Listed below are more books, periodicals, and other media already digitized and made available by other organizations. Be sure to visit our Learn page for links to additional research resources specific to People and Places.
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Historical Researches of Gouldsboro Maine
In 1904, the Daughters of Liberty published a compilation of local history called Historical Researches of Gouldsboro Maine, which is now Out of Print. However, the entire volume is available online and free at HathiTrust.
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The Peninsula Gazette
Author Bernice Richmond wrote a newsletter, The Peninsula Gazette, from 1954 through 1960 about daily life on the Schoodic Peninsula. She recorded day to day activities and interviewed older residents for their memories of earlier history. These volumes are a fascinating chronicle of life on the Schoodic Peninsula during the first half of the 20th century. Thanks to the Winter Harbor Historical Society for making this available through their site on Maine Memory Network.
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Post cards and more at PMM
The collection of post cards from the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co is a fantastic place to search for images of people and places. This extensive collection at the Penobscot Marine Museum includes more than 50,000 glass plate and film negatives made by photographers of a “real photo” postcard manufacturer in Belfast which covers Maine as well as the rest of New England and Upstate New York. Be sure to browse images by Town name and look through the Atlantic Fishermen as well as Maine Sardine Council collections too.
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Family Search
This one is well known as a repository for all sorts of genealogical resources. But recently, digitized versions of their microfilms of Gouldsboro’s Town and Vital Records (1781-1898) were made available on FamilySearch.org if you set up a free account. Here’s a more detailed description of their digitization work. Like the cleaner, high-resolution versions of the same volumes that GHS volunteers produced in 2021, they are handwritten, so not searchable. However they are chronological, so the viewer can to skip through the volumes to find the time period of interest. Please Note: when GHS volunteers rescanned these Records, we found all but the first 13 pages that were recorded on microfilm in 1955. Fortunately, thanks to those original microfilms, these records are still available.
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Maine Newspaper Project
The Maine Newspaper Project is a collaborative effort led by the Maine State Library to facilitate digitization of Maine’s historical newspapers. The project involves imaging of original newsprint, microfilm scanning, and creation of a searchable database of Maine newspaper holdings. Newspapers in the growing collection are listed by county, and already includes papers from Bar Harbor as well as The Ellsworth American.
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Hancock County Registry of Deeds
The Registry of Deeds is where all transactions regarding Real Property are recorded. Deeds, mortgages, liens, bankruptcies, leases, plan maps and many other kinds of documents regarding the title and ownership of real estate are recorded as permanent official records. The registry also houses a small library and atlases of the cities and towns located within Hancock County. This information is all public record and much of it is searchable and available free online.
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Maine Memory Network
The Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 270 organizations from across Maine.