Access to Town and Vital Records, Books, Photos, Maps, Videos, and More
GHS volunteers have been busy scanning items from our current collection as well as previously unavailable records, to make them accessible online, free to the public. To accomplish this, we have joined forces with The History Trust and the Maine State Library to make our digitized records available online to interested users. You’ll find much to discover here, and more items are being added every week!
Learn More About Gouldsboro’s Recently Digitized Town Records
There are 14 volumes of Vital/Town Records that have been digitized and will be accessible through the Maine State Library’s Digital Maine Repository . Links to each volume in the list below will be made active as they become available:
- Deaths 1892-1939
- Births 1892-1939
- Marriages Vol 1 1790-1866
- Marriages 1820-1890
- Marriages 1892-1939
- Marriage Intentions 1888-1898
- Marriage Intentions 1892-1927
- Town Records Vol 1 1801-1838
- Town Records Vol 2 1839-1868
- Town Records Vol 3 1869-1895
- Town Records Vol 4 1895-1910
- Town Records Vol 5 1911-1923
- Town Records Vol 6 1923-1928
- Town Records Vol 7 1928-1936
Keep in mind that the “Title” of the volume is what the bindery chose to call it when the original volumes were conserved and rebound in the 1990s and can be misleading. For example, Marriages Vol 1 1790-1866 is a compendium of all vital records of that time period. Similarly, Vital and Tax records are interspersed throughout the first 3 volumes of Town Records. Explanatory guides will accompany each volume in the catalogue.
Interested in family history, genealogy, property research? Be sure to visit our LEARN pages for additional research resources specific to People and Places.
The History Trust is a collaboration of more than a dozen organizations, including GHS, in coastal Maine’s Acadia region. Together we preserve and share our historical collections with anyone interested in the region’s rich history via Digital Archive (DA). Regardless of where they are housed, all of GHS’s digital resources will be catalogued on DA. Just type “Gouldsboro” into the search box at the top right of the page, to see what we have so far. Or enter the name of a place, a person, or other keyword and see what turns up.
The Digital Maine Repository (DMR) is a partnership of the Maine State Library, Maine State Archives, and community institutions around the state. DMR is working to make digital collections from all Maine cultural institutions freely accessible to the world. It hosts a variety of media and its Gouldsboro Collection includes Vital and Town records dating back to 1790, books, maps, and other genealogical materials.
Find a growing collection of previously recorded GHS Programs on our new YouTube channel. Each year’s new Program videos are released by December.
Gouldsboro’s story is told in many places. Here you will find links to more books, periodicals, data sources, and other media already digitized and made available by other organizations.