Promoting the highest standards of ethical reasearch principles and scholarly practices;
Establishing important links with other groups worldwide;
Providing depth and breadth of knowledge and opportunities for our members;
Creating programs to increase public awareness of opportunities to discover family history;
Promoting interest in the fascinating field of genealogy and family history.

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