Skip Maine state header navigation

Agencies | Online Services | Help

Skip First Level Navigation | Skip All Navigation

Home > Genealogy > What to do - if you can't get to the Archives

What to Do?

If you can't get to the Archives during regular business hours!

Visit the Maine State Library in the other wing of the Cultural building. They have a great amount of published material such as family and town histories, cemetery records and much more.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) have microfilmed most of Maine town records of birth, marriage, and death from before 1892. They have research facilities throughout the world where these records can be obtained.

Call, write or visit the town or city clerks' offices holding vital records you need.

Records of birth, marriage, and death from 1923 to the present can be obtained from the Office of Vital Records in the Department of Human Services across the street from the Cultural Building. Telephone: 287-3181.

Catholic records of baptism, marriage, and death can often be found at the local parishes.

Call, write or visit county Registries of Deeds and/or Probate for records of land transactions, wills, adoptions, etc.

Use the Internet from home, your local or regional library, or the Maine State Library to access

  • Selected Maine State Archives genealogical resources
  • Selected Maine Court Records
  • Maine Genealogical Resources using various search services

    For a specific record of birth, marriage, or death between the years 1892 and 1922 only , call, write, or E-mail the Archives. Send $6 for a single non-certified copy; $10 for a certified copy. This fee includes our search charge and is not refundable.

    The regional office of the National Archives Northeast Region (380 Trapelo Road, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154; 617-647-8745) has material useful to the genealogist, such as census listings.

 

    If you are just starting your family research:

    Plan your research by contacting relatives and others for family information they may have.

    Organize your research, learn strategies from publications, clubs, and others who have done the same type of research.

    Obtain our publication "Genealogical Resources in the Maine State Archives"

     

    Page updated December 8, 2005